Asklemmy

informal contractions are simply informal just because. there’s no real reason to consider them informal or not standard other than arbitrary rules.

“You shouldn’t’ve done that.” “It couldn’t’ve been him!” “I might’ve done that if you asked.”

Passive voice is completely fine to use.

I'm perfectly fine with pretty loosey-goosey interpretations of when to use semi-colons. I realize that there is a specific use-case, but in reality it's just used for the most part as a sort of elongated comma; where the intention in the writing is to have a longer pause than a normal comma would.

And I'm absolutely fine with that. No one is really clear on the real semi-colon usage anyway. I'm relatively sure that the last sentance in the previous paragraph is the actual correct usage technically, but who knows? And more importantly, who cares?

abbreviations. it doesn't save any meaningful time. it only prompts questions for clarification because people don't define the abbreviation prior to using it throughout their post. plus since everything is being abbreviated out of laziness, the same abbreviations get used for multiple things which just adds additional confusions.

What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?

Ending a sentence on a preposition :3c

I do not like the way that unspaced em dashes look. More generally I don't think that having distinct em and en dashes is actually useful anyway, you can absolutely just use an en dash in either case with absolutely no loss of clarity or readability, but I do need to use em dashes for some work writing so I have a key on my keyboard for it and use it semi-regularly. Whenever I use an em dash outside of a professional context I space it. So, "he's coming next Monday — the 6th, that is — some time in the morning," as opposed to the more broadly-recommended, "he's coming next Monday—the 6th, that is—some time in the morning."

I have absolutely no reason for this other than subjective aesthetic preferences, but it has coincidentally become somewhat useful recently. LLMs notoriously use em dashes far more than humans but consistently use them unspaced, so it's a sort of mild defence against anything I write looking LLM-generated

In German there's the saying "macht Sinn", which is wrong since it's just a direct translation of "makes sense". Correct would be "ergibt Sinn", in English "results in sense", but I don't care, "macht Sinn" rolls off the tongue easier.

I dont care about capitalizations, apostrophes, or if you shorthand words like tho as long as i can understand what youre saying from the context

Sometimes a sentence ending with a proposition just sounds better.

All of them, unless there's need to be accurate.

aluminum

Being excessively prescriptive or nitpicky about the prohibition on ending sentences on a preposition is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.

'irregardless' and improper 'begs the question' are both fine.

Im over spellcheck on phones. I'll look the other way when something is typed all wacky from a phone.

If punctuation isn't on your keyboard then it can't be that important. All dashes are the same.

I don't even appreciate that Markdown turns double-dash into one long dash. The distinction in print is a twee relic of uptight style guides, and the minute gradations do not exist in handwritten text. If you intend it as a pause-please, put spaces around it, or it looks dumb. Like that.

using clauses instead of full sentences, with proper punctuation;