Is it proper

[abu nuwas]

what do you mean the irony

usually i try to use all grammar or zero grammar bar an initial cap and a final period.

in feedback and other posts i don't have enough time to care, (sorry)

I am sure Leanne can speak for herself. However, I sense that there is a gulf between those for whom it is simply a part of written expression, whatever they write, and those for whom it is a rather painful 'bolt-on', to be used, if necessary in poetry or some formal writing, but otherwise dispensed with. I believe that this is self-perpetuating: the more used one becomes to grammarless text, the more normal it seems, and so it does not improve the ability to write well, in terms of grammar. Further, people who read badly written material on a regular basis, themselves learn bad habits, or unlearn good ones. Even I, I, Billy, have picked up a few spelling doubts over the years....

Presumably, we must all work with what we have-- but striving to improve on the grammar front seems just as worthy as doing so, on the poetry front. Otherwise, we may all say 'old dogs, new tricks', or, if we are young, go with the Germans 'Ich bin so'. And that would never do! (Pace, any German site-members....)

PS I suppose it is a certainty that I have written all sorts of errors here; it seems to be a special case of Sod's Law.