i have had this argument many times playing online games ,if you annoy someone and the argument gets heated
more often than not the grammar nazi is unleashed ,i dont pretend to know punctuation as well as i should
and to be honest feel like a faker using it.

being a take the path of least resistance sort of person ive always thought it as obvious and unnecassery unless
technical accuracy is required ,in which case it is words that need adding not squiggly lines.

let's eat, grandma

let's eat, grandma!
a little bit of common sense ,and keeping things in context with the subject matter is obviously to hard for some people and they need their hand held through every sentence!

i put it to the grammar police it is there deficiancy not mine.

ps as stated earlier i am not good with punctuation and have probably made many mistakes so please dont point them out lol



edited as i thought i may have got the wrong end of the stick ,apparently i did punctuation comes under syntax not semantics .my bad

Semantics usually turns into pedantry.

Yes, semantics can play their part in a debate... But it seems that a lot of people don't know the difference between the two and misuse both. Which ultimately ends up taking away from the overall context of the original subject under discussion/debate.

It seems to be a common occurrence, particularly with online forum threads.

By the time you hit the 3rd or 4th page, barely any of the original topic is under discussion anymore and, instead, it ends up becoming a debate over circular semantics laced in pedantry.