This is a learning site. Why would someone ask that I use proper punctuation, etc., when that is what I am learning?
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If you are an native English speaker, write correctly. This is also an English learning site. If you are learning Spanish, then use proper punctuation for that too. If you write sentences with improper grammar, you are just digging yourself a hole that will be hard to get out of. I see some people write things like, "q pasa?" When they should write, "Que pasa".
It is lazy to write without correct spelling, etc, just because it takes more work and thoughts.
Welcome to the forum, Coco.
If you fill out your profile and let us know what language(s) you are learning it would be much easier to answer your questions.
If you are fluent or advanced in English, use correct spelling, punctuation, etc. Same thing if you are fluent or advanced in Spanish.
Kat said:
It is lazy to write without correct spelling, etc.
Exactly.
Just to be provocative I am going to take the other side of this question. In the USA there are many "functionally illiterate people who can not read or write yet can speak either fairly well or very well. Then there are those who are fluent in English but have trouble with writing in English. It is estimated that as many as 40 million adults in the US cannot read or write (I personally believe it is much lower, maybe less than half of that)* yet I assume that they can talk and communicate ideas verbally, many can speak fluently. Then when you consider non native speakers from other countries you have a vast population with less than college level reading and writing skills.
So by the SD policies these people are not welcome here. I don't agree with that. If we are a Spanish and ENGLISH learning site then we should be here to help this group as well. As long as the question can be understood it should be responded to with an answer along with help with both languages spelling and grammar. After all the purpose of language is communication and most communication is verbal not written.
Having said all this, it does not forgive laziness and text speak. But an answer and request to use proper spelling and grammar is the correct response.
Just my opinion.
*Methodology for determining literacy vary greatly and I never trust statistics from a biased source.
We ask that people use proper punctuation because this is an English and Spanish learning site. There are people learning English here and we want them to learn the correct ways to write in English Therefore, spelling and punctuation is corrected so that the English learners do not get confused and so that they learn the correct rules of punctuation and capitalization. It is the same with the learners of Spanish. I am frequently corrected in my Spanish writings for these errors. And from time to time, I make an error in English spelling and capitalization and I am corrected. I invite all corrections and am very thankful for all the correctors here.
Because one of the ways to learn something is to do it? You won't learn how to use punctuation properly if you don't try.
Hello,
I agree with most of you and I have a suggestion if you don't mind. Some of us have the option to edit posts so if you know the correct spelling or punctuation, please don't close the thread in haste. Rather, correct it and try to answer the question if you can. I am talking about simple punctuation, capitalization and spelling errors here, and not the complete disregard of posting rules and butchery of the language.
Good questions with simple spelling mistakes are tolerable as I understand that some of us don't speak or write English and Spanish well. That's why we ask for help. What I find rather lazy and annoying is when someone asks for one word translations when we have three dictionaries available. All they have to do is click the translate tab.
Anyway, I do not speak English fluently so if you find mistakes in my spelling, grammar and punctuation, you're more than welcome to correct me. 
As Sanlee has already said: you are not alone in this site: others want to learn as well.
And most of them already understand that corrections are only beneficial.
It would get very confusing if nobody paid any attention to errors. It is a learning site and the primary purpose of this forum is L E A R N I N G.
I am in agreement with Mariana, in that the first thing I check,before asking someone to use proper punctuation, is their profile. You'd be shocked at how many list themselves as fluent in English, and then write a sentence like this;
i am interested in how i could find out how to learn to write in spanish can somebody help me cause id really like to know
I myself make many typos, and other mistakes, I recognize this. On the other hand when others, who claim to be fluent in English or Spanish, make the same fundamental punctuation errors, time and time again, I can only conclude that it is out of laziness, or they simply don't care enough about their first language, which makes me wonder about their capacity to learn a second. This is just my opinion.
