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pandaemonaeum) wrote2004-05-23 09:57 am
pandaemonaeum) wrote2004-05-23 09:57 am
Today I continue being a bitch
Yesterday I joined a debate on a local internet message board. The board tends towards flamey, and childish. I put up some of my thoughts on the fashion industry, in response to something posted by a regular poster. Looked like he/she was posting chunks of questions for a coursework essay.
Someone cut a single comment of mine, replying with ROFLMAO. Then they underlined it and issued some vague threats. I posted back, challenging them to back up their argument. Today I went back there, and the poster is saying I flamed her, and mis-read what she said. WTF? I've invited her to report me to the mods. She said I was 'too quick to flame people' (actually, it was "u r 2 quick to flame ppl"). LOL!
So continues my campaign for clarity in posting on the internet. We have a rich and varied language, and yet we reduce it to abbreviations and text speak. I've done it twice myself above. We are losing the beauty of our language in a barrage of baby talk, reducing its complexity to include the lowest common denominator. You go onto message boards and people cannot spell, they speak in text abbreviations, and they use strange and complex abbreviations to replace a compliment like 'That's funny!', which only takes a second more to type. And don't even start me on grammar or punctuation - my feeling is that these things are rapidly becoming an endangered species in light of the poor level of education the majority of people I converse with on the internet have received. Sometimes I need to read things aloud to understand them, they are so poorly written.
Now I have finished my grump :) I eagerly await everyone taking the piss and posting back to me in text speak! :D
Someone cut a single comment of mine, replying with ROFLMAO. Then they underlined it and issued some vague threats. I posted back, challenging them to back up their argument. Today I went back there, and the poster is saying I flamed her, and mis-read what she said. WTF? I've invited her to report me to the mods. She said I was 'too quick to flame people' (actually, it was "u r 2 quick to flame ppl"). LOL!
So continues my campaign for clarity in posting on the internet. We have a rich and varied language, and yet we reduce it to abbreviations and text speak. I've done it twice myself above. We are losing the beauty of our language in a barrage of baby talk, reducing its complexity to include the lowest common denominator. You go onto message boards and people cannot spell, they speak in text abbreviations, and they use strange and complex abbreviations to replace a compliment like 'That's funny!', which only takes a second more to type. And don't even start me on grammar or punctuation - my feeling is that these things are rapidly becoming an endangered species in light of the poor level of education the majority of people I converse with on the internet have received. Sometimes I need to read things aloud to understand them, they are so poorly written.
Now I have finished my grump :) I eagerly await everyone taking the piss and posting back to me in text speak! :D