• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
    12·
    5 days ago

    just to be safe i never use any punctuation at all that way there is no risk of any misunderstanding it has never caused me any problems

      • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
        8·
        5 days ago

        I’ll give you a hint: it was painfully hard for me to resist capitalizing the “I”.

        I wanted to write it in a way that actually would be misunderstood due to lack of punctuation, but it was too much of a cognitive load. In my native language it’s really easy: for example, the difference between “No, I’ll do it” and “I won’t do it” is just a comma. But in English it’s not that easy.

        • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          In my native language it’s really easy: for example, the difference between “No, I’ll do it” and “I won’t do it” is just a comma

          Can you elaborate on that? 🤔

          • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
            4·
            4 days ago

            Let’s say someone asks “did you check the thing?”

            In Hebrew, you can reply: “לא, אבדוק” meaning “no, I’ll check”.

            But if you drop the comma, it comes out as “לא אבדוק” meaning “I won’t check”.

            The negation of the verb is done by adding לא (“no”, or “not”) before the verb.