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What the FUCK is this?

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Room service?

What the FUCK is this?

It's a friendly welcome note with a couple of spelling mistakes. So what?

The punctuation is just randomly sprinkled over the text. Apparently, full stops only happen at the end of paragraphs. Email conversations with the author might be painful.

Some people never manage to align written text accurately with the sentences that form in their heads. They can be very articulate verbally - that note sounds fine, if read aloud - but reading what they've typed can be painful. If there isn't a word for it - dysgraphia isn't the appropriate term - there should be. Mild case, in this example.

It made my eye twitch come back 😀

I don't really know why. As Bruce says, and I agree, the note sounds fine, and the person may be 'very articulate verbally'. I personally don't mind the spelling mistakes, and I don't find this note painful to read at all. I think the style (e.g., linking sentences by comma) is appropriate, and I'd feel welcomed to the hotel if I read it. But each to their own twitches. :)

I don't think we're entirely in agreement there, Oliver. You may be misinterpreting my use of the word "just". It's reasonably clear what they're saying, but their use of punctuation is so arbitrary that it requires a reread of each paragraph to be sure. The ellipsis is particularly annoying; I will pause when reading that in a way they almost certainly don't mean.

Sure--I only meant to indicate agreement with the two points I cited; I'm not bothered by the punctuation at all.

I've always thought of this 'has been' as a football thing. It's awful in anything slightly more formal...

"If you have seen or heard anything within regards to this incident..."

Ugh.

There isn't a single sentence which should avoid a sentence, preferably custodial. Violent assault upon a language, with aggravated punctuation abuse, is inexcusable when committed by orifices of the Law. I shall ring 101.

Your Honour, I cannot answer these charges as I do not understand them. Does the Court have access to a translator with knowledge of both Chimpanzee and English?

Seen at work. Crossover with the shitty gifts thread.

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That is quite good.

Mate sent me this from the back of an Aldi Yule log. Written by Aldi’s own brand AI.

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I don't know where this is but it's opposite a Superdrug somewhere in the UK. Edit: I've just been informed it's in Kingston Upon TEMS!

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Poor guide dogs, not even accepted by their own kind.

It's rough for them.

"No true Scottie" fallacy.

This might be a good place to demand an explanation for one of the weirdest words in English: 'pile'. I mean you have lots of words meaning almost the same thing which makes English a more nuanced and complex language than for example Swedish. And then there's the word 'pile' meaning either a type of sweater, distended veins around your anus or a pointy piece of wood to hammer into the ground. Or a pile of all three.

Blame the Romans. The Latin words for a hair, a spear and a pillar all start with "pil". Well, that doesn't explain heap, which I think was us finding a new usage related to the pillar/pile idea.

It's also the thickness of a carpet.

England and the UK in general has been invaded by forrins for millennia and has at least five indigenous languages and countless dialects. All these different influences have given us English, innit?

You making fun of my lovely Norman Pile mixte ?

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