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alphageek31337 · 10-29-2004, 04:44 AM

Honestly, I didn't read it. I couldn't. I try to avoid reading anything from people who think that typing the "e" in the word "be" and the "yo" in the word "you" is too much effort. Nasty habit I picked up when I used to use AOL, but it effectively weeds out moronic posters. If you're going to use my language to try to communicate with me, I demand mastery, subtlety and care in its use. I can even stand to read people who do the whole "Thee Temple of Psychick Youth" thing, where they play around with spelling and phonetics. That is obviously a conscious process, similar to Cockney rhyming slang, and it's playing a game with the language. Subconsciously shortening everything to save effort, however, is not interesting at all.

Edit: Caught the last line, and I can never support any work that uses the phrase "Life is rain." My evaluation is stolen from SomethingAwful's "Your Band Sucks" series of articles:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
This is absolutely the worst shit I've ever seen
I'm leaving

10-29-2004, 04:44 AM	#13
alphageek31337 Enemy Combatant/Evildoer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 263	Honestly, I didn't read it. I couldn't. I try to avoid reading anything from people who think that typing the "e" in the word "be" and the "yo" in the word "you" is too much effort. Nasty habit I picked up when I used to use AOL, but it effectively weeds out moronic posters. If you're going to use my language to try to communicate with me, I demand mastery, subtlety and care in its use. I can even stand to read people who do the whole "Thee Temple of Psychick Youth" thing, where they play around with spelling and phonetics. That is obviously a conscious process, similar to Cockney rhyming slang, and it's playing a game with the language. Subconsciously shortening everything to save effort, however, is not interesting at all. Edit: Caught the last line, and I can never support any work that uses the phrase "Life is rain." My evaluation is stolen from SomethingAwful's "Your Band Sucks" series of articles: Roses are red Violets are blue This is absolutely the worst shit I've ever seen I'm leaving __________________ The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ---Friedrich Nietzsche Last edited by alphageek31337; 10-29-2004 at 04:50 AM.