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| SOUND OFF!!! Ever have something REALLY bugging you and nowhere to vent about it? Well, this is the place. It does not have to be fauna oriented at all! Get it off your chest right here. |
12-04-2003, 03:53 PM
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Wala!
I haven't seen that one! Too funny.
I'm with Clay on the part about the obnoxious abbreviations. It's even worse when it's: "Y wud U want 2 kool yr snakes B4 breading?" ...only they don't usually give us the courtesy of a question mark, which makes deciphering the essence of their communication even more difficult.
It gets harder than trying to read the track list of a freakin' Prince album! Or do I call him "symbol" now?:alien:
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12-04-2003, 06:24 PM
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oh please!.... don't even get me started on punctuation marks.... or, more to the point.... the TOTAL LACK OF THEM!!.... You never know where one sentence ends and another begins....
my favorite example is this....
Bob, says Charlie, sucks!!
Bob says Charlie sucks!!
What a simple comma can do....
Neil
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12-04-2003, 09:18 PM
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The thing that really gets to me the most, even in "informal" correspondence is when some one writes to me in all caps.
If you are gonna communitcate through email/private message/whatever you need to use proper etiquette. All caps is the equivalent of YELLING! There are only 2 people in the whole world who are allowed to yell at me:
my mother and my Husband.
Others do so at their own risk 
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12-04-2003, 10:04 PM
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Wendy.... I agree.... although.... when *I* use all caps, it's for emphasis ONLY!.... As I'm sure you can PLAINLY see??
I guess it's better than e.e. cummings??.... He only wrote in lower case and NEVER in caps....
Neil
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12-04-2003, 10:57 PM
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all caps
yep, it doesn't bother me to have someone write ONE word or sentence part that way, it adds emphasis, but a whole letter is obnoxious. We had a guy on the cornsnake forums who wrote with "caps lock" on all the time. hIS SENTENCES READ LIKE THIS: i AM LOOKING FOR AN aMELANISTIC mOTLEY fEMALE. dOES rICH, OR kAT, OR dARIN HAVE ANY aDULTS?" And one guy actually took the time to write EvErY OtHeR lEtTeR iN AlL CaPiToL lEtTeRs, which it was a chore for me to do just for that ExAmPlE...
funny how that looks like exam-pie... 
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12-04-2003, 11:02 PM
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Here's an example
This is an actual post. I'm sure the kid means well. I would love to point him in the right direction, or at least suggest some things to avoid. But...
"hi every1
i am getting a new exotic pet, and want to know your opinions on what do get. i have 1 corn at the moment....hese r wot i wud consider....
MAYBE some kind of culabrid
defo sum kind of boid
maybe an invertabrate
an arachnid
a lizzard"
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12-04-2003, 11:40 PM
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My first impression:
a 12 year old kid
which is fine, if you are a 12 year old kid. 
and Yep, that EvErY oThEr LeTtEr thing is annoying 
As for typing in all lower case, at least is isn't yelling. You may not pass and english exam but it isn't bad etiquette.
Now, did I hear something about pie? 
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12-04-2003, 11:43 PM
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 I made a typo!
Quote:
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You may not pass and english exam
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That should have been "an".....guess I have been staring at the screen too long today.
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12-04-2003, 11:45 PM
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Darn, Wendy!
I had been waiting for an excuse to use the new "lick" emoticon! I can't believe I passed up my own typing of pie, and had someone else beat me to the punch! Good job! Now if only I can dream up a use for the "swallowing spectator!" 
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