I like to read posts on CD but many I can't, I have a problem with long streams of detail that have no start and stop point.

I so wish that many posters would either use the space bar more or start another line.

A page full of words without any break, spacing or maybe paragraph makes my eyes dance.

I wonder how many other readers either skim read or just go straight over the posts that go on and on and on without a stop start line in them and subsequently miss out on what may be some very interesting views.

Me! Punctuation and paragraphs were invented for a reason.

Me too!  I have the greatest admiration for the people who take the time and effort to unpick such posts, to understand them, and to post sensible, interesting, and informative replies.

I hate it too.  My eyes start to cave in when there are no spaces anywhere.  I don't have a problem with long posts.  Often people with a problem like to make sure that they give enough information to us, and that's fine.  I don't mind if it's a dozen paragraphs.  And preferably with just a bit of effort with punctuation.

I also loathe text speak.  Keep it for your mobiles.  :-(

I read your subject header and thought your Royal Mail post was getting shredded!! Lol :-)

I just skim read the first few lines and then skip the rest of the post when there are no punctuation or paragraphs, they take too long to decipher.

I totally agree, I think one of the worst was a poster from France - a couple of years ago - who did the whole posts in one huge paragraph in Capitals it was virtually impossible to read!

I'm so glad I'm not the only one then.

It does make some posts rather disjointed when I have to pass over a large chunky post with no spacing's :(

If I see these kind of posts I don't read them

Same with spelling mistakes - the odd error is fine, but when posts are filled with them there is no excuse. There are spellcheckers (I have the Google one) which check as you type - simple, or it should be :) :)

>Same with spelling mistakes - the odd error is fine,

I admit that I used to be hot on spelling mistakes, but have learned not to be so picky since being on CD.  When in a hurry we often get typos, and we can all do that, however much we like the queen's english.  However, we do have dyslexic members, and they have taught me a lot. 

One such member writes very helpful and knowledgeable posts that add a lot to what we're about on CD.  So, spelled right or not, I find their posts very much worth reading.  (Oh yes, and they use paragraphs.)  :-)

My typing is dyslexic, for some reason my brain and  fingers don't sync.

I learnt to type on a manual typewriter, but never got very fast) and with poor eyesight I often post and then don't get side-tracked and don't edit in time :)

I find my tablet adds mistakes I haven't made,  and I don't always manage to see them if I'm short of time.  It drives me nuts sometimes.    If I'm on the keyboard,  I get so fast that my fingers go dyslexic,  but I usually catch that and correct it :-)

The posts with no punctuation and just blocks of text,  sometimes I just can't be bothered.  

I do think the least a person could do,  is separate the text into manageable chunks,  even if they can't punctuate.

Spellings don't bother me as much as using for example 'could of'  instead of 'could have',   effect instead of affect etc.   But then,  not everyone has a grammar school education,  and younger folk may not even have had a teacher who was capable of picking up spelling and grammar!

My issue is not with grammar or spelling it is simply that my eyes cannot follow a continuous line. My youngest son has the same issue, it has a name but I can't remember what it is.

Fi I wnated too I cuold raed ayntinhg taht wsa wrttien teh worng wya ruond,  it deosnt maettr in wihch odrer teh lttesr are writtien I can raed it but wehn trher is no spcanig tahts wehn I srtuggle.

I know it's mental but I can type the above without thinking and I can read the above without thinking but I can't read a long continuous post.

So for those of you that post in a long continuous style spare a thought for mad old bats like me that can't follow what you might be saying.

That's impressive Pinky - I can read that easily enough, but I couldn't type it without a lot of effort. :-)

> My issue is not with grammar or spelling it is simply that my eyes cannot follow a continuous line. My youngest son has the same issue, it has a name but I can't remember what it is.

Astigmatism.
I have it too :)

It makes reading lists difficult, I often have to trace the line along a menu with my finger, for instance. Otherwise the lines above and below all jump in and mess things up.

">Astigmatism.<br />I have it too :-)"

That sounds like the beastie :)

It's never ever caused me a problem with reading and writing, or even in work, except for the people that e-mail me in long continuous type.

I too actually have to run my finger along the type so as to allow me to follow it.

I do feel however that even without my personal oddity,  those who post without spacing's and paragraph do themselves a disservice as they put themselves up to being ignored as has be mentioned by many

>I find my tablet adds mistakes I haven't made

I'm smiling at that one.  :-)

Many years ago I got my first post where they had these new things called computers.    I  had never plugged one in, and had certainly never owned one.  I wasn't a fast typist, but my job entailed sending out a lot of letters, and being a government office, they expected queen's English.

Bear in mind that this was long before Windows.  You just switched on, got a black screen with a C prompt.  Does DOS sound right?  Anyway, I was sent on a one day course to learn how to cope with correspondence. 

The head man of the section walked in on my very first day at it!  Yikes!  He asked how things were going so I told him that I didn't like computers.  He asked why.   I replied "They do what I ask, not what I mean."  :-)

l">The head man of the section walked in on my very first day at it!  Yikes!  He asked how things were going so I told him that I didn't like computers.  He asked why.   I replied "They do what I ask, not what I mean."  :-)"

Loving that :)

>I replied "They do what I ask, not what I mean."  :-)

Must have been modelled on a husband ;)

> Must have been modelled on a husband

A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.
'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la Casa.'
'Pencil,' however, is masculine: 'el lapiz.'
A student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?'

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer' should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.

The men's group decided that 'computer' should definitely be of the feminine gender ('la computadora'), because:
No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and
As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your pay packet on accessories for it.

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine ('el computador'), because:
In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;
They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have got a better model.

The women won.

I've just read that one of the new "super computers" - the ones which learn and grow in intelligence, had the dictionary of Urban English added to its memory.
They had to remove a few words however...every time they asked it a question it answered back " Bullsh*t". :-)

"super computers" - the ones which learn and grow in intelligence,

It surely must be female then