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[wtrent10]

Well, It's a habit to just put 3 question marks at the end of a sentence. I've done it for a few years now. Also I didn't know that you had to have perfect punctuation on the forums. I don't see why cap's have to be after every sentence and shit like that. I thought I was out of school.

[JSkater]

Wow, I'm surprised you're not in summer school.

[Spoon]

I thought I was out of school.

Oh on the contrary, you're education is JUST beginning.....

>evil laughter<

[Ash]

Well, It's a habit to just put 3 question marks at the end of a sentence. I've done it for a few years now. Also I didn't know that you had to have perfect punctuation on the forums. I don't see why cap's have to be after every sentence and shit like that. I thought I was out of school.

And here's the fundamental problem with public schooling, the kids who want to keep the school at school and forget everything they learn once they are out. Sure, you are out of school for the summer, but these people at the front of the rooms aren't just babbling on about shit for no reason, you are supposed to take some of it into that large grey sponge inside your skull and possibly apply it to life. But, I guess we all take different things away from the experience... you apparantly took very little.

[taber man]

I don't really care if its fake...thats a pretty fuckin sick joke

i totally agree, because i don't see how come the cats wouldn't use the impulse reaction to scratch at the person that is trying to do that to them (before the bone softener and muscle relaxers are injected). it is sick, and anyone who does that for real should be shot without trial. i hope some of you agree.

[cxwq]

I think the problem really comes down to code-switching.

The older teens and adults here have known a world without IM. They learned to write and communicate before the normal form of communication was a chat program. These 'old guard' types insist on what some would call a pedantic over-correctness in online communication.

The younger teens probably learned to chat online at the same time they learned to write in school. They simultaneously learned 'real world' english and 'online' english and they have no problem code-switching between the two. When in class (or later on the job) they write in 'real world' english. While online they may choose to write in the abbreviated, anything-goes IM-speak style.

Then we have forums like this one where the administrators expect 'proper', 'real world' english. The 'old guard' types are comfortable with this because they tend to communicate that way anyhow. The people who were code-switching need to look at the accepted communication style here and adapt. The problem is that we occasionally get people who don't take the time to read a bit and learn the communication norms for the site.

[Spoon]

i totally agree, because i don't see how come the cats wouldn't use the impulse reaction to scratch at the person that is trying to do that to them (before the bone softener and muscle relaxers are injected). it is sick, and anyone who does that for real should be shot without trial. i hope some of you agree.

I think you're taking this WAY too seriously, and that's scaring the llamas. Please, don't scare the llamas. I don't care what YOU would do to a imaginary person who performed an imaginary, and physically impossible, cruel action against an animal.

[serpent sniper]

C, while I do respect your "theory", I must admit that it does have its flaws.
Also, taber man! Goddammit! You're scaring the llamas! Fucker...

[Ash]

Nice theory, CX, although I do have to point out that while I am one of the older personalities here, I did start using online communications at the age of 11 and I do not seemed to be plauged by this problem, except for the fact that I like to write long run-on sentences with lots of commas in them.

As I was saying, Nice theory Cx, but I think regardless of how you learned your english and grammar skills, it shouldn't impede on your ability to read the rest of the thread to see what has already been added to the conversation. You would think that it would be a good way to avoid redundancy and sheer ingorance, but apparantly I am wrong since these things seem to filter their way into these threads constantly.

In any case, some people are dumb. That's about all I have to say.

[Spoon]

The funny thing is, on message boards I (attempt) to use perfect grammer, with the occasional internet acronym. On ICQ I do the same, but on AIM I type like a speed freak 14 year old. I think it's some kind of perverted mental influence, some kind of "dumb" brain waves that AIM sends out when you use it.

[merlinski]

The funny thing is, on message boards I (attempt) to use perfect grammer, with the occasional internet acronym. On ICQ I do the same, but on AIM I type like a speed freak 14 year old. I think it's some kind of perverted mental influence, some kind of "dumb" brain waves that AIM sends out when you use it.

Its a product of AOL. Coincidence?