# Dudes of straight dope, if I type in proper english... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2013, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899 "2013-09-15T08:14:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![sentrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@sentrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sentrix)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/141 "2013-09-16T17:23:35Z")
there will always be a minority who want the english language to remain as frozen as a beast, that doesn’t admit changes…but language and usage is a vibrant, evolving animal. here dag if you don’t like the urban dic [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=378917](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=378917) ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/142 "2013-09-16T17:31:31Z")
> [@sentrix](#): > > as a newbie i find it wildy riveting that 105 posts have been devoted to the topic of a poster’s posting stylee. > > why use a cannon to kill a mosquito? Right you are, everybody knows you should use a [laser](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm8FolQ7jw). ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/143 "2013-09-16T22:12:40Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I hate when people start being all reasonable and intelligent before I have a chance to pile on them for being stupid and irrational. It just takes all the fun out of this board. A agree. It’s one of the perks of not fully reading a thread before you post into it, but then… > [@Broomstick](#): > > Maybe you haven’t gotten the memo yet - the “illiterate fool” is now posting in standard English in all threads he’s participating in and is apparently quite capable and literate. > > Of course, now we’re getting to see who actually reads a thread before posting and who doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/144 "2013-09-16T22:44:25Z")
> [@sentrix](#): > > there will always be a minority who want the english language to remain as frozen as a beast, that doesn’t admit changes…but language and usage is a vibrant, evolving animal. Both of those things are the same thing. People trying to get what they want. Language is a tool. A hammer is no use if it turns into a dildo while you’re swinging it at a nail. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/145 "2013-09-16T22:45:24Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > . . . come down and drink pop and play DnD pretending your female elf characters are your real girlfriends. . . . Well, you just described my typical weekend! ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/146 "2013-09-16T22:51:42Z")
m gng t lmnt ll vwls frm m psts frm nw n. t svs tm nd 'm sr y cn ndrstnd m prfctly wll. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/147 "2013-09-16T23:46:55Z")
> [@sentrix](#): > > there will always be a minority who want the english language to remain as frozen as a beast, that doesn’t admit changes…but language and usage is a vibrant, evolving animal. > > here dag if you don’t like the urban dic [What's "pwned"? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=378917) But text-speak isn’t “vibrant.” It’s simplistic _by design_. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/148 "2013-09-17T00:16:31Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Both of those things are the same thing. People trying to get what they want. > > Language is a tool. A hammer is no use if it turns into a dildo while you’re swinging it at a nail. I wouldn’t say it’s no use. Take a break, enjoy some me time. The nail will still be there later. ---
**Author:** ![sentrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@sentrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sentrix)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/149 "2013-09-17T01:27:45Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > But text-speak isn’t “vibrant.” It’s simplistic _by design_. agreed. fuku2. 555 i was referring to acronyms and colloquial terms which have found their way into common usage, such as lol, rotfl, pwned etc. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/150 "2013-09-17T02:14:05Z")
> [@sentrix](#): > > . . . i was referring to acronyms and colloquial terms which have found their way into common usage, such as lol, rotfl, pwned etc. That, or “in jokes” and jargon. Hi, Opal, or let’s throw things in the quarry, or Pickle Integrity, or whatnot. A modest and sedate usage of informal “boardspeak” promotes communication. We can allude to the threat of intervention by the “mods” without having to say “the board moderators.” There’s just a limit. A break-point, a point of diminishing returns. It’s like people who append thirty copies of the “smack” smiley. Why? One does the job just fine! ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/151 "2013-09-17T03:12:43Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Maybe you haven’t gotten the memo yet - the “illiterate fool” is now posting in standard English in all threads he’s participating in and is apparently quite capable and literate. > > Of course, now we’re getting to see who actually reads a thread before posting and who doesn’t. Well as one who had posted “Too Stupid Didn’t Read” in response to the op without reading much more, it really was an honest point to make to the op. That style results in many just not bothering to read it - too much effort to try to parse out what might be being trying to be said and a likely marker of little of value in the post. It turns out that this op was able to hear that even though some of us did react that way - not reading further based on his initial post. I wouldn’t say that such represents how people handle threads that are presented otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/152 "2013-09-17T03:46:17Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > It’s like people who append thirty copies of the “smack” smiley. Why? One does the job just fine! Sometimes you just want to persuade yourself that you’re beating someone to death (even if it’s only yourself). ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/153 "2013-09-17T07:39:57Z")
> [@3trew](#): > > I wouldn’t say it’s no use. Take a break, enjoy some me time. And the dildo turns into a cactus. Things that keep changing are not typically very useful as tools. ---
**Author:** ![sentrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@sentrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sentrix)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/154 "2013-09-17T13:40:47Z")
…unless it was a latex rubber cactus impersonating a dildo. innovation is good. need is the mother of innovation. think forward young man and all that. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/155 "2013-09-17T14:59:30Z")
… you would still be a moron. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/156 "2013-09-17T19:08:59Z")
Obvious troll is obvious. “Then I awoke. Was I a latex rubber cactus dreaming I was a dildo, or a dildo dreaming I was a latex rubber cactus?” ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/157 "2013-09-17T20:35:07Z")
> [@sentrix](#): > > as a newbie i find it wildy riveting that 105 posts have been devoted to the topic of a poster’s posting stylee. > > why use a cannon to kill a mosquito? We can’t remember where we put the code to release the nukes. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/158 "2013-09-17T20:39:36Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Hey, as long as we don’t have to follow other peoples’ rules, Ohks gool narinna mestle bec sinther sif dasm langter. I don’t think that’s very nice thing to say about your own sister. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Gateway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dbc845/32.png) [@Gateway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gateway)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/159 "2013-09-24T19:23:46Z")
You all: dont care if you think i m immature but: I realized i will post on this forum NEway i want. if you have beef with that, well, too bad. 2 those who r respectful bout this and not oversensitive twits, then: its not bout hurting u. i feel its retarded 2 even have to say that its not a moral obligation for me to conform to ur writing standards. u would think that a debate forum…, well i guess people wouldnt b butthurt if other people typed different from u. if u dont like it hit the ‘back’ button ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dudes-of-straight-dope-if-i-type-in-proper-english/668899/160 "2013-09-24T19:25:59Z")
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