I understand you hate notepad, fair enough ; I despise it as well as aim. How about word ?

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Ah, I get it. You want me to hunt you down and gut you.
Just because a program comes with your OS doesn't mean you should use it. If a free program is out there that works and people love it, why not try it?

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THERE IS A MOTHERFUCKING SPACE AFTER COMMAS.

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Agreed. Space after commas or periods.

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And semicolons, colons, etc.

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I have a question about ellipsis. In one of my posts I have a part when some can't find the words, and starts to stutter. Later there is conversation on a telephone, and only one person can be heard.

I tried to express the stuttering, and the breaks in the phone conversation as good as I could, but I have the feeling, I couldn't do it properly.

How should I write such situations properly?

Beside this I would be happy about any help improving my English. Pointing out misstakes, etc.

Usally when it comes to a phone conversation, i write it like this if I only want to show one side of the conversation.

James answered the phone, ignoring the caller identification. "Hello? Oh, hi, mom. I'm good, you? No, no time, really. Maybe next month. Sure, I can try to do that. All right, goodbye."

Stuttering with forgotten/dropped words is best done as "She--she forgot," he froze, unsure of what to say, then began stuttering, "sh-she-she f-for-forgot th-the... um, um...."

Try mixing that up and see how it works for you.

Finding how you want to write something is looking at what you wrote, over and over until you realize how much you fucking suck, then going over it a few more times until it truly flows.

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https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/dictionaries/

Not working right now, but when it is, it's verra useful for Firefox users.

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In regards to the stuttering thing, is it permissable to use a Letter/Dash/Word form, so long as it isn't done more than a very few times a conversation? By that I mean p-placing the first letter of a word before a dash, then finishing the word immediately afterward, as above.

Personally, I've never had much use for grammatical niceties, provided that they don't interrupt the flow of a story. As a matter of fact, I sometimes omit proper grammer where it interrupts the flow of a conversation or rings wrong when read.

My writing style is fluid, and I can't be making side trips to look up every inane rule that the english speaking world has made up in the last eight hundred years. Plus I hate spell checkers and word processors. There's no reason for me to hate them, it's like I'm prejudiced against them as though they were some loathsome thing crawled from a pit.

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Stop using Telepathy you Bastard!

I find Strunk's The Elements of Style really helpful.

It helps to go back to the basics.

Loving Cole. RoFL.

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I am... a newb.

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wait. what?

LOCKED. FUCKING USELESS REPLIES.

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