Ah, since Magical Trevor “disappeared” the cow, of course. Now, about this “verbing” that thou didst verb?
Yes, I am sure that was deliberate: see if I care. Any excuse to revisit old Trev, I say.
I can handle nonexistent capitalization. I can handle poor punctuation. I can handle bad spelling. The worst for me is bad verb conjugation. Especially when combined with the above three. Just go to Yahoo!Answers and read any question.
Yeah, it’s kind of annoying but I just say to myself “Look! e.e. cummings is posting! Cool!”
Always look on the bright side of life whistles
I was going to refrain from griping this time, but today I got this e-mail from a co-worker:
Wow. I mean, damn. I just…
:eek:
I Agree 100% With The OP. It’s Almost As Annoying As When People Type Like This And You’re Wondering If They Write Headlines For A Living, Or They Just Suffer From Parkinson’s Of The Pinky.
I’ve been known to abuse The Capitals for inflection’s sake, but every single word? What The Hell?
Good thing she used a spellchecker.
People who call themselves the III or the IV. “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt III,” “Marmaduke Hussey IV.” Unless your great-grandfather is still alive or you are European royalty, you are not the goddam III or IV!
I keep coming across a dickhead on Slashdot with a shift-key allergy. Someone once challenged him and his response was, in essence, ‘oh, you don’t need capital letters to get the meaning’ and ‘i just don’t want to do it.’
Cuntbag.
Yeah, what IS with that? Drives me nuts.
~Tasha
I know you didn’t single out anyone, but when a certain poster gets wind of this, something besides your brain is liable to start complaining.
With all the other mistakes in this, I thought “ice cream” was another and I was internally pronouncing it like Mr Burns: “I think I’ll have some more of that ‘iced cream’”.
It works if you leave at least one letter lowercase.
What if your grandfather’s still alive? blah Sr., blah Jr., blah III. Isn’t that right?
- Viridiana The First
ThAt Is At LeAsT bEtTeR tHaN tHiS. gOd, ThIs Is AnNoYiNg. AnD hArD tO tYpE tOo.
If your grandfather is still alive but your father is dead, you are Blah Blah II. If grandfather and father are still alive, you are Blah Blah III, and when Grandpa goes you become Blah Blah, Jr. I am getting weary of pretentious yahoos calling themselves Blah Blah VII.
My husband’s big peeve is people referring to themselves as “myself” when “me” or “I” is correct(“Bill and myself are going to the mall.”). Thanks to himself, it’s one of myself’s now, too.
To the folks who asked about the 9/0 thing plus the punctuation space hopping, my guess is that they’re made by blazing fast/lazy typists who fumble the shift key and/or the space bar. I can clock in at a reasonably fast clip on a good day, and sometimes my right finger just punches the Enter key before the message gets from my eyeballs to my brain that I’ve made a mistake.
To keep this on topic, lessee. There was this one person in my group who would use the word ‘yet’ as a substitute for ‘but’. Now, I agree that in some circumstances you could make a case for it, but the person did it ALL THE FREAKING TIME. crawls up wall hangs from ceiling making wubbawubbawubba noises
Spellin’ nerds? Kill 'em With Fire!
Somebody needs to invent some sort of ‘screening’ device that these people could use to ‘monitor’ their output for errors before submitting it.
I wonder about the space before punctuation thing . Maybe people are accessing the boards through alternate devices ? They’re tapping it out on their cellphones ?