A CT thread for those that aren't Critical Thinkers

[RandomPscho]

Re: A CT thread for those that aren't Critical Thinkers

LOL Squeek. Yes that is a laugh out loud, not a thinking of laughing.

I do agree though, that "lol" is being overused, when I say it usually I am actually laughing. Very annoying when said after everything.

[dunlop]

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I have a question to pose to people that use any form of alternate spellings on common words, such as abbreviating the words "you" and "are" as "u" and "r" respectively, or for some reason, add the letter z to the end of everything or use multiple punctuation marks at the end of a particular sentence. (hey u guyz whatz up??)

Why do you do it?

I read your response, and looked at the sentence again.

It is indeed a sentence, albeit a lousy one. It has a subject (I), a verb (have) and an object (question).

I just think you could have worded it much better.

[MixMasterLar]

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I read your response, and looked at the sentence again.

It is indeed a sentence, albeit a lousy one. It has a subject (I), a verb (have) and an object (question).

I just think you could have worded it much better.

If there are only two people on this thread that know grammer, Laharl and Squeek.

Let's face it, they'er right. the only thing I disagree with is the 'lol' bit but otherwise they have proper posting grammer. You end up looking like an idiot when you use cumputer slang.

[DraikRoan]

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...."cumputer" slang.

heheh. Watch it next time :P It is spelled COMputer :P.

[Grandiagod]

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If there are only two people on this thread that know grammer, Laharl and Squeek.

Let's face it, they'er right. the only thing I disagree with is the 'lol' bit but otherwise they have proper posting grammer. You end up looking like an idiot when you use cumputer slang.

Nice job either starting your first sentence with "If". Also let's not forget, spelling they're wrong, not capitalizing "the" at the begining of a sentence, and spelling compter wrong.

[Patashu]

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spelling and grandma is overrated

[DraikRoan]

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Nice job starting your first sentence with "If". Also lets' not forget spelling "they're" wrong, not capitalizing the "the" at the beginning of a sentence, and then spelling computer wrong.

You stand corrected. :P

[iggymatrixcounter]

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IMO, 'lol' is a disclaimer that implies that what I just said can't be taken seriously.

I don't really see the huge problem. I mean yea it's not "Engish major" correct, but internet forums don't have a high level of formality.

It's like using "you" in an English essay (don't do it), "lol" and it's other short hand typing just denote how formal the text is. Spelling horribly but being understood shows a low level of importance and significance, not a low level of intellignece. (Though people tend to take you less seriously, but that's the point for typing in such a way)

[MixMasterLar]

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Nice job either starting your first sentence with "If". Also let's not forget, spelling they're wrong, not capitalizing "the" at the begining of a sentence, and spelling compter wrong.

Point taken. I wasn't trying to be smart, I was just in a rush.

[Grandiagod]

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You stand corrected. :P

Hey, at least it was a bit less noticable right?

Guess not...

[lord_carbo]

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Time to add my couple of cents.

I usually don't bother capitalizing the first letter of a line in AIM unless it's a proper noun or the pronoun "I". It's just much faster for me if I'm not typing anything that's less than a sentence long because I usually just whip my fingers onto the keyboard and start typing. Other than that, there's really no difference and, hey, there shouldn't be. Your pinkey finger on a regular QWERTY keyboard is sitting there most of the time doing nothing (I rarely even use my pinkey for "'", "?", or "]", I usually sweep my hand over and use my middle finger for those).

When you've really mastered typing, it only takes a quick few seconds use "ur" instead of "your" and other dumb stuff like that in a 3 or 4 sentence paragraph. Unnoticable and it doesn't make you look like a moron.


As a side note, I really like when Guido and Squeek constantly correct my spelling and grammar =)

[Izzi]

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Even squeek relizes its just laziness.