(09-21-2015, 01:34 PM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote: IMO, not putting quotations around your dialogue is the same as not caring where you've written there, their, or they're, regardless of the context. What might be a microscopic time-saver or simple laziness on the part of a writer does a disservice to those who would read what was written. If they can't bother at least appearing to be making an effort in the technical side of their writing, can the reader simply assume out of nowhere that for some reason the writer will put a greater effort into their actual storytelling and character development? I don't think so.
I would never judge the quality of a roleplayer on how they write, for me /what/ they write is far more important. I don't tend to notice the little things when it comes to grammar, I flat out never understood how to use the comma properly (We were taught both the old and the new way, at the same time. It was super confusing.) in school - I stick to "whenever I'd take a breath" and because of this I read things aloud when I post longer things like journal entries. I think a part of it is due to English being my second language, there's also some words I always misspell where I've only managed to unlearn the habit from a few words (I used to write stomach as "stomache", Sweden as Sweeden, I have a tendency to add e's where they don't belong) and I'm at a point now where it's really as good as it's going to get.Â
It doesn't mean I do not care about character development, storytelling and generally trying to make others participation in the RP as pleasant as mine - I don't rightfully know many people where you can draw a line between how much they care, and how they express themselves with signs. I'd encourage you to give people a second chance before you write them off, truly. But we all have our things and thoughts at the end of the day ^^Â
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It's very interesting to see peoples responses about it. I'm probably going to end up sticking with the quotation marks unless I am in a very small roleplay where the other parts do not do it, cause I do like to match the people around me as much as I can. But I also like the idea of consistency. It's also lead me to realize more and more things about my writing style that has changed versus when I got here, and when I started RPing five years ago - and this is, genuinely, the first time I've stopped up to think about what is happening.
