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Thad

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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #100 on: November 15, 2008, 01:42:18 PM »

I've come to expect no punctuation from fucking 'tard talk, but when this happens I'm honestly thrown for a loop.

Speaking of 'tard talk...
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #101 on: November 15, 2008, 01:47:23 PM »

I use all-lowercase when I've just gotten up, am in a bad mood, or when I otherwise feel like it.

I use ALL CAPS when I feel like lower case letters might get emotionally damaged by what I'm about to say.

I use normal grammar when I... when I... when I love you.
 :luv:
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #103 on: November 15, 2008, 01:50:08 PM »

IF A APPLAUDED A HIGH BROW CONECPT IN RETARDED CAPSPEAK WAHT DOES THAT DENOET
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #104 on: November 15, 2008, 01:51:45 PM »

I guess it's just my experience writing poems. You can use punctuation and capitals to achieve desired tone/imagery. It's something I even employ in The End(s).

I can see how it would irk some people, though.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #105 on: November 15, 2008, 01:51:57 PM »

for the record, i don't intentionally misspell things for comedy

(Thad is welcome to quote several counterexamples, because honestly I have no idea what I do and don't do anymore)

I actually had an idea for a character in a story who spoke in all lowercase, to indicate a passionless monotone.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #106 on: November 15, 2008, 02:01:33 PM »

I use normal grammar when I... When I... When I love you. :luv:

:oh:
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #107 on: November 15, 2008, 02:12:44 PM »

Uh, Thad, Arc, if you could point out exactly what I did wrong in that post I'd be grateful. :>_>:

Better than sitting here nervously wondered if I insulted your family lineage and am going to have to avoid dark alleyways for a few weeks.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #108 on: November 15, 2008, 02:15:52 PM »

... a measly missing period.

As with the lower case abuse, I point this out since I've seen more of it lately.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #109 on: November 15, 2008, 02:27:54 PM »

Actually, I was complaining about Arc invoking one of my personal and frequently-discussed pet peeves in talking about his own, using a totally vague and obnoxious link when he could have used a quote tag instead.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #110 on: November 15, 2008, 02:33:10 PM »

ok now dis tred suxz

ill typ my dam post neway i wan 2

is my text

all yalls go fuk yoselfs
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #111 on: November 15, 2008, 02:50:18 PM »

It bugs me when people mix up "thy" and "thou'rt" when typing.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #112 on: November 15, 2008, 03:34:16 PM »

okay that does it im going ee cummings style

Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
i fucked your mom

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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #113 on: November 15, 2008, 03:40:16 PM »

Women and
          men (
bothlittleandsmall
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cared
      for anyone
      not at all

they sowed their
           isn't
they reaped
          their same


i
   fucked
 your mom

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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #114 on: November 15, 2008, 04:03:59 PM »

a measly missing period.

Missing a period is a big deal. Babies are a big deal.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #115 on: November 15, 2008, 04:25:46 PM »

For the record, I do think it's necessary to add periods to sentences and that their omission is not a permissible error. I'm just willing to overlook that as an occasional minor mistake, considering just how egregiously bad some "internet English" I've seen has been.

S'all 'bout puhspective, ya'll.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #116 on: November 15, 2008, 04:27:03 PM »

Uh, Thad, Arc, if you could point out exactly what I did wrong in that post I'd be grateful. :>_>:

Better than sitting here nervously wondered if I insulted your family lineage and am going to have to avoid dark alleyways for a few weeks.

Fortunately, Arc and Thad paid me enough to venture outside the dark alleyways.  :dead:
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #117 on: November 15, 2008, 07:06:15 PM »

Connotation is more difficult on the internet.  Sarcasm likewise.  Body language, tone of voice, and other nonverbal cues let you convey subtext in person that is difficult to reproduce on a computer.

It should not surprise you that people look for other means of reproducing these effects.

Personally, I find artfully butchered grammar sublime.

(Particularly if the person employing the butcher's knife has established a reputation for knowing how to use grammar correctly.  It's almost counter-intuitive: by establishing consistent writing methods, you gain credibility when you deviate from those methods.  Otherwise you just seem to be stylistically flailing--for example, look at people like Classic, or me.)

(alternately, you could always do it intentionally wrong in the same, specific way.  i respect that approach as well.)

Bottom line: breaking the rules of conventionality will always be a useful tool in the communicator's arsenal.  Understand that by doing so, you increase your potential range of expression while alienating a portion of your audience.  I find that is a reasonable trade-off; if someone reading me dismisses my words just because I happened to use a sentence-form she disliked, I'm probably not that interested in getting through to her, anyway.

To address the original topic, however, the important thing is knowing at what point you're alienating so many people that you might as well not be posting in the first place.  Tiny text has crossed that line, for this community.  I'd suggest that emoticon-strings are getting close.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #118 on: November 15, 2008, 07:09:27 PM »

On that note, Kazz (and anybody else I talk to online) can always tell if I'm angry on aim because then I decide to use capitals at the beginning of my sentences, as well as periods at the end of my sentences.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #119 on: November 15, 2008, 07:11:39 PM »

I switch almost at random depending on who I expect will be reading it.
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