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It was 15 euros earlier today, what happened? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by andrr_464@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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[-] fristislurper@feddit.nl 41 points 2 years ago

Please please please use punctuation.

[-] crate_of_mice@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

People in the UK can't afford punctuation anymore

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

I think they are using shitty speech-to-text software that does not do punctuation.

FTFY:

That's US inflation, maybe – but LJ lives in the UK and I can tell you: it's a lot worse than that for us. The Bank of England says a certain inflation rate that isn't that high (like 30% over the last year) but that's a lie. It feels like the cost of everything, including food, has at least tripled over the last year or two, maybe more. Sync at its end was £5 and hadn't gone up in a few years, so if you triple that you get £15 – which, yeah, is below £20 by a quarter – but Sync4Reddit lasted 10 years before it died only ‘cause of Reddit. I don't think that's a bad price to pay for a lifetime of adless Sync. Sync is LJ’s job so it's only natural the price is gonna go up with food going up this much. £20 for 10 years or more of updates for an app I use constantly isn't a bad deal.

[-] phuntis@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 points 2 years ago

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

I think you’re using bad speech-to-text software. There are alternatives with good “AI” auto-punctuation based on your tone of speech.

[-] phuntis@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 points 2 years ago

no I'm writing by hand I just hate punctuation

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

You never read any punctuation-free text by anyone else, did you?

[-] phuntis@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have read punctuation free text and it never bothered me it's perfectly readable all of those examples you gave are intentionally ambiguous sentences if a sentence is ambiguous without punctuation it's poorly written

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Well, you used “us” and “us” close to one another, and one of them referred to the United States and the other was a pronoun. It took several reads to make sure I rewrote it correctly in my other comment. I am pretty sure you're not being considerate about how “unambiguous” your sentences are without capitalisation & punctuation, and even if they were, they take significantly longer to read. As a person who became proficient in English as their second language, I am baffled by how frequently natives botch their national heritage.