The Grammar Whore Thread

[edczxcvbnm]

I am not that big of a whore. The only thing I ask is that people capitalize letters when necessary. For example, as the start of a sentence like I am doing or the letter 'i' when you are refering to yourself.

Don't type short hand internet slang. Type your instead of ur.

Commas, uncapitalized proper names and misspelled words are fine with me as long as it does not go completely overboard.

Thats the jist of what I am a grammar whore about. I put people on my block list if they constantly type without punctuation, capitalized letters and internet slang. Its too much to try and comprehend and it is an eyesore to even look at. It's just completely unstructured.

[*ETERNAL FANTASY*]

I JUST GET ANNOYED WHEN PEOPLE TYPE IN CAPS CONSTANTLY. NOT ONLY IS IT RUDE BUT TO ME IT MAKES ME WONDER IF SOMEONES GOT A BAD ATTITUDE OR SOMETHING...IT'S A HABBIT THAT PEOPLE SHOULD BREAK!

I'll stop now...boy that drove me crazy!

[612904398619]

YEAH I DONT LIKE WHEN PEOPLE TYPE IN CAPS LOCK EITHER. I JUST PICTURE THEM AS AN IDIOT YELLING AT ME FOR NO REASON.

[Luc]

I just hate it when people say "supposebly" instead of supposedly. Anyway, this is in real life. Online, I just get annoyed by the people who use numbers instead of words, or letters instead of words. =/

[Hawkeye]

what if I cannot spell business or supercalicfrescilisiousexpealidosious?

[Roogle]

Someone I knew a long time ago once used to really criticize anyone that didn't type exactly like him. After that, I kind of became more relaxed in terms of how I typed. When you talk to me now, you get exactly what you give.

if u type like this i do too

But, if you type like this, I guess I will, too.

on the other hand there are mixes of people that like to have like fifty of these.......

ANd then therne are plp that makme a lot of typos so i do too lol

[*ETERNAL FANTASY*]

YEAH I DONT LIKE WHEN PEOPLE TYPE IN CAPS LOCK EITHER. I JUST PICTURE THEM AS AN IDIOT YELLING AT ME FOR NO REASON.

Amen to that man!

I think there was a thread on the translation of proper grammer to n00b speak...though hilarious that gets me insane after reading it for a while!

[612904398619]

PeOpLe WhO tAlK lIkE tHiS aRe AnNoYiNg ToO. and if yoo talk lyke dis and spell today like todai and all that.

[*ETERNAL FANTASY*]

and then theres the whole homie element with the numbers like:

y0!111 !m dA 60m6 f0 shizzle...yeah im going to stop right there before i make a fool of myself!

[Fuzakeru]

Grammar Nazis, wherefore art thou?

I recall RPing on Yahoo for quite some time and the people in certain rooms would drive me insane with their horrible grammar and even vocabulary. "Then he snucked into teh room and the lightingn flashs behind him like flashng sparks of lifght his cape floating in the wind as he snucked their." That bothered me almost on the same level as someone running a fork down a glass window.

Oh! It got to me also when people would try to make themselves look really smart and ended up using WAY to many punctuations. "Then he snucked into teh room; and the lightning, flashs behind. him. flashing sparks of light! his cape flotaing; in the wind as he snucked their."

^_^- I'm pretty guilty of typoing myself though. Of course, you all should see some of the early e-mails Myles wrote to me before I was able to teach him. xD!! "I liek u vary much. Allthou i like u i dont know, etc." Oh what fun it is to go back and reread some of those! I tease the daylight out of him for it too.

[krissy]

personally I think I am in love with Roogle

[Resha]

I like good grammar, although SOMETIMES I DO DO THE CAPS THINGY. Oh well.

I don't mind using cute internet words like "confuzzling" and all...

What annoys me isn't really a grammar thing, I guess, but my blood boils when I hear someone scream : "OOOOH MY GAWD, THAT IS SO KAWAII!!!!!!!!"

Argh, that word.

[o_O]

When you talk to me now, you get exactly what you give.

In reverse.

<o_O> ;]
<Roogle> [;
<o_O>
<Roogle> D:

etc.

The mispelling of definitely, 'definately' annoys me. As does the omission of punctuation.

[Zante]

Using shortcuts on a forum is unnecesary, but it is very usefull on live chats and a must in online games. Being killed while typing -thank you- can be anoyng, so it is logical that people write -ty- instead. If you play online games a lot, using them will become a habbit.

As for gramar, you should bear in mind that not everyone is American or English, so right gramar isn't natural to everyone.

[Dr Unne]

So long as someone makes some kind of effort to be coherent, I don't really care. There is no inherent reason why one way of typing is more correct than another. Language is a tool to communicate, and if two people agree upon some form of communication, and it works, then there you go.

There are strange social reasons why people care about such things. People will subconsciously adapt their manner of speech to people they want to befriend, or to a group of people to which they want to belong. It even happens in real life. My own style of speaking has changed a lot since I was a child; people in this area (including my parents) have a strange dialect and I've mostly abandoned it. Some of my cousins who grew up here moved to the south, and they now have a southern accent. I even often find people from America who've moved to Britain end up with British accents.

I also definitely notice that because a lot of people use "proper" grammar around this MB, that many people who come to the MB will eventually adopt the same style of writing after time. It's a way to try to fit in. If you want to fit in, you'll try to behave like everyone else.

Another way to fit in is to draw a line and say "Look at those people. They're not like me. They're also not like you. See? We're part of a group, you and me." A "common enemy" is something that draws people together. Which might be the purpose of this thread, really. I used to do this kind of thing all the time too, but I don't care too much now.