quote:I do, however, stand by
my previous ascertain that LOL is a sign of the end times. I mean that,
very specifically when you are having a conversation with someone and they
say LOL while laughing, that is very much a sign of the end times. .... But
when they get to the point where people are actually inserting them into
live speak, then we are in trouble.
I've done
that. Accidentally, but yeah. *hides in dark corner*
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and I will go right back to my previous statement... abbrieviated emotes
are acceptible to a certaint extent in my mind... but then I am a child
that grew up revelling in TWAIN imaging, dreamed fo working for NASA, and
loved the idea of the LASER... Now I rail against the GOP and the WTO...
and the USA violating the UN rulings... so acronyms don't seem all that
bad...
If communication is going to break down into smileys, I wasted a SHIT LOAD
of money on college... As I said before... I didn't learn a complete
written and oral language to communicate with a crude system of
pictograms...
and while we're at it... the word....smiley...fucking pussy ass word...
it's like when I visited canada... the one dollarr coin is called the
"loony." From what I was told, most of the population wanted to call the 2
dollar coin the "toonie." and they wonder why we dun take em seriously when
their monetary unit is the loonie...
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the universe hates me... at the end of the email I recieved after this last
post... was this
}:8) <------ cow smiley
fuck that...I am going back to bed
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Domkitten
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posted on 29/11/2006 at 03:19 PM
It's not that the universe hates you, it's just that it wants to appreciate
that now, even bovines can use crude pictograms while sending messages to
the farmer over the old bluetooth. It's technology grand?
What get's me is the newest form of annoyance, the talking smiley. I mean
seriously, you can't just call someone and have a conversation. Now you
need your smiley's to talk because the emotion represented might not be
clear enough? It makes me want to
heh.
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I am kind of sad... the daddy of this thread has been on a couple times,
but seems to be ignoring it... poor orphaned thread...
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Schizo
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posted on 6/12/2006 at 06:13 PM
Yeah, he should at least pay child support or something...
Merry_Widow
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posted on 9/12/2006 at 09:17 AM
Maybe he'll send it a card but forget to call on it's birthday.
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Shadows_of_Death
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posted on 13/12/2006 at 09:46 AM
Sorry for abanding the thread. Ive been busy with getting my grades up in
school and work.
So now I have time for the internet.
I read over what every one has said and I am quiet.... Over whelmed. And
yes I know i have problems with grammatical errors. It is somthing I'm
working very hard to fix.
And as I go on. I'm not some mastermind with the language I speak. (going
into farluces comment about the bastardization of the queens english. I
don't know all about that so I will not talk about that.
And yes abreviated emotes are getting to out of hand. I made the mistake of
using one in my first post. Which wasn't my smartest move.
So yea where did this topic go? From being about the slang that people use
to smilies?
If we talk about LOL and ROFL along with smilies. There is a over abundance
of these. Now its ok to use them if your actually laughing for LOL but if
your laughing so hard your actually Rolling on the Floor Laughing (which
not ever has any one done) thats the use for the ROFL. But to go on about
the smilies with the, > <('.'<) ^.^ X.x XD (i know these because I have used them
alot until recent years)
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yes... it went from slang to slang... one is verbal one is net slang...
and frankly... if you are uspet that the conversation evolves... lol...
this is the wrong place for you... that is what a conversation will evoke
here.. an intellectual discourse taht never ends up where it started...
I applaud you for looking at was said in response to what, by some, was
interpreted as a very arrogant statement, then coming back. that takes
balls... it took evne more to admit mistakes...
the biggest problem I encounter in life is not what I know I am saying but
what others percieve me to be saying... asperger's is like that...I am
overly formal, very literal... and I have no choice but to use the
dictionary definition of the words... as such... people think that I am
arrogant, talking down to them from my choice of words, and obstinate... I
make an effort to do away with that conception...
pick your words carefully lest you get jumped again... because if I notice
somethig sounds NON-PC ... there is something wrong
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PC... means that you have the hatred, but you don't want people to know...
so you use words to hide your own hate and ignorance... and it goes too
far... like manhole covers being called personhole covers... and bell boys
being called bell persons...
what I am suggesting is... that if this person is free of the hatred, he
adjust his speech modes to reflect it... and if he has it... that he's
retarded... but I think he is free from it...
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Shadows_of_Death
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posted on 15/12/2006 at 09:59 AM
And no i dont care that this conversation drifted. Infact I love the fact
that it did. It allows me to learn more about the people here and how to
be. Anything I can learn from is great.
And PC (politically correct) I'm assuming.
Being PC is what people who cant speak there mind are afraid to do. Me I
dont say racial slurs enless there my good friends and then we're just
playing around. If you live in a tightnit community nothing like this can
go on. Every thing you say to someone else has to be carefully chosen.
And now im off to go watch superman in my computer graphics class.
"Being PC is what people who cant speak there mind are afraid to do"
I disagree... I know a man that is very PC... and he means it... he is very
socially conscious... and loves every body...
if you belive in the way you are speaking then it is perfectly
acceptible...
PC for the sake of others is what infuriates me...
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littlegothgirlthatcould
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posted on 1/3/2007 at 04:38 PM
quote:Oh, I would argue that
people are getting stupider and I don't think it matters one wit what the
color of the demographic is. I mean, seriously, have you tried to listen to
teenagers having a conversation anywhere lately. It would be fun if the
make up language that everyone is using were even remotely challenging but
at the end of the day you realize that you have just interpreted nothing
but the most useless drivel. Honest, it was all over the day people started
saying "lol" that was a sign of the end times.
Actuallly, I think thaT I agree with the "lol" thing, because I am on the
computer so much I have actually caught myself saying "lol" out loud
And I don't beleive I am stupid, I think that I get caught up in the
""Ex-citement"" of IM-ing and just can't catch myself everytime...
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littlegothgirlthatcould
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posted on 1/3/2007 at 04:39 PM
by the way sorry for making the convo drift again...
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