I've never typed like that and have even tried to get away from "lol" and replace it with "haha".

I feel like some people type like that because outside of the internet, say writing a paper for class, you can't use that "language". Sure, most people type like that because they're lazy or not very educated or think it's faster/cooler, but I believe some do it just because they can. It's not a stupidity thing or a laziness thing. It's a "rebellion" thing...sorta...

lol

What do you mean on the internet?

Just no sudden movements, like blinking, or heavy breathing, and you'll be fine :nod:



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who dis Alter guy, an' where ego den?


hur hur hur, me makes funny

There should be a hyphen there. :hehe:

*runs off giggling*

Eh, internet's generally a cesspool where all the muck and scum float to the top with their foul odours. You do find a few bastions of sanity and intellect amongst the filth and fools, but you gotta take a deep breath and wade thru some serious nastiness to get anywhere where you want to be. Anonymity and lessened fear of reprisal and all that. Moderation plays some part, but you can have crooked sheriffs all the same...Still, even if you do get lucky and find your saloon, problem is still finding the right-minded people (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-FIh7dxdD0) folks in the fray.

I think Ackie is with Rosie's troupe. Possibly missed 'em, poor bugger.

I can't stand that. I have actually seen someone who replaces all of their "th" sounds with D, so they say "dis is da best forumz evr." or "I gotz dat game,itz da best game dat I played." Its so Annoying! I can't stand it, do they really think they look cool when they say things like that? Then there are the completely incoherent types like this...

"heyguyswhatsup?IamnewhereandIforsomereasoncantfigureouthowtouseaspacebarandproperpunctuation."



I'll help you out here, what he really meant to say was "up on teh interwebz".

Oh, I quite like to go slumming round the net, judging people I have never met by only a wall of text. It gives me a feeling of superiority and pomposity matched only by the enormity of my own ego.
I further inflate my id by flaunting my knowledge of the abstruse, and hold in my esteem those members whose loquaciousness is monumental. As in the real world, there must be class groupings and order.
/sarcasm/

Stupidity is a relative term, be careful that you don't put yourself in a situation where it would have been better to hold your text than have everyone think you are an idiot.

That makes two of us then.



's ok, you're safe - I have my grumpy PM/warn/ban quota for this week.

You are my freaking hero.

I've wondered myself-just learned to ignore it.

Hell, screwing slowly backing away. It's time for sprinting. I think it was about time some broke Usaine Bolt's record anyway.

I learned a new word today. Personally i would just use "talkativiness", no idea if that's a word, but atleast i know what it's supposed to mean

Edit: well what do you know, it is! Though i misspelled it :facepalm:

oh dear...
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Who dis Rosies chick. you means whole lotta? Cuz Whole lotta Rosies is da bomb :rock:


Sorries 'puter box person cabbie, it's me speak, is all


Yeah, me thinks so too, cuz when Bossman gives an order, me hops to it den.

Dere are 'puter box peoples who don't think of me Acky an idiot?
wow :blink:


me thinks that dere's peoples on th' 'puter box that isn't good with the 'putting together of the words to make them not sound svcky', and den they all gets name called and stuff.



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and on a saner note. I only let Acky out of his box occasionally. Thank god he doesn't have his own account, m'kay?

I also have no idea who Acky is, but I find myself strangely drawn to him. Maybe there's just a high level of education on this forum, but I'm surprised by the number of people who are so fluent in English you'd have no idea it wasn't their first language. I don't mind text speak thrown in here and there, it's when it makes up ~95% of the sentence that I get annoyed.

I feel inclined to quote a line from GTA SA: "Rosie's a man!"

I think the worst thing is when it's used in real life. In biology the other day, the girl I sit next to said, "I was like WTF! Omd, lawl." Then the person the she was talking to said, "Omfd lawl does he have a gf?"

Then I left before my brain died.

I don't really encounter this problem. Oftentimes the ones that I struggle reading the most aren't "leet" speak, but rather people who don't speak English as their primary language. I usually assume most people with bad grammar are not English speakers, because, newsflash: lots of people don't speak English.

I see it occasionally, yeah, but usually people will either clean it up, are joking/being sarcastic, or do not stay around for long.

Most people are stupid. Well, more so Ignorant due to Apathy or Sloth. I am sure their Stupidity can be cured by a few books. It's just on the Internet, the evidence of this is clear as it is not covered up by the body language of the person. And, warts in the thought process are more prevalent in text than when spoken.

For example, that hot chick/dude you saw last night? Dumb as a board, but you overlook that as you gaze at their physical perfection. And, up until 15 years ago, most of the other dumb people who are ugly that we don't want to look at, we never had to pay attention to because they never left their house. Only their friends and neighbors had to be exposed to them. Now, everyone has a voice and no one has a filter. And, we all have to listen to it.

Agreed it is far worse when people actually talk like that.

I imagine it's a combination of initial bad grammar, "everyone else does it," and lack of reprisal. People come online while tired of their homework that marks them down for spelling, see other people typing like that, and gleefully start doing it themselves. A few years later it's a well-established habit. It's more of a slow laziness; not so much that it's "too hard" to type normally at any given moment, but that over a long period it was just the easier route, instead of ever having to learn the actual words.

Note that the above doesn't apply to people for whom English is a second language. In my experience they don't actually type like that, and if they do, it's for the same "that's how everyone on the internet does" reason, unrelated to language difficulties. Learning a language tends to result in bad grammar when you haven't mastered it, but you still have to learn the word at all to type it, and any mistakes are different from intentionally broken English.

While I understand rules against "grammar cops" and others to keep people from being constantly harassed for how they type, in the end, that does only encourage it. No one is going to stop doing something if no one tells them it's wrong. I've been to more loosely-moderated creative writing sites, where people who type like that are predictably flamed severely on sight...they either leave, not because they can't but because they openly refuse to change it, or they learn to type normally.

I notice how BGSF isn't on that list....

You trying to say something? :stare:

:laugh:

The Neopet forums are much more intelligent than this forum. That's why I've been spending increasingly more time there.
[Sarcasm]

Hahahaha my mom still plays neopets

she doesn't go on the forums or anything like that she just likes to play the games

There are 3 of these errors you speak of in your sig. :facepalm:

I count 2, I dare you to click the Pokemon one... do it...