Am I the only one?

[dropCGCF]

Originally Posted by Dyne

I hate anybody who degrades the English language on the Internet. Using the above shorthands and changing "you" to "u" and "thanks" to "thx" really don't sit well with me either.

As I see it, your power over minor grammatical rules dictates how much of an intelligence rating you get from me.

Intelliwha?

[Typhoid]

I hate ppl who abbv. evrything. It makes no sense to me y they do it. Its like savng seconds of there day means so much to them they cut corners and make thmslvs look relly relly lame. Ppl need to lern how to spell, becuz it can get super annoying to keep readin sommin some1 rites, and u cant tell wut they mean by it.


EDIT: and if the internet really pisses you off, just stop using it. There was this guy I know that pissed me off, so i stopped going to his house every Friday...Kidding, kidding.

The bottom line is, if something makes you mad, stop going to the source. Not the music awards, the thing that makes you mad. Its like, you know rolling in toxic waste will give you lymphoma and piss you off, but you do it anyways to pass the time, and because everyone else is doing it.

So if it makes you mad, stop using it, and i assure you, you will be happier.

[Crash]

good topic.

my biggest problem is using the three periods...

i do that way too much. i do use WTF and lol a bunch on aim, but not too much on message boards. to me, it seems like a cool dialect of english. it is more efficient, and you can certainly understand just as easily. personally, i think it's cool, but i know kids are growing up using this crap, and pretty soon brain power will be at a minimum. oh well.

[Jonbo298]

On boards I do the periods quite alot too...just a habit I formed...damnit..i must stop

I use lol sometimes in city of heroes when in a group but on AIM I usually use heh most of the time.

and I dont mind if they aren't laughing. Its more of a "that was funny" thing now. If you do something like LOL or rofl/lmao, then your laughing. lol is generic now

[Fox 6]

I use gtg... its just faster i guess

[KillerGremlin]

The 3 periods help though...you can put non-sentences together, and make random thoughts make sense!

Personally, I hate the spam out there. Not word spam, but spam spam. I went to an IRC search engine today, to find servers to download music on, and an ad for FREE ASIAN PORN1111! popped up. I mean, what the hell. I'm just doing some innocent pirating, I don't want to look at FREE ASIAN PORN1111!

Eventually, the spyware is going to catch up to Mozilla. And then we're all screwed.

[Jonbo298]

Mozilla and IE is like Mac and Windows. Which do you want to infect more? A population you can possibly get 95% of or 5% of

[KillerGremlin]

That's true, for now, but a lot of people are switching to Mozilla. Even Mircrosoft suggested that users get a different browser to replace Internet Explorer. IE is buggy, it crashes, it's a spyware magnet, and it can't do much about ads.

Hopefully the government steps in like they keep saying they will. We need government support to get rid of all the spam out there.

[ZebraRampage]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

I hate ppl who abbv. evrything. It makes no sense to me y they do it. Its like savng seconds of there day means so much to them they cut corners and make thmslvs look relly relly lame. Ppl need to lern how to spell, becuz it can get super annoying to keep readin sommin some1 rites, and u cant tell wut they mean by it.


EDIT: and if the internet really pisses you off, just stop using it. There was this guy I know that pissed me off, so i stopped going to his house every Friday...Kidding, kidding.

The bottom line is, if something makes you mad, stop going to the source. Not the music awards, the thing that makes you mad. Its like, you know rolling in toxic waste will give you lymphoma and piss you off, but you do it anyways to pass the time, and because everyone else is doing it.

So if it makes you mad, stop using it, and i assure you, you will be happier.

I noticed how you abbreviated abbreviate..and I hate when people do that as well. I do use some of the acronyms, but I hate a lot of them. The only one I use at the moment is "lol" because it's such a habit. I have been using haha more often though. I never use "gtg" unless I have to go REALLY fast. I say "I have to go" or "I'll see you later". It really annoys me as well when I see people using u, thx, cuz, etc..It's just...extremely wrong, and annoying. You can imagine what they'd sound like when they say those words abbreviated. They're all extremely stupid.

[BreakABone]

Well, I would be lying if I said I had any problem with much shorthand, as anyone who speaks to me on AIM know, I pretty much use it all the time. The most popular of which is replacing "th" with "d", and some others I use. I mean as long as it is understandable, I see no problem with it. Not to say I'm for everything someone says online, but who am I to complain?

[Perfect Stu]

I hate when people turn regular words into stupid things like "ur" (is it really that much harder to type "your" "you're"?)

I dont like the usage of the number '2' either. "not if u dont want me 2"

OMGHI2UWTFBBQ!!!!!1one

[Crash]

yeah, what is with the BBQ thing, it's started popping up all over.

[Null]

heh, it could almost rhyme if you put words in it.

Oh my god,
Hi to You.
What the F--k
Bar-be-cue!

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Perfect Stu

I hate when people turn regular words into stupid things like "ur" (is it really that much harder to type "your" "you're"?)

I dont like the usage of the number '2' either. "not if u dont want me 2"

OMGHI2UWTFBBQ!!!!!1one

Ok, I'm also guilty as sin for using "ur" and "2", but I never use OMG and what the hell is BBQ?

hehe, i dunno, its kinda catchy if you get the right rhythm to it. Could be the chorus to a song.

I thought it was funnie.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

and what the hell is BBQ?

You're kidding right......


BBQ = Barbecue (sp?)




( See because of made up abbreviations, i cant even spell the stupid word..)