MVS posting standards:Sentences, Paragraphs, Punctuation, No text talk Please

[matthew1]

Just because someone says "did you ceck the upper motor mount" on an 850 t5, and you know that 80% of people know that, please try not to cone back with "wadda ya think i am, a idiot??? I'm sure this is covered under etiquette somewhere too.

It is. There's a link to the MVS Volvo Forum Rules at the top of every forum page... "Forum Rules".

I am also available to translate to and from French

Thank you. That means we've got Spanish and French covered. Although the Spanish translation offer by Al and Chopperfreak has not been used much AFAIK.

Any rules against smileys?

Never use them!

[SHAKAMAMBUTU89]

Oh man! I didn't know about "lol" etc not being allowed. Sorry about that.

From now on I will make sure i do some research before I past a new topic.

Cheers

[matthew1]

It's not so much the syntax as it is the message. If a "lol" improves the message, use it. If it doesn't, don't use it.

[jblackburn]

If I ever see anyone use the word "hella" again, I will instantly delete your post.

[steve850]

JLB - excuse my ignorance (seriuosly...) hella? In what context? I'm honestly not trying to be obtuse... I only know it as a brand of fog/driving light....

[jblackburn]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hella

Unfortunately it's made its way to this coast too...

[steve850]

Ahhh.... As in helluvalot for those of us who are of a certain age. Well, I guarantee that you won't hear it from me (although I once swore I'd never type 'dunno', and I did the other day, but in all fairness I was texting my 21 year old.)

But seriously, it does take some effort to remember to use real, entire words - for me at least. I work in IT and have a tendency to use a lot of shorthand; and I still see a lot of posts here with details missing, the most common one being mileage! Folks, don't ask if you think you're struts need changing if we don't know the mileage - and kilometrage for Canadian (and other) cars.

[billofdurham]

I haven't seen nor heard that one in the UK. Hopefully it sank crossing the pond. However, my friend, who is a Hella agent, is taking down all his signs so Justin doesn't delete him!!

Bill.

[SnowmanPA]

Howdy!

I just found this forum the other day when I was researching a timing belt replacement on my (soon to be purchased) 2003 S60. Then I saw this post about proper english and I thought this would be a great place to introduce myself and jump into the conversation.

Like a lot of the previous posters, I am constantly amazed at the apparent illiteracy that is rampant in our (American) society. I suspect that the people who post on this forum, for whom english is not their mother tongue, actually commit fewer grammatical errors than native english speakers. I presume that this is due to the fact that they are trying to utilize proper spelling and grammar, whereas there seems to be an entire generation of Americans who think "grammar" is a cracker.

At any rate, I'm very glad that I stumbled upon this forum and I look forward to sharing information with the members here.

Thanks!

Ted (aka SnowmanPA)
Mercer, PA

[Laird_Scooby]

Hi All,

besides a very quick intro here (i'll do a proper one when i find the relevant section) i'm with Bill on never having heard "hella" before and hoping it sank on it's way over the pond!

Bad English is a pet-hate of mine and as education is free (at least to a certain age), there's really no excuse for it these days. Poor spelling is sort of acceptable as we can't all be good at everything but even poor spellers can manage to string a sentence together correctly.
Some of my favourite pet-hates are people who say "pacific" when they mean specific, "absolutely" when they mean "yes" and as a generalisation, text speak although i'd have to confess to using things like LOL as they are now a fairly universally accepted abbreviation and "Laugh out loud" just doesn't have the same impact visually.

Please note i am not writing this to upset anybody, merely to express my opinion on poor English - it's not an attack on poor spellers, people with speech defects or anything along those lines.

On a more positive note, could i make a suggestion for those of us that speak English with different continental dialects i.e. American, English, Australian etc? Would there be a chance of doing a "parts translator" so everyone would know what we were talking about when for example an English person asked about a problem with his Anti-Roll Bars or an American asked about problems with his Sway Bars - not sure what the Australian is for those components but i'm hoping someone "down under" will enlighten me?
Maybe not the best example but you get the basics?

As for non-native English speakers, in general i have found most of them tend to be more grammatically correct but sometimes using slightly the wrong word for the situation. However the fact they are trying to do their best shouldn't be held against them. Let's face it, their English is invariably better than any effort i might muster in their language! One example i saw some time ago was along the lines of "My radio is unemployed" - what they actually meant was their radio didn't work but it caused a few smiles!