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One of my latest questions got as first comment : "Please use English punctuation when writing in English." Certainly polite but a bit jarring as a non-native
by Ixio 7y ago
One of my latest questions got as first comment : "Please use English punctuation when writing in English."
Certainly polite but a bit jarring as a non-native speaker that feels fluent. Also a bit nonsensically-bureaucratic : I made the mistake because I didn't know any better, after the comment I still couldn't correct the mistake because I still didn't know any better, I wasn't even sure what rule of punctuation I had wronged.
I would've preferred a direct edit instead of a comment prompting though I guess that can be seen as worse by some people.
- Symbiote 7y ago> ... nonsensically-bureaucratic : I ... Maybe you put a space before a colon, and the eagle-eyed moderator spotted it :-) (English rarely has a space before a punctuation mark — except for a dash in British usage. Americans—I think—do this.)
- tsukurimashou 7y agoYeah exactly, in French for example you put a space before a colon, a question mark, exclamation mark, while in English you don't, it is quite hard to spot for a lot of people.