Why do I see incomplete sentences?

[John Cinkoske]

Why do I see incomplete sentences in many of the threads on this forum?
It seems to be happening more often lately, but I've noticed it for the last couple of months. Some threads are not worth opening due to missing information. :crying:

[John Cinkoske]

In the 'Thoughts on Selling' thread below, four of the posts were incomplete sentences when I posted this inquiry. Now, they are all complete. And I haven't even had anything to drink! :cuss:

[Bill Murphy]

Public schools.

[Alfred Greeson]

Unfortunately, internet posts, cell phones, texts, etc. are quick and encourage bad writing habits and we join in without thinking. Remember when we could spell without needing spellcheck? Electronic devices help promote poor wording, spelling and bad punctuation. I don't think many of our kids have had the strict English teachers who know if we didn't learn to write correctly, we would never make it through freshman English at the university and they were right. It is just like the young cashiers who can't make change because they were never taught multiplication tables. Sorry, we old timers aren't smarter, we were just taught better and seeing it in the younger generation is sad and irritating. But, don't let on because we look like old grumps!

[edgarspencer]

I hate it when people start sentences like 'Was at the local gunshop...', 'Thinking about......., thoughts ?' Does it take that much longer to say 'I was at.....' ?

[Bruce Day]

I hate it when people start sentences like 'Was at the local gunshop...', 'Thinking about......., thoughts ?' Does it take that much longer to say 'I was at.....' ?


Now where was you at? I had to ax.

Greetings from the information superoptichighway.

[Jim DiSpagno]

Sometimes it just bees dat way

[Eric Estes]

It is too late. Some are already looking like "old grumps"....

On this site we have all types of people, from many varying backgrounds, with different levels of education, and using many different types of devices to participate. All bound together by a common passion. That is one of the things that makes this place so great.

Everyone has their pet peeves, I have mine, but come on. I thought this site was more inclusive than that folks. The grammar police should check their credentials at the door IMHO.

[scott kittredge]

it sounds like you want me to stop posting??:rotf:
scott

[Chuck Bishop]

I would just like it if posters would proof read their post before posting. Some of these posts aren't clear as to what the poster is saying or asking. You'll get more comments if the reader of your post can understand you.

[Paul Harm]

It seems pretty simple - if you don't like the way a person writes, click the back arrow and don't read it.

[Alfred Greeson]

We're o.k. We have a great forum and if I said I haven't found a great deal more than once when someones add should have been more complete or written better, I would be lying for sure. Like the "Old Parker shotgun" that turned out to be a really nice GH 16 ga. 0 frame. Didn't buy it but I did educate the little old lady who decided to keep it for her grandson. Yea, I still wish I had that gun!

[Kevin McCormack]

It's all Nash Buckingham's fault! When he tried to paraphrase Horace Miller's black MS dialect so white folks could read it, the contractions, apostrophes, semi-colons and quotation marks 'went viral." Linguistic scholars are still trying to decipher it, and some in the modern age adapted the approach to outdoor vernaculars as their style of writing as well! Some actually post on this forum; missing/incomplete sentences are only part of the irritating milieu, as are intentionally crude grammatical presentations of random thoughts. Edgar, I feel your pain!

[Steve Huffman]

OK ! Im guilty and will never be perfect at anything !

[greg conomos]

I think others, Samuel Clemens notably, were trying to paraphrase black dialect long before Nash Buckingham.

[Bill Murphy]

But Nash did it better, with ducks and shotguns in the mix. About 55 or 60 years ago, I went through a bibliography of William Faulkner works to attempt to find something about the outdoor background of the famous author, and possibly a "quail connection". I didn't find such a connection, so used my reading time perusing other authors. It seemed a waste of time to read the extensive works of a Mississippi writer without birds. I'm not embarrassed to say that I have not yet read a Faulkner work cover to cover.

[charlie cleveland]

bill you should at least read tom sawer and hukleberry finn...guaranteed to make you laugh...charlie

[greg conomos]

Some the really great authors...well, you know they're really good because you can't read all the way through one of their books and you can't understand what they're saying.

[Mark Ouellette]

I've read War and Peace twice but could no read the gibberish Nash Buckingham wrote. If you could and enjoyed it, good for you!

[Bruce Day]

I don't understand it either, spoken or written.

But Mark, I can hear the Buckinghamites stirring and readying the tar and feathers.

[Mark Ouellette]

That's okay Bruce. As always I speak my mind or say nothing. Telling lies to be accepted makes one a slave to others. Mark Zuckerburg and all Facebookie I am not.

I think I'd like to listen to Buckingham on an audio book while driving to a distant SxS rendezvous.

[Dean Romig]

I have a 4-cassette set of Gordon McQuarrie's Duck Hunters stories I'll send you Mark, if you would like to listen on a long ride or two... that is IF your vehicle's audio system accepts cassettes.





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[Jack Cronkhite]

would 8 track be okay ?

[Dean Romig]

Seriously Jack? :shock:





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[Mark Ouellette]

Okay guys, I Google searched for a De Shootingest audio book and found nothing.

A couple members with radio-host type voices could take on a fun project. Oh, it would be a lot of work but they would be spreading the magical and mystical ethos of Nash and a time long gone.