(Note : This is not an official pronouncement; just my own personal gripe.)
Parody, when well done, is a beautiful thing. Lately however, it has been anything but beautiful.
I’m too fornicating lazy to provide links but I’m sure you’ve seen them. Instead of being a well honed instrument of sarcasm, it’s become the lazy man’s way of belittling another’s opinion or post. For my money, if you have the words to argue your point, use them. Don’t make me try to figure out if you’re serious or not.
To me, the whole “parody thread” thing is just getting as old and tiresome.
Okay, I’ll be th’ serious, yet possibly apple-polishing, one around here.
I agree with you, Eutychus. We all know how the true practitioners of the art of SDMB parody can do it, and have us applauding in our seats. Or splorting coke all over th’ keyboard.
But, there have been too many bastardisations. The bad ones are pathetic. They aren’t funny, just pathetic. Don’t know how such can be stemmed, tho’.
I do that sometimes too. It’s a colloquial spelling. A lot of Americans, and perhaps Kiwis as well, don’t pronounce the “e” in “the.” 'Sides which, it looks cool.
And mad props to Ice Wolf for spelling “tho” with an apostrophe, th’ way God and E.B. White intended.
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Thanks, Miller. When I’m relaxed, I tend to type as I speak – lazily. And Miller is correct – Kiwis do tend to lose "e"s and such in speaking.
Hey, at least I use capital letters an’ paragraphs, right? (Barely, maybe …)
Now, back to your normal programming.
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