Originally Posted by CaptainObvious

yo dude, wat r u takin bout. I thin that all that stuf aint so impotent has yp thin itis

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Originally Posted by trakkerman

...developing a language variant...may soon become part of the required curriculum in the California school systems.

Originally Posted by trakkerman

Too much time in chat rooms...developing a language variant...may soon become part of the required curriculum in the California school systems.

Originally Posted by ComradeMikhail

I'm 15 and I like to believe that I use proper spelling and grammar... I use proper spelling, capitalization, and punctuation when I can..... I don't understand why they would choose to use abbreviations/misspelled words like "u r kewl". Is it that much of an effort to type the extra 2 letters?

Originally Posted by dklink2000

Maybe I’m just getting old.

Originally Posted by 250girl

In school, it took two days to learn what my Mom could teach me in twenty minutes at home.

So maybe it isn't lazy teenagers, as much as it is the failure of the public school system.

Originally Posted by sixds

I blame msn and texting.

Originally Posted by Rich Rohrich

We were texting on Unix machines more than 25 years ago, and a lot of us were using ICQ and PowWow when there were only a few thousand people worldwide who even knew what the term "Instant Messaging" meant. In spite of that we still manage to put coherent sentences together.

Sloth, stupidity, and a general who gives a **** attitude is to blame, not technology.

They better grow some more trees to make sure the supply of paper hats doesn't run out for these dolts.

Originally Posted by AlaskanRider

Hey, contrary to popular belief not everyone that's young like me types like that all of the time. But when I'm instant messaging..I use it, when I'm not Instant messaging, I spell correctly and use grammar. And to answer your question. Yes it's getting worse and worse as days go by.

Originally Posted by 250girl

So maybe it isn't lazy teenagers, as much as it is the failure of the public school system.

Originally Posted by 250girl

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* 250 girl gets banned for flaming a moderator*

Originally Posted by 250girl

wow, I am amazed.For being a moderator, your grammar sure isn't great.First thing I noticed is that lack of a period at the end of your final sentence.The second thing I noticed is the pathetic structure of your second paragraph.The word, "until" made no sense in that sentence.

Originally Posted by 250girl via the translator

Hey Kettle! This is Pot! You're BLACK!

Originally Posted by XRpredator

I believe it is grammatically correct to put two spaces after a period

Originally Posted by truespode

Not the case anymore. They have changed that recently yet I still use two.

Originally Posted by XRpredator

well, I'll give that to you, but I would think that at least one space should be used, right?

Originally Posted by Rich Rohrich

Welcome to the future filled with the tragically hip, the fashionably queer, and the functionally illiterate. McDonald's new signs will say over 1 billion EMPLOYED, because it's a sure bet none of these lazy communication impaired dolts will make it through the interview for any real job.

Originally Posted by XRpredator

Let me use the Red Foreman Translator (*patent pending*) on this missive by 250girl:

ah, I see why when I put 250girl's post through the translator I got that result. I believe it is grammatically correct to put two spaces after a period, unless the rules are different when you are typing Canadian (and they very well could be).

In other words, there's something about glass houses and throwing stones (or was it stone houses and throwing glasses?)

I love you

your pal,

Pred.

Originally Posted by biglou

I use eleven, just to be sure.

Originally Posted by d!rty

As it was stated earlier. I am used to MS programs and the auto correct feature so I rarely go back over what I just wrote and correct my mistakes, well and I really don't care if I mispelled anything. It's an internet forum not a legal document. But thats just me

Originally Posted by d!rty

It's an internet forum not a legal document. But thats just me

Originally Posted by d!rty

As it was stated earlier. I am used to MS programs and the auto correct feature so I rarely go back over what I just wrote and correct my mistakes, well and I really don't care if I mispelled anything. It's an internet forum not a legal document. But thats just me

Originally Posted by a454elk

I give alot of room before and during a period, I tend to move closer after.

Originally Posted by Rich Rohrich

If you bothered to actually read the thread, you would see the salient point is not a few words incorrectly typed. No one in their right mind cares about such things in this type of setting. The issue lies with the mouth-breathing drooler set that can't be bothered to even try an communicate properly. These same lunkheads wonder why people don't rush to their aid when they type some gibberish post requesting help on a problem.

Those same communication impaired mutts will one day find themselves working low paying monkey work jobs, because in "real life" employers have little tolerance for that sort of apathetic approach to their jobs and the communication skills most require to accomplish even simple tasks. At some point these text-centric dolts lose what meager communication skills they might have had at one point, and rarely get through an interview as a result.

But I guess the world needs ditch diggers and bus boys to work the midnight shift at the Denny's in Peoria.


BTW, you misspelled "misspelled" as "mispelled".

Originally Posted by kiwijohn

Misspelled or misspelt seems like a nice way of saying, "Terribly sorry to point this out old chap, but I have a feeling the letters you've chosen to use in that particular sequence may not be entirely correct".

Originally Posted by kiwijohn

Here's a good comparison: "Dash it all I seem to have missdriven my car into your fence..... "

Originally Posted by Ol'89r

Very smart.

Originally Posted by 250girl

Originally posted by a454elk; I give a lot of room before and during a period, I tend to move closer after.



On a more serious note, how much room is there technicially supposed to be after or before the period? I have heard there is a large controversy over this.

Originally Posted by Rich Rohrich

But I guess the world needs ditch diggers and bus boys to work the midnight shift at the Denny's in Peoria.

Originally Posted by XRpredator

back when I took typing class (and it was still typing class, on typewriters, no less -- the "jitterbug" of word processors), I learned there should be one space after a comma or a semi-colon, and two spaces after a period and after a colon.
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Originally Posted by XRpredator

and while I had the lovely Lorien, who used to be a man, sitting next to me who could type fast enough to do both of our classwork for the day.

Originally Posted by a454elk

I'm weird man. And I like weird men. In the weirdest ways.

Originally Posted by XRpredator

no, I'M weird.

Originally Posted by a454elk

Close the thread quickly.