Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> There are two things that irritate me quite a lot when people write
> prose, especially online:
>
>   1: When, in the middle of a longer sentence, they start writing something
> in parentheses, but never close them. Sometimes it's confusing and hard to
> guess where the thing in parentheses is supposed to end.
>
>   2: When people write something like: "Two points: Firstly, ..." but then
> they never write "Secondly, ..." or anything like that anywhere in the text.
> Thus it's hard to see what the *other* point they are making is.
>
>   Yeah, minor things, but...
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

FIVE THINGS THAT IRRITATE ME:

1. EXCESSIVE CAPITALIZATION

B. PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THAT A PREPOSITION IS NOT WHAT ONE SHOULD END A SENTENCE
WITH.

III. NIT-PICKING ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S WRITING STYLE

FOUR: PEOPLE NOT FINISHING WHAT THEY START.

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