# I can't take you seriously. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210 "2010-05-21T02:18:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/1 "2010-05-21T02:18:48Z")
I just can’t. It’s your fault, but I don’t blame you for it. You’re probably not that stupid, you might even be intelligent. But when you type without punctuation, and randomly hit the enter key to skip to the next line, you seem like a moron. It probably doesn’t help that you refuse to even attempt proper punctuation, and your grammar is poorer than my six year old cousins. Yeah, English might be your second language, and I’m willing to make some concessions on proper spelling, grammar and punctuation, but to not attempt it, while trying to be clever or witty, makes you look like a moron. Really, I promise, it’s not me, it’s you. And you know who you are. I feel no urge to “name names,” because I don’t want to make you feel bad, but c’mon… You really can’t tell that everyone else on a forum is typing in a certain way, and you’re typing like a jackass? ETA: Not aimed at anyone specific, but in general. There are a few. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/2 "2010-05-21T02:28:29Z")
hey ,jerk thats what i thought ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/3 "2010-05-21T02:31:04Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > I just can’t. It’s your fault, but I don’t blame you for it. You’re probably not that stupid, you might even be intelligent. But when you type without punctuation, and randomly hit the enter key to skip to the next line, you seem like a moron. > > It probably doesn’t help that you refuse to even attempt proper punctuation, and your grammar is poorer than my six year old cousins. Yeah, English might be your second language, and I’m willing to make some concessions on proper spelling, grammar and punctuation, but to not attempt it, while trying to be clever or witty, makes you look like a moron. > > Really, I promise, it’s not me, it’s you. And you know who you are. I feel no urge to “name names,” because I don’t want to make you feel bad, but c’mon… You really can’t tell that everyone else on a forum is typing in a certain way, and you’re typing like a jackass? > ETA: Not aimed at anyone specific, but in general. There are a few. no U!!!1 C’mon, who is it?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/4 "2010-05-21T02:34:19Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > C’mon, who is it?😃 A good half of my facebook friends. No, wait…not the good half… ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/5 "2010-05-21T02:44:22Z")
phuk yo eye no fisics an shit watt you got goen fur u? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/6 "2010-05-21T03:11:12Z")
NoideawaturtalkinaboutdumbassmotherfuckerMydialectofIngleshispurfectlyvalid&urjustanelitistasshole. rly. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/7 "2010-05-21T03:24:23Z")
YEAH THAT RLY IS ANNOYlNG DO THEY TYPE LIKE THIS TO ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/8 "2010-05-21T03:36:14Z")
I don’t think it’s very nice to make fun of your poverty-stricken, six year old cousins. ---
**Author:** ![kingbighair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kingbighair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingbighair)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/9 "2010-05-21T03:48:34Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > Yeah, English might be your second language, and I’m willing to make some concessions on proper spelling, grammar and punctuation, but to not attempt it, while trying to be clever or witty, makes you look like a moron. Is this a comma splice, thus making it a run-on sentence? Just wondering. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/10 "2010-05-21T03:55:58Z")
wHaTeVa. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/11 "2010-05-21T04:23:32Z")
There is also no need to use 10 separate ellipses in one paragraph (something I’ve seen in another thread), it makes what you are saying sound weak and halting. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/12 "2010-05-21T04:55:44Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > Yeah, English might be your second language I was with you until here. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/13 "2010-05-21T05:01:25Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > I don’t think it’s very nice to make fun of your poverty-stricken, six year old cousins. I make fun of them to their face all of the time, why wouldn’t I make fun of them online? > [@kingbighair](#): > > Is this a comma splice, thus making it a run-on sentence? Just wondering. 😉 It’s a conversational sentence. It’s not proper English, but it’s conversational English which is acceptable in pretty much any scenario that isn’t formal – namely, a forum. It’s also an _attempt_ at decent English, even if it’s not perfect. Which is all that I ask for in the OP. Not perfection, but the attempt at semi-legible non-garbage. > [@cckerberos](#): > > I was with you until here. Why aren’t you with me there? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/14 "2010-05-21T05:27:03Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > I make fun of them to their face all of the time, why wouldn’t I make fun of them online? Er…_whoosh_? ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/15 "2010-05-21T05:33:04Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Er…_whoosh_? Oh, no, I understood the woosh. I just wanted to include the fact that I make fun of my family on a regular basis. If you knew my family, you’d understand why. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/16 "2010-05-21T05:40:03Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > ETA: Not aimed at anyone specific, but in general. There are a few. It’s the Pit, mofo. Grow a spine and name names. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/17 "2010-05-21T05:43:53Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > It’s the Pit, mofo. Grow a spine and name names. Most of them aren’t even on SDMB. A few of them are real life friends, family or (former) coworkers, a few from other forums, and one or two from this forum that I typically skip over when they post because I don’t feel like deciphering their shit. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/18 "2010-05-21T05:44:31Z")
Oh, if it’s your _family_… fuck 'em. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/19 "2010-05-21T05:51:24Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > It probably doesn’t help that you refuse to even attempt proper punctuation, and your grammar is poorer than my six year old cousins. That’d be “cousin’s”. Unless you have more than one of them aged six, in which case, “cousins’”. Shame - I was taking you seriously until that point. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210/20 "2010-05-21T06:11:23Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > That’d be “cousin’s”. Unless you have more than one of them aged six, in which case, “cousins’”. > > Shame - I was taking you seriously until that point. Since I don’t have any six year old cousins, currently, we can assume they’re plenty plural. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-take-you-seriously/540210.md?page=2)