On September 10 2008 20:29 intrigue wrote:
Also, what indeed is up with those fellows that selectively capitalize letters in their sentences? I will provide an example: "today I played a Game of starcraft on Iccup, and i went zero and Seven simply Tank Rushing his zerglings." It isn't even consistent! If only there was a internet standard for typing, both efficient and aesthetically pleasing!

Maybe they are German?

Durak

Canada3685 Posts

September 10 2008 13:35 GMT

#23

On September 10 2008 20:40 Spenguin wrote:
It's just a good habit to get into, once your in you can't get out. Good luck

Exactly. I might as well type properly if I can just so that I can keep my wpm up when I'm typing an essay or other long prose. The people that add in extra words to sound condescending are simply retarded and are easy to pick out.

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

September 10 2008 13:51 GMT

#24

Am i SIS?

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

September 10 2008 13:58 GMT

#25

I am Laughing Out Loud!

FirstBorn

Romania3955 Posts

September 10 2008 14:03 GMT

#26

I like Chill!

GeneralStan

United States4789 Posts

September 10 2008 14:09 GMT

#27

i hat ewen ppl abbv everything & r 2 la-z 2 even capitlize I, & mispel cuz they in a hurry and shit

Nytefish

United Kingdom4282 Posts

September 10 2008 14:13 GMT

#28

Wouldn't SIPs be better?

micronesia

United States24773 Posts

September 10 2008 14:26 GMT

#29

On September 10 2008 20:28 Elric_ wrote:

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Agreed. It's just as bad as the idiots who post just to say "it's THEIR not there" or "it's spelt XXXX, not XXYX." I don't fucking understand those people. Do they get kicks out of correcting the literacy of a random stranger on the internet? Who the fuck cares!!? It's the Internet. As long as the meaning is clear and it's not complete txtmsg garbage, why bother.....

You are overgeneralizing, and I belive missing the point in many cases.

If you are arguing with someone and typing really quickly, and they are trying to find fault with you, and then call you an idiot for an obvious typo, then they are being an idiot. But I don't like the mentality that because it's the internet you should never correct anyone for anything. If your reasoning is to be a pain in the ass, then you should just stop. But let's be honest. Some people make the same stupid mistakes over and over again without realizing it. Sometimes all it takes is someone to politely point out and possibly explain the error, and it won't happen anymore.

I like it when people correct me if it's because I was mistaken (it's called learning dur). But I agree it can be hard to tell if they are genuine or not, and they can be really dumb about it when they want to.

BTW intrigue if the people typing properly aren't complaining about other people then I see 0 problem. Nothing wrong with practicing proper English.

Polemarch

Canada1564 Posts

September 10 2008 14:44 GMT

#30

yeah serious, formal language is a little out of place in casual conversation... it's like a guy who shows up to (public) school in a tie. or how slang is out of place in a serious/formal environment ("yo sup this is my resume... so like when i was 8 my uncle hired me to mow his lawn... he said i did a kickass job so plz hire me thx").

so it's a little weird, but no reason to hold it against people i think, especially when english might not be their native language -- picking up on these little nuances might be hard.

8Pylon

United States223 Posts

September 10 2008 14:48 GMT

#31

big deal you whiney bitch e.e

Djabanete

United States2786 Posts

September 10 2008 15:01 GMT

#32

this is the stupidest thing ive ever read

This is the stupidest thing I've ever read.

randombum

United States2378 Posts

September 10 2008 15:07 GMT

#33

On September 10 2008 23:13 Nytefish wrote:
Wouldn't SIPs be better?

yeA! siS makeS nO sensE siP ftW! screW thosE whO capitilizE correctlY (noticE lacK oF perioD)

Chuiu

3470 Posts

September 10 2008 15:14 GMT

#34

On September 10 2008 20:18 intrigue wrote:do these people read our (my) posts everywhere and think i'm some classless swine, educated and uncouth? is the internet really so serious?!?!?!

Yes, now learn to write properly or suffer from incomprehensible and widely used internet jargon a decade from now.

Damn trailer trash.

On September 10 2008 22:51 Plexa wrote:
Am i SIS?

No, you forgot to capitalize "I" and didn't properly punctuate "S.I.S".

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

September 10 2008 15:16 GMT

#35

On September 10 2008 23:26 micronesia wrote:

BTW intrigue if the people typing properly aren't complaining about other people then I see zero problem. Nothing wrong with practicing proper English.

Numbers below 10 should be written out with letters.

MTF

United States1739 Posts

September 10 2008 15:17 GMT

#36

It just comes naturally to me. It honestly is an effort to do it the other way around for me. Seems counter-intuitive, I know, but it's true!

But yes, all users that refuse to capitalize and use punctuation deserve to be slaughtered! D:<
hear my serious roar

aTnClouD

Italy2428 Posts

September 10 2008 15:25 GMT

#37

Who cares as long as the message you want to deliver is clear :p

azndsh

United States4447 Posts

September 10 2008 15:33 GMT

#38

If we confine discussion to film production, it makes sense in this context to speak of national cinemas as non-standard and marginal activities. Part of the problem, of course, is the paradox that for a cinema to be nationally popular it must also be international in scope. That is to say, it must achieve the international (Hollywood) standard. For, by and large, it is films of the major American distributors which achieve national box-office success, so that film-makers who aspire to this same level of box-office popularity must attempt to reproduce the standard, which in practice means colluding with Hollywood's systems of funding, production control, distribution, and marketing. Any alternative means of achieving national popular success must, if it is to be economically viable, be conceived on an international scale, which is virtually impossible for a national film industry, unless it has a particularly large domestic market, as in the case of the Bombay film industry. The difficulty is to establish some sort of balance between the 'apparently incompatible objectives of a national cinema -- to be economically viable but culturally motivated', ' to be "national" in what is essentially an international industry'.