I love full stops. I love how they illustrate where - if a sentence is spoken - a natural pause lies at the end of a thought or idea. I also appreciate full stops in long paragraphs, as they break all those thoughts into manageable chunks. The poster above, however, doesn't seem to recognise the distinction between a comma and a full stop. I also like capital letters, which both the above poster and the below have only a passing acquaintance with.
Sentence. Full stop. Capital letter=new sentence. Full stop. Is there a complexity here I'm not aware of? I don't believe it to be all the result of the use of mobile phones, because some brackets have snuck into this one. And if you can put in a comma, you can put in an apostrophe (a 'teachers' assistant? Really?).
The scary bit is that examples like this are the rule - not the exception.
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