Simpson's Paradox

I understand that grammar and punctuation are optional on the internet, but isn’t forbidding the use of punctuation taking it a bit too far?

eLong.net is breaking this English teacher’s heart.

Stick and I decided to go to Inner Mongolia for a few days for the National Day holidays. Stick, being the wonderful boyfriend that he is, responded to “Wanna visit Mongolia?” much the way he responded to “Wanna move to China?” (“Ok… Can I bring my computer?”)
Posting may be sporadic because I’m not sure how [...]

This is where Stick and I go for lunch most days. All the delights of crispy egg pancakes, and one of the cleanest carts I’ve seen.

They also have an amazing, superfast pancake-making rhythm. Mrs. Pancake rolls the dough, then Mr. Pancake fries it with an egg while Mrs. Pancake takes the last fried [...]

I asked my TA a Chinese-language question this morning, and she managed to suppress her laughter long enough to answer me. My Chinese is pretty bad, the tones trip me up, and also I learned to speak in Yantai, and Yantai-hua is annoyingly different from standard Mandarin.
Great, I know just a few words, and [...]

The cocktails menu at the Beijing Outback Steakhouse and me.

We went out for a wonderful payday dinner of Western food, but after dinner, Christina began to feel ill, so we decided to grab an immediate cab home. Unfortunately, we came out of the Outback Steakhouse in the ritzy Sun Dong’An shopping area, and the cabbies were quoting really outrageous figures to take us [...]

It’s sort of an expat joke that the only information determined at a Chinese meeting is the time and place of the next meeting. I think I even saw that on of those “You know you live in China, when…” lists. I was just in an hour-long meeting at which the only thing determined was [...]

They weren’t kidding when they said this dish was spicy.

Another English teacher’s Chinese lesson on the staffroom blackboard.