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Brentai

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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #120 on: November 15, 2008, 07:22:03 PM »
Quote from: Newbie 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.

This, obviously.  It's where tiny text, emoticons, extra or missing capitals, long lines, subtle links and every other damn thing you people hate comes from.  I guess it's not all that shocking that a bunch of you who have problems with nonverbal communication in real life tend to project that bit onto the internet as well.

Not that I'm entirely making fun of you guys.  I'm obviously hyperlexic* and I'm sure I'm not the only one - can't blame you all for preferring text to subtext.  But, hell, it's boring after a while, dig?

* Yes it is in fact diagnosed thank you for asking.


Quote from: Lady Duke 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.

Heh, I know a girl who does that in reverse.  Bad punctuation means it's time to start kissing ass.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #121 on: November 15, 2008, 08:15:14 PM »
 :suave:
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #122 on: November 15, 2008, 08:42:34 PM »
Conversational text is (in my opinion, at least) pretty different than technical or prose writing. I find that even something like leaving the period off the end of a sentence gives it a different timbre. 75%* of communication is context and nuance, after all. I mean it's not like this is rocket surgery OK


*the other 30% is made-up statistics, obvs
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #123 on: November 15, 2008, 08:45:11 PM »
So, who's going to make the first "High-Context" joke?

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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #124 on: November 15, 2008, 09:37:51 PM »
Quote from: Brentai on November 15, 2008, 07:22:03 PM
But, hell, it's boring after a while, dig?

Only if the text itself is boring, which is always my cue to rely on arbitrary imagery while hoping against hope that others don't discover just how vapid my messages truly are.

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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #125 on: November 15, 2008, 09:59:52 PM »
It's true! When Arc's timer goes off he becomes a 10x as powerful!
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #126 on: November 15, 2008, 10:04:02 PM »
It's not like "arbitrary images" doesn't fit right in with all the other examples of subtext I described.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #127 on: November 15, 2008, 10:19:25 PM »
DO YOU SEE JET FAGUAR DOING ANY OF THIS SHIT? I DON'T THINK SO.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #128 on: November 15, 2008, 10:23:08 PM »
Quote from: Classic Is So Funny on November 15, 2008, 09:59:52 PM
It's true! When Arc's timer goes off he becomes a 10x as powerful!

No, it just means he needs to fucking wrap it up because Earth's atmosphere is killing him.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #129 on: November 15, 2008, 10:35:06 PM »
Quote from: Brentai on November 15, 2008, 10:04:02 PM
It's not like "arbitrary images" doesn't fit right in with all the other examples of subtext I described.

Correct! ~Shuwatch!~

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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #130 on: December 08, 2008, 09:15:03 AM »
Quote from: Norondor on December 08, 2008, 08:37:45 AM
See above post.

Oh, pagebreaks! :happy: You wacky funster!
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #131 on: December 08, 2008, 02:01:44 PM »
STOP IT

I WILL PERSONALLY HUNT DOWN AND KILL EVERYONE WHO DOES A PAGEBREAK JOKE OR A META PAGEBREAK JOKE OR A META META JOKE ABOUT META PAGEBREAK JOKES BUT WILL I HUNT DOWN PEOPLE WHO DO META JOKES ABOUT META JOKES ABOUT META PAGEBREAK JOKES????

I don't know honestly I might let those slide
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Brentai

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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #132 on: December 08, 2008, 02:22:42 PM »
 :MENDOZAAAAA:  I ONCE WAS A MAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #133 on: January 15, 2009, 01:54:19 PM »
Quote from: Mr. Pacobird's Second Grade Class on January 15, 2009, 12:28:20 PM
Haha, did somebody delete my post about not liking Colbert Report?


You guys are amazing.

Simple solution before asking this question:

Profile --> Show the last posts of this person.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #134 on: January 15, 2009, 05:03:49 PM »
...what's amazing is that, after, what, EIGHT GODDAMN YEARS or whatever, people still automatically assume a post that's gone somewhere else has been deleted by an evil admin, even though that's happened, what, like TWICE EVER.

Paco, I expect you to be smarter than Shinra.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #135 on: January 15, 2009, 05:04:55 PM »
Technically I deleted all of Guild's posts in The End thread.

BECAUSE I FUCKING HATE HIM.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #136 on: January 15, 2009, 06:37:06 PM »
Quote from: Robotnik
All this drama is giving me a migraine.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #137 on: January 15, 2009, 09:34:38 PM »
Quote from: Thad on January 15, 2009, 06:37:06 PM
Quote from: Robotnik
All this drama is giving me an erection.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #138 on: January 31, 2009, 10:55:55 AM »
Tiniest text ever created at Stanford.

The author of the article doesn't seem too fond of it either.
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Re: Tiny Text
« Reply #139 on: January 31, 2009, 02:39:10 PM »
accompanied by a picture of a car wash?
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