It is, with emphasis on the last word there if you want to be taken seriously around here. One of the great things about this board is that the culture promotes the use of proper English skills. There’s the occasional typo and such, but overall it’s a much nicer atmosphere because chat- and leet-speak are discouraged. A lot of posters feel the same way I do on this matter.
Ultimately, its your decision and I don’t give a crap what you do. I’m just genuinely confused on why you’re so gung-ho on not using capital letters.
This from a pseudo intellectual who doesn’t know the difference between I’ll and ill? The first is a contraction of two(heh) separate words, the second is a different word altogether.
Or that okay has an ‘a’ in it?
Stupid flows through you like water does down the Amazon.
cue the whistle
THEME FROM THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
CUT TO:
MAYBERRY, USA SHERIFF’S OFFICE
BARNEYFIFE-MILLER
ANJ! ANJ! ANJ! WHERE ARE YOU, ANJ?
MODERATOR ANDY TAYLOR WALKS IN FROM BACK ROOM
ANDY
BARNEY! WHATS ALL THE RUCKUS?
ANJ! THERE YOU ARE! ANJ! THEY ARE DOING IT AGAIN!
BARN, SIMMER DOWN. WHO IS DOING WHAT?
ANJ! THEY ARE TYPING AGAIN WITHOUT CAPITALS IN THE PIT!
OH BARN, HAVEN’T WE BEEN OVER ALL THIS BEFORE? YOU CAN’T TELL PEOPLE HOW TO TYPE ON A MESSAGE BOARD ON THE INTRAWEBS…WHY…
ANJ! I KNOW WE HAVE DISCUSSED THIS BEFORE BUT IT IS GETTING WORSE BY THE MINUTE, WE NEED TO NIP IT! NIP IT IN THE BUD!
OH BARN, THERE ARE NO RULES ABOUT CAPITALIZATION ON THE SDMB. WHY CAN’T YOU JUST LET PEOPLE BE AND READ WHAT THEY WRITE, THE WAY THEY WRITE, AND TRY TO LEARN SOMETHING FROM THEM?
LEARN SOMETHING FROM THEM? WHY ANJ, PEOPLE WHO DON’T CAPITALIZE LOOK FOOLISH AND NOTHING THEY COULD WRITE COULD HAVE ANY TRUTH IN IT.
BARN, THAT IS JUST NOT…
ANJ, IF WE LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS, THE NEXT THING WE KNOW THEY COULD BE TYPING EBONICS OR SAYING YA’ALL OR TYPING FRENCH WORDS OR…
BARN, THERE REALLY IS NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.
THATS WHERE YOUR WRONG, ANJ
BARN , ARE YOU AWARE THAT YOU TYPED YOUR INSTEAD OF YOU’RE IN THAT LAST SENTENCE?
THERE YOU GO, ANJ! THAT’S THE POINT, AT LEAST I TRIED. THOSE DIRTY FILTHY LITTLE NON CAPITALIZERS DONT EVEN TRY, ANJ. THEY DONT EVEN TRY.
OK BARN, I SEE THAT I CAN’T TALK YOU OUT OF IT. GO AHEAD AND TAKE GOMER-SKALD AND GOOBER-QED AND MAYBE YOU SHOULD TAKE OTIS-JAYN AND TALK TO THESE MONSTERS.
AND TAKE A DICTIONARY WITH YOU, THIS TIME. THE LAST TIME YOU GOT YOUR ASSES HANDED TO YOU BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TO, TOO AND TWO.
THANKS ANJ! THIS TIME WE WON’T REST UNTIL THESE MONSTERS ARE BANNED! BANNED FOR LIFE
Once again confirming what an asshole you are. How many people (myself included) have tried to make you understand that despite what you may have seen elsewhere on the internet, or in the recesses of your mind, at the SDMB we expect people to follow the basic rules of English grammar, spelling, and punctuation if they expect to be taken seriously. It has also been made clear that we acknowledge the possibility of typos like to instead of too and vice-versa, and usually let them slide unless they affect the meaning of what is posted (although occasionally we make jokes about them).
Yet you persist in not only continuing to claim that our customs are wrong and that we are intellectual snobs for following them, but you pull this martyr act about how Miller is persecuting you and you alone (in case you haven’t noticed, you aren’t the only person who has been advised on how people are expected to post here) and take great glee in pointing out minor errors in other people’s posts as if the fact that they made a mistake somehow makes them unfit to dare to criticize anyone else.
I took the trouble to review a bit of your past posting history and noted that you have in the past used capitalization and followed English rules just like the rest of us. Which only confirms the opinion of myself and others that you are just acting like an ass now to get a rise out of people.
That being said, I am through playing your game. Go back to the bridge you crawled out from under and let the grownups alone.
crap
9 dictionary results for: CRAP Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
crap1 /kræp/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[krap] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, crapped, crap·ping.
–noun 1. Vulgar. a. excrement.
b. an act of defecation.
very classy, very cultured
and you better look up its and it’s
or better yet, ms culture, proper english skills, type it first in word, the copy it and paste it so you dont make any more stupid errors while you are lecturing me on proper english
You didn’t even read what I said, did you? I did not say that you can’t write in all lowercase. What I said was that you can’t write in all caps just to piss people off, and then act like a jerk when you succeed.
