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Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:

Necros wrote:Another thing that bugs me for some reason is when someone quotes a reply, and then just puts "this" under it...

This.





Sorry Necros, couldnt help myself.

Writing "This" underneath a post, whilst generally unhelpful, does go some way to provide a consensus of people's ideas/thoughts/responses etc.

Most of the time though, I find that "This" posts have an explanation attached.

I do that occasionally, when I agree with what somebody is saying but don't especially feel the need to add anything. Sometimes, somebody else simply says it perfectly.

Revenent Reiko wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:

Necros wrote:Another thing that bugs me for some reason is when someone quotes a reply, and then just puts "this" under it...

This.
Sorry Necros, couldnt help myself.

Writing "This" underneath a post, whilst generally unhelpful, does go some way to provide a consensus of people's ideas/thoughts/responses etc.

Most of the time though, I find that "This" posts have an explanation attached.

I try

Wasn't picking you out; I merely quoted to continue the debate of 'This' posts.

@Darko, i know dude see my edit

Ah, well, I suppose it all depends on whether you would rather sound like this:

(EDIT: Hidden because picture is huge and I can not figure out how to resize. I am fail.)


Or this:



I would always rather be associated with the first picture.

on the otherhand tho it might be easer to stop trying and snd lik im just stoopid rite?

'L337' is not cool, never was, and I was there when it came out.

I recommend reading up on Eternal September.

Revenent Reiko wrote:@Darko, i know dude see my edit

Your ninja skills are strong.

But as the DGN, I must point out your incorrect spelling of the word "I" and the repeated lack of full stops in your sentences.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:@Darko, i know dude see my edit

Your ninja skills are strong.

But as the DGN, I must point out your incorrect spelling of the word "I" and the repeated lack of full stops in your sentences.

Why thank you kind sir.
Damn you DGN! (Dakka Grammar Nazi right ) i am too used to texting and therefore apologise profusely for the lack of correct punctuation. However, 'I' is spelt correctly, i just havent used the correct grammatical case

This is also an amazing read on how to ask questions of knowledgeable people online and get them to respond to you in the manner you'd prefer. I feel its somehow appropriate.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Revenent Reiko wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:@Darko, i know dude see my edit

Your ninja skills are strong.

But as the DGN, I must point out your incorrect spelling of the word "I" and the repeated lack of full stops in your sentences.

Why thank you kind sir.
Damn you DGN! (Dakka Grammar Nazi right ) i am too used to texting and therefore apologise profusely for the lack of correct punctuation. However, 'I' is spelt correctly, i just havent used the correct grammatical case

All my texting is done properly. But it costs me more money.
*shrug* I stand by my principles.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:@Darko, i know dude see my edit

Your ninja skills are strong.

But as the DGN, I must point out your incorrect spelling of the word "I" and the repeated lack of full stops in your sentences.

Why thank you kind sir.
Damn you DGN! (Dakka Grammar Nazi right ) i am too used to texting and therefore apologise profusely for the lack of correct punctuation. However, 'I' is spelt correctly, i just havent used the correct grammatical case

All my texting is done properly. But it costs me more money.
*shrug* I stand by my principles.

haha unlimited texts FTW! (kind of, it has had serious detrimental consequences for my typing apparently :()
Thats a really interesting read daedalus, Thanks!

Myself and Reiko wrote: [...]

Meh.. I used 100+ texts between last Friday afternoon and last night.

Not on Forums, although I have seen people post things on the internet with horrendous spelling. The point of chatspeak or whatever should be to abbreviate a short message, not make yourself look stupid.

Meh,if I can understand the idea that is being conveyed in the forums then I've no problem,I've bigger things to concern myself with than picking at peoples spelling...
As for L337 and Txt ,I'd rather not have to try to decipher it in the forums,but really don't care enough to rage about it.

Hate it. For the sake of speed (I guess? How much time does it save?) people render their posts unintelligible. Most forums are international too, show some respect to people who are not communicating in their first language. What does L337 mean anyway? feth me.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Hate it. For the sake of speed (I guess? How much time does it save?) people render their posts unintelligible. Most forums are international too, show some respect to people who are not communicating in their first language. What does L337 mean anyway? feth me.

L337 means 'leet' as in 'elite', though the social degenerates who use such terrible grammar and shorthand abbreviations are anything but elite.

I saw a IM-1337 personalized license plate once. Wasn't sure if I needed to laugh or cry.

Leet stopped being clever about the time everyone realized that all of the letters you need to type actual words are just underneath your fingertips. 80085 on a calculator, with a posher calculator. We all did it at school, its not all that clever. Text speak is a ball-ache in texts. There's no real reason for it in this particular manner of communication.

Back in the days of 300/1200 and 2400, it was a necessary part of chat boards. You had to type quickly to get your point across.

On a message board, where you can edit and spell-check, and take your time posting, it's no so important and mainly practised by those with a lack of patience or the years to learn it.

I don't even use txtspk in texts unless doing conversations of irony humor amongst my friends. If I can't take the time to articulate what I'm typing with proper grammar and (mostly, unless I honestly typo or blank on the spelling) correct spelling, it's not worth sending. No reason to assault someone's eyes.

That said, I'll occasionally indulge in 1337 speak if I'm in a quirky mood or I know it annoys someone. However, it's still generally grammatically correct and spelled correctly(unless it's an "acceptable" leet misspelling) as much as possible.

L33t speak weren't created for forums, and it is dying so fast so i do not see it kinda anywhere. But chatspeak is okay, if not overloaded in message, for me.

Unlike texts, where space is limited (although I strive to maintain good grammar and spelling when I text), a forum does not usually force you to say what you want to in a handful of characters. If you're in a rush, then it's somewhat understandable, but other than that it just makes you come across as lazy and it ruins the cleanliness of the forum.

When you're reading a thread and suddenly find a post that is 99.9% "L0L!!11 Z0MFG ur3 r1t3!!!111 R0tf1!!!!!!!!!!1", it really doesn't make you want to read any further.

Anyone that makes a post with m8, u, or O'rly or similar junk needs a kick in the nads.

That should be a feature of the DakkaDakka web page set up.

Slaanesh Guitarist wrote: and it is dying so fast so i do not see it kinda anywhere.

It's a language option for Facebook.

I kid you not.

No surprise, since facebook sucks. I h8 them.

Necros wrote:No surprise, since facebook sucks. I h8 them.

HERESY!

I don't hate what facebook is and all that social media stuff, but I hate the company itself and their "Whatevah, I do what I want!" philosophy.

Like just last week... we have to have the "like" button on all of our web pages, but their awesome programmers decided to change the back end code for how it works, and then not tell anyone.. so I spent a whole 2 days trying to get their crappy code working again, while our pages had big red error messages on em the whole time. And then there's the face that their documentation is vague probably on purpose. it was a nightmare for me who's a designer, not a coder.

And then there's my girlfriend who's a software company's contracts lawyer, and she's got all kinds of horror stories about working with their legal dept, saying they've got the meanest and most self righteous lawyers she's ever had to work with. I bet they'd put GW's IP Inquisitors to shame.

I hate it, honestly.

When I see people constantly talking in chatspeak, or not even bothering to use a capital letter for the beginning of thier sentence in a thread I am a part of, I feel a little insulted, in a way.

Now of course I know they may not be an idiot, or somebody with less grammarical capability, but it comes across that they are incapable of typing properly, and that they are a total idiot.

I seriously don't think it should be allowed. I look on Dakka as a haven for people who like reading proper, grammatically correct posts, and I find people like that ruining it for me.

Please, grow up.

Polonius wrote:Depending on the topic, nothing will make people skip your posts more than being on-topic, well informed, and articulate.

This is probably the most insightful thing I've ever seen posted here. Bravo, sir.


Bravo.

The purpose of communication is to be understood. It is on the speaker (here, the poster) to speak (post) in a manner that clearly gets your point across. To do less is lazy and shows you really have no concern that people understand you, but rather you just want to be heard and attention be given to you.
I have no problem with typos, they are honest mistakes. Though a little patience in typing and reading your post before submitting it should really take care of most of that.
Typing in a lazy fashion basically says "I have no care for you the reader".
Pretty much anyone that posts in a forum using chat or L337 gets ignored by me. If you have something worthwhile to post, post it in a way that doesn't insult your audience.

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earth-star wrote:If you say you don't like it, too bad.

Just kidding, just kidding, just kidding, haha, I don't care if people use it.

A prime example.