Annoying typing habits all of fame.

[Mongoose]

Post the worst typing habits you have seen in forums. This isn't about bad English; it's about people who go out of their way to make their posts as difficult to read as they can, while still being some sort of English.


Never mind. The list wasn't working out.

[Kongamato]

I don't have any links, but I'll describe what I find hard to read.

Centering text and coloring it does make for a difficult to read post. Personally, I don't like reading shortened words like "you -> u" on forums. Shortening seems useful in chat and gaming situations, but on forums it just seems annoying and juvenile.

AnOtHeR ThInG Is ThIs KiNd oF WrItInG. It has been a long time since I've read any of that, but I know it still exists, somewhere.

[discovery1]

Failure to use things like sentences and paragraphs, although I don't ues the latter alot when I make big posts......

[Samurai Waki]

bad grammar, and syntax both irritate me equally.

[Strike For The South]

:surrender:

[Mongoose]

bad grammar, and syntax both irritate me equally.

That isn't really the point of this thread. We're talking about people who GO OUT OF THEIR WAYTO mAkE Their Posts Hard To Read.


I Think I'll Add The Guy Who Wrote Everything Like This And Got mad When People Asked Him To Stop.

:inquisitive:

[Geoffrey S]

Misused caps. And Abokasee.

[Major Robert Dump]

hahahaha you put "all of fame"

[Shaka_Khan]

Post the worst typing habits you have seen in forums. This isn't about bad English; it's about people who go out of their way to make their posts as difficult to read as they can, while still being some sort of English.


I'll start with some thing new...
#1
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showpost.php?p=732479&postcount=46


And I declare that anything you say bounces back to you.


edit- Sorry. I misunderstood the directions.

[matteus the inbred]

i proof read for a living, don't even get me started...!
typos to the point of incoherency are annoying; you know someone's probably making a really good and useful point, but it might as well be in Sanskrit.

[Geoffrey S]

My mother was proof-reading an english text the other day, it's by some Dutch bloke who decided to write his book on management in English; not only is the spelling atrocious, the sentence structures make no sense and the content is utter piffle. One of his analogies turned into something about elephants dancing to the worker's music, and lost track of any kind of logic whatsoever. Annoying for my mother, because she has to make some kind of sense of it all without changing the meaning.

[matteus the inbred]

and there was me thinking most Dutch people had better English than i do!
the frustrating thing about proof-reading rather than copy-editing is that i can't actually alter the content even if it's rubbish...just check spelling and grammar.

the use of the word utilise winds me up and all. as does all management-speak, not we get that on the forums happily. perhaps someone should write an 'empire' report in management-speak!
'i initiated a proactive executive handover strategy' = i invaded his damn country
'project setback due to competitive utilisation of aerodynamic low-technology projectiles' = shot full of arrows
and so forth...

[Weebeast]

I don't like it when people typing in ghetto English. It's cool if you have accent and all but unless it's for "saving time and energy" reason I hate it. For example people type "souljah" instead of "soldier." I mean both words got the same amount of characters.

[Scurvy]

i do this all the time, i cant tell the difference between there and their i also hate random smileys :furious3:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I hate it when people leave the "h" off of "hall" :p

[Viking]

i`ve never fancied posts without capitals.. just had to try it out..

i don`t like POSTS WITH FREQUENT USE OF CAPS LOCK either.

[Duke Malcolm]

I hate: posts in foreign; a noticeable lack of capital letters; a noticeable lack of punctuation (for longer posts); bad punctuation; childish short hand (luv, ur, r, l8r, 4, da, and so on); a lack of any order to a sentence, and others which don't come to mind immediately.

[Mongoose]

hahahaha you put "all of fame"

Fixed. I'll always wonder why I didn't see that in the first place.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

My blood's boiling over mistakes in this very thread!

Capitalize the first letter in every sentence!

There's such a thing as a "shift key," you know.

[Scurvy]

Capitalize the first letter in every sentance!

There's such a thing as a "shift key," you know.

For those of us who cant touch type thats quite difficult :)

and also i dont like huge blocks of writing

[Ja'chyra]

My blood's boiling over mistakes in this very thread!

Capitalize the first letter in every sentance!

There's such a thing as a "shift key," you know.

I think you'll find that it's sentence :laugh4:

[Louis VI the Fat]

NM, beaten to it.

[Craterus]

I hate: posts in foreign; a noticeable lack of capital letters; a noticeable lack of punctuation (for longer posts); bad punctuation; childish short hand (luv, ur, r, l8r, 4, da, and so on); a lack of any order to a sentence, and others which don't come to mind immediately.

Bingo! Me too.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I think you'll find that it's sentence :laugh4:

It's one of those laws of the internet that if you make a post criticizing someone else's spelling you will make a spelling mistake yourself.

[Craterus]

I'm usually impeccable when nitpicking.

[Viking]

My blood's boiling over mistakes in this very thread!

Capitalize the first letter in every sentance!

There's such a thing as a "shift key," you know.


well, it`s always fun to not capitalize words, just to cause annoyance. :shame:


I'm usually impeccable when nitpicking.

:laugh4:

[Byzantine Prince]

I hate it when people say "me" instead of "I" where appropriate. I hate it when write sentences that don't make any sense (ie anything by STFS, and Redleg). I also hate it when people capitalize every single word. GAH!

I guess Texans don't make great writers. :shrugs:

[Beirut]

I hate it when write sentences that don't make any sense.


You were saying... :inquisitive:

[Don Corleone]

I do this myself sometimes, so don't get too offended if I'm talking about you.

I hate it when people structure a post like this:

< And I know that my hypothesis is right for 4 essential reasons:

First, blah blah blah.

B, blah blah blah.

And finally, blah. Like I said, I was right> End of Post.

I find myself scanning and scanning, looking for item 4, D, IV, whatever... Not in there as it turns out.

I also don't care for when people don'tbreak up long posts into paragraphs. Either shorten the post, or give us some white space. Old men's eyes tire easily, and it's not like you're wasting paper! :no:

[Viking]

You were saying... :inquisitive:

hehe...

this could be true,


It's one of those laws of the internet that if you make a post criticizing someone else's spelling you will make a spelling mistake yourself.

or it was done on purpose. :coffeenews:

[Monarch]

My blood's boiling over mistakes in this very thread!

Capitalize the first letter in every sentance!

There's such a thing as a "shift key," you know.

I'm with you. Also I don't like it when people do not capitalize I. It just looks wrong lol.

By the way, you do not need the be able to touch type to use a shift key, I can touch type odd words and phrases but not properly at all and I can use the shift key. :)

Oh and that 'souljah' thing or whatever the 'spelling' of soldier was; before I read the end of the sentence I had no idea what the word was. I mean thats worse than you>u because it's not even a shortening. It's just...stupidity :wall:

[Byzantine Prince]

or it was done on purpose. :coffeenews:
It is a secret I will hold to the grave. :2thumbsup: :skull: :2thumbsup:

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Well I'm thoroughly mortified.

:oops:

:skull:

It's still annoying, though.

ie, i really hate this

it gets worse when combined w/other grammatical flaws

btw, fyi, im just doing this an an example, imho

:skull:

[jimmyM]

puttingitallintosomeunreadablegunkwithlotsof LOl lOl!!111zzzxcv etc.etc.

thinking inserting the word like into sentences at least five (unneccessary) times will make it easier to follow/empathise with....

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I think I'm going to kill myself. :wall:

[ArcticSonata]

Wat Ru t4lkinabouthow uzez l33t n p0st LYK an idIot?

How that for annoying hall of fame

[aw89]

My eyes! My eyes!

On a more serious note, I REALY hate people who don't paragraph post. My head hurts just looking at it.
Also, people who just ignore the "spell check" even if their spelling is horrible. (Not because of ignorance, people who just don't give a shit)

[frogbeastegg]

You people are hardly trying. Frankly I am disappointed. :stretches typing fingers, takes a deep breath, and goes into Foreign Language Mode:



lolz!!!!11!!1 u r all da n00bs!!11!1!!111111111111! u cant speelz. i can so ther. lolzzz!!!1! u make me sic u n00bz!11!!!11 i'z der r0x0rz to u!!!!u all sux-rs so hard coz i finish da game in like 2 minutes!!1! on hard modez!!!! this tw crap is all for n00bs anyhow coz it is like no bl00dz!!11! OMFG!! No TKing!! like how lame is that??!??! i wantz to pwn u all like you dumb n00bz deserrvez!!11!! dis game for da n00bz!!! SAD!!!! u n00bz shut up and listen as i tellz you to beat teh gamez. u sux0rs!!! n00bs neeeeed to hit this code for da winz: ctrl+alt+del lolz!!!!!11!!11 u do that and see how l33t u are, n00bs!!1!!11!

i'z the bestest. U r all n00bs!!1!!1!1 OMG!!11 lolz!!!

oh and a q - how do u get to i-land in the medyevil game? cuz i is like da master!1!!1 and dis game is broke cuz i don't get therr. Lame!!1!!1! iz cheeting on me when i have all da skillz and thsi game so broke!!!!1!!1!1!

lolz!!! and u never guess waht. i fed the mnaual to my hampsters!1!!1! lolz!!1!!1! tey died!1!!1!! how c00l is that!?!??? manuals is for l4mers and n00bs!!1!!1! lolz!!11



Now that is a bit more like it.

[Sartaq]

Are you trying to say that we are noobs?? :inquisitive:
What is TKing?

[frogbeastegg]

Team killing, a multiplayer term. Our 'delightful' friend there wants to go and kill his own allies to show how uber he is, because everyone is a n00b except him and deserves it.

The scary thing is I have seen real posts like that :hide:

[Geoffrey S]

Be honest now. You've done that before, haven't you?

[Mongoose]

If you don't believe what frogbeastegg just said, click on this link:http://forums.lucasarts.com/forum.jspa?forumID=65

You won't have to look long before you get the point.

Edit: Looks like they cleared the board up. Used to be alot worse.

TK'er:

One who stabs team mates in the back. Usually, they're nerds with a high skill to pride ration that prevents them from enjoying playing agianst the other team. They prefer to shoot people who have recently joined because after awhile, their team mates get tierd of them and start pwning(their word, not mine) them.


Funny story about a Tk'er We'll call him "Nerd". I was palying Battlefront II on hoth, and Nerd got into the ATAT, and started firing at us. When me and afew team mates rushed up to the ATAT and started destroying it, he asked us to stop.:juggle2:

[Spetulhu]

One of the worst things is a guy who has a lot to say about the subject at hand but he's so busy saying it that he can't be bothered to use punctuation sentences or anything else that could make it easier to understand what he's talking about.

That's not the longest run-on sentence I've seen, just a pitiful pointer.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

:surrender:

Lol, yeah dude, you've got horrible grammar, spelling and everything. I'm sure I'm not perfect and it only takes a couple reads to figure out what you are trying to say. ;)

[solypsist]

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[Lanemerkel1]

I don't have any links, but I'll describe what I find hard to read.

Centering text and coloring it does make for a difficult to read post. Personally, I don't like reading shortened words like "you -> u" on forums. Shortening seems useful in chat and gaming situations, but on forums it just seems annoying and juvenile.

AnOtHeR ThInG Is ThIs KiNd oF WrItInG. It has been a long time since I've read any of that, but I know it still exists, somewhere.



http://xsorbit27.com/users5/internationalbaseball/index.php



all over the place,
I personally never go there anymore
childish people who call themselves humans yet the only way they judge a man's stature is on the amount of pubic relations he's had with paris hilton, they couldn't type "Yes" in that kind of simple typing they had to be like the stupid YeS bullcrap.

[Lanemerkel1]

If you don't believe what frogbeastegg just said, click on this link:http://forums.lucasarts.com/forum.jspa?forumID=65

You won't have to look long before you get the point.

Edit: Looks like they cleared the board up. Used to be alot worse.

TK'er:

One who stabs team mates in the back. Usually, they're nerds with a high skill to pride ration that prevents them from enjoying playing agianst the other team. They prefer to shoot people who have recently joined because after awhile, their team mates get tierd of them and start pwning(their word, not mine) them.


Funny story about a Tk'er We'll call him "Nerd". I was palying Battlefront II on hoth, and Nerd got into the ATAT, and started firing at us. When me and afew team mates rushed up to the ATAT and started destroying it, he asked us to stop.:juggle2:

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH


Typical coward

"please, stand here while I kill you, oh and I'm new at this so please don't kill me"

[Lanemerkel1]

I hate: posts in foreign; a noticeable lack of capital letters; a noticeable lack of punctuation (for longer posts); bad punctuation; childish short hand (luv, ur, r, l8r, 4, da, and so on); a lack of any order to a sentence, and others which don't come to mind immediately.



Join the club



:furious3:

[Lanemerkel1]

Excuse the quadruple post, I'm one of those idiots who can't ever do multiple subjects with one post. :wall:

However, shouldn't this thread be named Annoying typing habits hall of shame?

[frogbeastegg]

No, I'm just a fast study. I used to read the gamefaqs forums on occasion. Go there and you will see all sorts of Gah! inducing habits. Especially on the console boards, where little children pretending to be adults flame and bash over which console is the best.

[Ja'chyra]

Are we allowed to name names?

[Beirut]

Are we allowed to name names?

Mmmm..... no.

[Ja'chyra]

Mmmm..... no.

Lol, didn;t think so :laugh4:

[Viking]

Lol, didn;t think so :laugh4:

Spelling mistake. :gah:

[master of the puppets]

i like that kind of type, for christmas my sister simply got me a white shirt with bold print stating

STFUPLZ,
its great :laugh4:

[Geoffrey S]

No, I'm just a fast study. I used to read the gamefaqs forums on occasion. Go there and you will see all sorts of Gah! inducing habits. Especially on the console boards, where little children pretending to be adults flame and bash over which console is the best.
Ah, Gamefaqs. Those boards are horrible; it often seems like reason took a vacation when some of those people decided to post.

[Lanemerkel1]

Ah, Gamefaqs. Those boards are horrible; it often seems like reason took a vacation when some of those people decided to post.



the FAQs and Cheats there aren't too bad but the Reviews and Forums? :gah: