I was just telling him about Massassi's propensity towards immaculate grammar and how a lack thereof is frowned upon.

*********, I ended a sentence with a preposition!

God-damnit is back on the censor list?

********* isn't a word.

*********, on the other hand...

The misspelled variant is censored. Amusing.

So far, this has been the most convincing argument yet. But, the whole click from gandalf there actually made allot of sense too.

I have decided that a compromise is not to far fetched. It makes since that punctuation and whatnot can help the ease of reading in a text document. However, i reject the idea that speach such as "u" and "lmao" are diminutive to a converstation. I do not use aol and have never cared for it much, but i have run into these terms everywhere. They are familiar and easily recognisable internet "slang" that plenty of people around the world understand because of its wide spread use. Some people may hit somesort of speedbump when they see things like "lol" in text not expecting them, but you would be hard pressed to find anybody on the internet under the age of 80 who didn't know what that meant.

I will make an effort to capitalize, and punctuate, i guess, and i may even try to spell out the word "you" if im in a good enough mood, but i am not ashamed of any "u"s or "lols" or "rofl"s that may slip out if im not paying attention, or just not in the mood to care. It is just the result of spending allot of time online talking to alot of people in what IS becoming the norm of internet lingo.

EDIT: Oh, and i left out the important parts on that quote cus i figured there was a reason it was not posted directly to begin with.

Just learn to type properly and do it consistantly and it you don't concentrate on trying to make it neat. I type a healthy 60-80 WPM like this, and sure the odd mispelled word will slip out, or maybe a crappy overuse of commas, but I still like to think it's at least legible.


Also, don't swear so much.

EDIT: However... you might want to spell out 'you' and 'I'. Those two things really erk me. Things like 'lol' and 'rofl' are fine in my books though. Dunno about everyone else.

I type at 120 WPM and my typing is almost perfect.

I always thought stuff like "u" and the rest of its friends were better suited for text messages and the like, where three letters vs. one actually takes longer than a fraction of a second.

I type at that average too.

/flex

Anyways, like I'd always say, to those that tyep liek dis, please stop butchering my language.

Success

This has got to be the first time this has ever happened on the internet. New member, I commend you.

Practice makes perfect. You'll end up writing at least one paper in your life, and it can't hurt you to implement good practices in all things you write.

See, when i came here [Mid grade 5...Its grade 9...] I spelt worse then everyone in the forum put together.

Now i my typing is readable and most of my punctuation is correct.
Really look at some of the old "imsoshort" posts you'll know what i mean.

I'm the only one of my friends and I that actually find it hard to type like a dumbass. It takes me longer to do 'u' than 'you', because I type 'you' by instinct and have to correct it.

never!

Then remain a child, whatever.

God knows I was probably a worse noob than this guy and te combined when I first joined.

Still doesn't mean it's not annoying. I deserved every remark I got back then.

Lack of punctuation doesn't bother me, and I'm good friends with people who say u and whatnot, it's when people act really annoying and post too much that gets me

(not that you would ever do something like that)

Of course not, i...

...would never post too much its...

...completely unneccassary.

You may want to work on that signature a little...thats going to annoying people far more than anything you type :D, just because of its size more than the actual content, even though it is funny.

I can't believe we are actually grooming this guy in Massassi's posting "ideals", we have become far to picky and protective over our little site :P. Its like we care about this place or something not that I don't

Er.

We have posting ideals? I thought the 'idea' was to just throw any old garbage in the post and hope it made sense. At least, that's what most of you people do.

I like pie.

It's pretty bad when you get clowned not ONCE but TWICE by imsoshort.

Don't feel bad, I was alot worse when I first registered on a forum. Large amounts of time spent on the Zone led me to believe that chatroomese was the language of discussion forums, and not basic internet English. (things like ROFL and LOL are what I call basic internet English) Basically, I believed it was like this: ZOMG HOW R U 2DAY?!?!?!?!!!!! LIEK GR8 HW BT U?!?!?!!!!!!! ZOMG I R DUIN GUD 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My apologies if that annoyed anyone.

I now claim to be fluent in basic internet English, chatroomese (some) and...erm...13375|>34|<. (leetspeak)

OMG! You fix your hair all wrong!

You give yourself too much credit.

How ironic. :]

I like this Joker Sway guy. He tried hard (I guess) and came off successfully in this forum. This is a rare thing indeed.