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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 4036852, member: 5798"] Sifaka, you know as well as I do that collectively, all of us have various degrees of command of the English language. That's not going to change. All of us were NOT English majors in college. Bad language or grammatical errors are a fact of life on any board (Lord knows I've made/make my share). When I read a comment, that contains errors or miscues, it doesn't bother me. [B]Posters are doing the best they can. [/B]Roll with the punches. I'm ALWAYS more interested in the gist of a comment, than its grammatical correctness. Live and let live. It will lower your blood pressure. ;) That said, [USER=10542]BfromCT[/USER] does raise some good points, i.e., [I]Fourth, many excellent [B]commentators use abbreviation or nicknames[/B] too often. Granted if you don’t know who Maya or Sue is, you haven’t been following UConn basketball that long, but still it would be easier if the first time someone is mentioned in a post that the person is identified clearly so that there can be no confusion. [/I] Visitors or newbies to the yard may not know who is referenced by the initials. I've read several comment that contained initials that left me in the dark. I had not idea who the OP was referencing. Don't assume everyone knows who you're referring to. Using their first and last names (for clarity) would be preferable. I try and never use initials for that reason. I don't want to lose anyone along the way. [/QUOTE]