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^ I think that you mean you "can't be the only one WHO has noticed this." Remember that phrase about people who live in glass houses?
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<p>Just throwing this out there, but using “that” to refer to people is common today and considered correct in many style manuals. If that’s wrong, then it’s wrong to say “The car whose windshield…”</p>
<p>(And no, I didn’t find these links myself. :))</p>
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because the proper pluralization of acronyms and initialisms involves an apostrophe.
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<p>It depends on the style manual. :)</p>
<p>I agree with romanigypsyeyes on ellipses. I despise that. I Also Hate It When People Capitalize Each Word. OR WHEN THEY TALK LIKE THIS. Or when they use too many punctuation marks!!!!!</p>
<p>For the most part, people here have good English, but I do agree that many of the posts are full of “dull, humorless, uninformative writing.”</p>
<p>Then again, this isn’t exactly a forum for thrillseekers or for an RPG… :p</p>
<p>I think a lot of you are misunderstanding me. I don't really care about nitpicking over grammar, as you can probably see from my own posts. What I do care about is the totally incoherent and obnoxious type writing that romanigypsyeyes and kyledavid80 were talking about. So yeah, what concerns me IS that people are unable to express themselves, kwu.</p>
<p>^that's assuming that people are trying to express themselves in a intellectual or humorous way. You don't know what they're trying to express, so how do you know that they failed at expressing themselves?</p>
<p>I definitely know that most of my posts are not meant to be intellectual or funny... just to add some tidbit to a conversation that probably doesn't mean much to anybody.</p>
<p>When you talk with your friends, do you expect each sentence to be meaningful, enlightening, or hilarious? No, friends talk about nonsense all the time (well at least here in Oklahoma... but I doubt it's different in most places)</p>
<p>(BTW, my ellipses are purposeful, even if they're unconscious. They mean "duh?" or something that's obvious to me or just drawing out the previous syllable before for some sort of emphasis)</p>
<p>i think you're referring to how informally people type on AIM and then bring that way of typing onto CC. my friends never use periods or even questions marks. usually their messages begin with "u". i think it's funny because i used to type like that until i signed up on CC. </p>
<p>i thought this would be funny:</p>
<p>yes = yeah = yeh, yea, ya, yah
you= u, yu
... (no periods, commas, or apostrophes) just ...
hey = yo, sup, heeeeeyyy<br>
no = na, nah<br>
you are/you're = your, ur, youre
so or sooo
words are always butchered or shortened<br>
subjects/verbs are left out (what u doin or left 5 min. ago)
what = wat lol
ing = in (runnin)</p>
<p>and much more that i can't think of. i don't go on AIM much anymore, but when I do I feel like i'm talking to seventh graders. here's a message from one of my friends: </p>
<p>xxxxxxxx: where u at summer league today
translation: Were you at the summer league game today? </p>
<p>how did we do?
xxxxxx: varsity we won 3-2 rp late game heroics
translation: the varsity team won 3-2. RP (nickname) had some late game heroics. he scored in the final minutes. </p>
<p>i think this would be a funny thread (funny AIM messages lol)</p>
<p>when ppl type like dis....its annoyin....but w/e....dey mad fugazy....like some yale kid was talkin shiit 2 me a few dayz ago....typin like diz....****ED ME OFF</p>
<p>UNFORGIVABLE</p>
<p>Oh and I know someone who's sharper than the space needle who types AIM style even on FB, so how you act on the net =/= real life. (Which is why cyber bullying is the poorest excuse for a "crime" out there)</p>
<p>What I love is how all of this pertains to me..I always use ellipses, I always use capital letters, and I use a whole bunch of extra punctuation all the time..</p>
<p>I could care less about how others write on here, so long as it's understandable. If I have to strain myself to understand it, I get annoyed.</p>
<p>That being said, a small part of me dies when I see something like 'ur' in place of your/you're. It takes .2 seconds to type out the full word, people.</p>
<p>anyways, yeah, it doesn't bother me at all, I can't believe you're complaining about it on the internet unless it's totally unreadable or something. The "u"'s and "ur"'s don't faze me at all, in fact, i use it sometimes. It's not a big deal.</p>
<p>wow i can't believe you're annoyed enough to make a thread about this. just deal with it, it will affect you only as much as you are willing to let it.</p>
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