• Things you care/don't care for in online messages
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In English the main things I think are formal are tone and word choice. Grammar is somewhat less important than in other languages but I think correct spelling is universal. I've been arguing with a friend about which of these makes you sound snobby if you expect them in Steam chats. I'm curious to see what everyone else thinks.
"ect" always bugs me.
Where is the "none" option?
when people use "(-_-)" and "(^_^)" faces
As long as I get the general gist of what a person is saying, I really have no strong feelings about any of these things
When someone makes a thread about a software/hardware/game problem they're having, and then they end the thread with "I found the solution, nevermind!" Only... they never post the answer to the problem. I really care for an answer when I'm trying to solve a problem I'm having.
It's so cringeworthy when I see people on facebook becoming hardcore grammar nazis and correct chicks who say "your" instead of "you're". Fuck, no one cares. It's not like they wouldn't understand how to write english, it's that no one cares to use correct grammar and punctuation on Fb because it's not important. My style is weird. I barely use punctuation in instant messages, while on facebook posts I will use some punctuation (although I won't end a sentence with a full-stop) but I won't capitalise proper nouns. Then on Facepunch I'll attempt to use proper grammar and punctuation but I won't capitalise all my proper nouns.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;44829053]It's so cringeworthy when I see people on facebook becoming hardcore grammar nazis and correct chicks who say "your" instead of "you're". Fuck, no one cares. It's not like they wouldn't understand how to write english, it's that no one cares to use correct grammar and punctuation on Fb because it's not important. My style is weird. I barely use punctuation in instant messages, while on facebook posts I will use some punctuation (although I won't end a sentence with a full-stop) but I won't capitalise proper nouns. Then on Facepunch I'll attempt to use proper grammar and punctuation but I won't capitalise all my proper nouns.[/QUOTE] Uhh, your and you're isn't a punctuation issue. If it were a simple punctuation issue they'd post it as youre instead of you're. They're being corrected because they're fucking stupid. The forms of words like you're, your, there, their, and they're were fucking taught to you in primary school and you have no excuse to not use them properly other than incredible ignorance. I don't give much of a shit in terms of people posting with proper spelling or using periods and capitals online, but people who use the wrong word forms bug the ever loving shit out of me.
I type fully and grammatically correct 99% of the time on messengers. My major requires a lot of papers to be typed up and it's just too difficult to go typing like this to typin lik dis online 4 no reason (or any other, non-grammatical/spelling way) and it irks the hell out of me. I keep my typing to one, formative way of communicating. But out of that list, I have no issue with slang words so long as they adhere to grammar and punctuation when needed. If the first word of a sentence is a slang word, I expect it to be capitalized, for example.
I loath "XD", especially when the D reduplicates "XDDDDDDD"
[QUOTE=draugur;44829297]Uhh, your and you're isn't a punctuation issue. If it were a simple punctuation issue they'd post it as youre instead of you're. They're being corrected because they're fucking stupid. The forms of words like you're, your, there, their, and they're were fucking taught to you in primary school and you have no excuse to not use them properly other than incredible ignorance. I don't give much of a shit in terms of people posting with proper spelling or using periods and capitals online, but people who use the wrong word forms bug the ever loving shit out of me.[/QUOTE] So I take it you're one of those lame people who go around Facebook randomly correcting people who happen to use the wrong word? It's really not that big of a deal, it bugs the shit out of me more seeing people acting like snobs correcting an honest mistake than the actual mistake itself.
[QUOTE=Adnap;44828791]Where is the "none" option?[/QUOTE] What about the "holy shit someone actually messaged me" option?
[QUOTE=jbthekid;44829473]What about the "holy shit someone actually messaged me" option?[/QUOTE] If you don't talk often on online messengers then I don't think the poll is looking for your opinion to begin with :v:
The one that annoys me Is When People Type Every Word With The First Letter In Capitals (even when it's not the name of something). Just WHY? You're wasting your own time by having to rape the shift key in time with every new word, and it looks kind of weird to read to me.
I find it easier just to type proper. I've got the speed, got the knowledge, so why psot liek a shitel0rd ? ???
I always type properly when I'm posting something somewhere, because it's available for public viewing and is presumably permanent, excusing the ability to edit posts. In chat, though, I don't really care. Nobody but whoever I'm talking to is ever going to see that, unless they screenshot it for some reason.
The only thing I've never cared for in online messages is when one twat tries to act like a high and mighty cunt and corrects every little thing. Online messaging is not a fucking literacy test, if you seek out every little mistake, you are a cunt.
[QUOTE=TAU!;44828969]When someone makes a thread about a software/hardware/game problem they're having, and then they end the thread with "I found the solution, nevermind!" Only... they never post the answer to the problem. I really care for an answer when I'm trying to solve a problem I'm having.[/QUOTE] Especially when that thread is the only result on Google that relates to the problem you're searching for. Really annoys me when that happens.
fuck punctuation spelling is important though grammar isnt really that important unless you make horrible run on sentences
spell correctly and use the right words, and you're good I don't even capitalize most things, or use periods my gramr ws shit wen i usd to play rs, but eventually it became much better. Then, as I stopped caring quite as much, it went back some middle ground
[QUOTE=The golden;44831014]The only thing that really bugs me is when people go out of their way to shorten already short words. Like typing "you" as "u". Is the two extra characters really that goddamn hard to type? They're within a fingers-reach on the same hand. I've also noticed an increase in shortening common sayings like "pretty much" to "p.much" or things like "whatever' shortened to "w/e". I really don't fancy that very much.[/QUOTE] I hate it when they make them longer. I used to talk to somebody who would often write " yhoo" surely the point of writing like an idiot is to save time?
if i have to type fast to some1 like u then my typing will be something like this
Emoticons like "xD", "^^", ":)", "o_O" and so on always make me rage. Can't tell exactly why. Also stupid spelling errors like "noone", "alot", "then instead of than", "should of" and shortening "you" to "u". Also people that talk like hood-rats are annoying.
[QUOTE=The golden;44831014]The only thing that really bugs me is when people go out of their way to shorten already short words. Like typing "you" as "u". Is the two extra characters really that goddamn hard to type? They're within a fingers-reach on the same hand. I've also noticed an increase in shortening common sayings like "pretty much" to "p.much" or things like "whatever' shortened to "w/e". I really don't fancy that very much.[/QUOTE] When you play CS when you're 8 and aren't allowed to use a microphone, you end up trying to shorthand everything.
As long as people can spell, I don't really care
the kirby emoticon. I can live with most anything else.
"Defiantly"
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;44832898]the kirby emoticon. I can live with most anything else.[/QUOTE] Don't let kirby2112 see that.
This is really a double ended sword. 'Internet slang' is becoming the social norm and anybody using proper English is often seen as a smartass, jerk or otherwise a nerd. In small communities like ours (Facepunch is small relative to the 'social norm' of millions) where proper English is praised, the norm is considered dumb, ignorant or retarded. Be the better person and tolerate others. If you are good at seeing patterns it is very quick to understand 1337 and int3rn3t sp34k. Use some creativity. I find the slangs quite creative, not ignorant. Having said this there are exceptions. Someone may be poor at proofreading, dyslexic or have English as a second language. Again, tolerance and understanding.
Spelling and grammar mistakes usually bother me a lot. I don't really care about punctuation, though. Sometimes ending sentences with/without a period actually feels like it gives it a different tone. i.e. "Fuck you." compared to "Fuck you"
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