I know a guy who can't stand the word "loaf."
Also, this same guy, if he ever said the word "a**", his girlfriend (at the time) would scream "BUM!" because for some reason she thinks that "American" is an evil language that should never be spoken. Yeah.. Whatever.
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I despise when people type "kool." I ****ing hate it. I hate it even more when people just type it for the hell of it. Like the other day, I'm watching Ghostbusters, and this goddamn stupid girl messages me with, and I quote, "wot u doin" (which is painful enough to try and read..) to which I replied with "Watching Ghostbusters." to which the idiot replies with "kool". GAH! Just thinking about it makes me want to take to her face with a shovel. Idiot. Same with "lol". I hate that acronym. Sure, I used to use it when it actually meant "hey, I'm laughing!" but now everyone just seems to spit it out when they don't have anything of intelligence to contribute to a conversation. And that pisses me off. If you havn't got anything to say, then either don't type anything, or just type something that actually tells the other person that you havn't got anything to say. Like maybe a "hmm.." or even the obvious "I don't know what to say" can help a great deal, and won't make you look like such a ****ing idiot.
I also hate excessive use of exclamation points and question marks. One is enough to get the point across, thankyou. Even a small combination of the two, i.e. "?!" is also acceptable. No one needs to see a line of four or five to see that you're asking a question. Everyone else isn't as stupid as you. And just so you know, your parents are just being nice when they try to assure you that you aren't a complete ****ing moron.
And while we're on the topic of punctuation, try to use a ****ing period every now and then. Preferably at the
end of a ****ing sentance. It's not that hard. Really. It's one key, and it's very close to the enter key. It takes less than a second to press, and amounts greatly to the readability and credibility of what you've just typed. And a handy tip to prevent looking like a total wanker is to actually use commas and apostrophes. They're there for a reason. See? I just used one. I abbreviated "they are" to "they're". Not "there", or "their", but "they're". No, not "theyre", it's "
they're".
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[This message has been edited by Chikyu-Jin (edited June 05, 2004).]