Annoying typing habits hall of fame.
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.
Last edited by Mongoose; 01-08-2006 at 23:55.
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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.
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Failure to use things like sentences and paragraphs, although I don't ues the latter alot when I make big posts......
Last edited by discovery1; 01-04-2006 at 21:53.
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bad grammar, and syntax both irritate me equally.
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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. ;)Originally Posted by strike for the south
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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.
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Misused caps. And Abokasee.
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http://xsorbit27.com/users5/internat...ball/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.
Last edited by Lanemerkel1; 01-09-2006 at 06:05.
Re: Annoying typing habits all of fame.
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/showp...9&postcount=46
And I declare that anything you say bounces back to you.
edit- Sorry. I misunderstood the directions.
Last edited by Shaka_Khan; 01-05-2006 at 13:14.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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i do this all the time, i cant tell the difference between there and their i also hate random smileys
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