Philip Marlowe
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I'm no Shakespeare but I wanted to offer my opinion on writing to some aspiring entrepreneurs (and reveal by own bias).
I generally break writing online (so, e-mail, forum posts, etc.) down into two buckets: those with punctuation and those without. It's that simple. I'm not the grammar police and couldn't be if I tried but a lack of punctuation kills me.
It's probably not fair, but when I see a post that says: "hey is my idea fastlane thx", I immediately skip it, and not even because of the question. The person couldn't even find time to use the shift key or a question mark.
Am I alone on this one?
Similarly, if I'm reading a thread and the response looks similar to the above, I automatically skip what has been written. And maybe it's gold!
Anyway, take the above as you would any anonymous comment on the Internet but I thought it was worth sharing as in my brief time here I've seen a distinct difference in the quality of certain posts. If your questions aren't getting answered, maybe the structure and style of your prose is to blame?
-PM
P.S. - And proper punctuation shouldn't necessarily be impacted if English is your second language, so that's definitely not what I'm getting at.
I generally break writing online (so, e-mail, forum posts, etc.) down into two buckets: those with punctuation and those without. It's that simple. I'm not the grammar police and couldn't be if I tried but a lack of punctuation kills me.
It's probably not fair, but when I see a post that says: "hey is my idea fastlane thx", I immediately skip it, and not even because of the question. The person couldn't even find time to use the shift key or a question mark.
Am I alone on this one?
Similarly, if I'm reading a thread and the response looks similar to the above, I automatically skip what has been written. And maybe it's gold!
Anyway, take the above as you would any anonymous comment on the Internet but I thought it was worth sharing as in my brief time here I've seen a distinct difference in the quality of certain posts. If your questions aren't getting answered, maybe the structure and style of your prose is to blame?
-PM
P.S. - And proper punctuation shouldn't necessarily be impacted if English is your second language, so that's definitely not what I'm getting at.
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