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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2008-03-01 10:07 pm
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[identity profile] kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com 2008-03-02 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
I think there is probably quite a bit of #1, as well as perhaps, not actually new to the internets, but just really technologically challenged, so they don't know how to turn off smart quotes or they don't realise that on a monitor paragraphs need line breaks separating them to make them legible.

But I think it's mainly #2. I mean, if someone doesn't realise that sentences need commas and periods to make them readable, why would they be able to tell what formatting would be bad or good?