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as a long term Vitruian I can honestly say that you have noooo Idea how bad my Grammer can git esp, after a few rum and cokes.
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Because, generally speaking, proper grammar is an indication of your level of intelligence. I don't want to roleplay with a moron. No offense. |
Originally Posted by PhoenixOfSyrinx
So after playing on Virtue for a few days I have realized that all the roleplayers seem to have a complex for having perfect grammar. So my question is this, why are all the virtue players English Majors? lurn 2 not /B anol!
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I am a grammar princess, and thusly piss off people when I correct them. Doesn't bother me in the slightest, because I am a shameless intellectual snob. Suck it. HA!
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I don't expect perfect grammar, but I do expect people to at least try. Using l33t doesn't make a person look cool. They just look lazy and/or stupid. Shorting words makes sense when you are texting, but you have a full easy-to-use keyboard in front of you. Use it. It will help when you get out into the real world. Using l33t in company emails will cost you a raise, promotions, and possibly your very job, if you can get hired in the first place. Any application I get that is filled out in l33t goes straight to the rejects.
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Originally Posted by PhoenixOfSyrinx
So after playing on Virtue for a few days I have realized that all the roleplayers seem to have a complex for having perfect grammar. So my question is this, why are all the virtue players English Majors? lurn 2 not /B anol!
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That makes me sad if someone ACTUALLY put in applications for things in 1337.
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Originally Posted by DocArcus
I don't expect perfect grammar, but I do expect people to at least try. Using l33t doesn't make a person look cool. They just look lazy and/or stupid. Shorting words makes sense when you are texting, but you have a full easy-to-use keyboard in front of you. Use it. It will help when you get out into the real world. Using l33t in company emails will cost you a raise, promotions, and possibly your very job, if you can get hired in the first place. Any application I get that is filled out in l33t goes straight to the rejects.
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Yeah, the Freakshow have really tightened their hiring practices. Nowadays, it's not just enough to have more hardware than a mechanic.
You actually need to follow the set procedures.
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Who-ho-ho-hoa there, broseph. This is a joke thread. Couldn't you tell?|
Originally Posted by DocArcus
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Honestly. People need to turn their "serious business" switches down or something.
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What really boggles my mind is when someone uses text-esque abbreviations in speech. I was walking through a store a couple months back, and I actually heard someone say "btw." Now, it wasn't the fact that they used an abbreviation that intrigued me, so much as it was the fact that they used that particular abbreviation, which takes longer to say than the "long" form.|
Originally Posted by Sorah
That makes me sad if someone ACTUALLY put in applications for things in 1337.
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(Incidentally, I have the same reaction to the use of "GSW" instead of "gunshot wound" in medical dramas. Stop wasting time with those two extra syllables -- or one, if you're a "dubya"-er -- while the patient's trying to bleed out on us!)
Major James Ashe
Mainly because l33t speak is a dying internet meme circa 2001.
Get with the times man.
Reasons to not associate with those that use 'Elite' Speak
1. This would become our future!
2. It's often times far easier to just use the proper spelling/syntax. Thus, it gives the impression that your trying to hard to be 'cool' a given sign that you of course are not.
3. Willingness to just sit back and accept it makes the normal people think it's acceptable behavior, when in fact, it's not.
4. The urge to deteriorate into a rage filled scream fest of "Grow up you moron" insults.
tl&dr version.
'Elite' speak is a fad that has been played out, much like the 'Rickroll' and as such should be ignored by the mass population.
Those of you who still use this in everyday communication can enjoy the fact that your still a minority. Only now, everyone understands 'Wut uR sayn'
So you go right ahead and keep on truckin, just don't expect any sympathy from those of us that actually went to school.
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The shortening of phrases into letters doesn't bug me...cause I do that. It's not from gaming but from texting and the like. I use it for emphasizing purposes.|
Originally Posted by Major James Ashe
What really boggles my mind is when someone uses text-esque abbreviations in speech. I was walking through a store a couple months back, and I actually heard someone say "btw." Now, it wasn't the fact that they used an abbreviation that intrigued me, so much as it was the fact that they used that particular abbreviation, which takes longer to say than the "long" form.
(Incidentally, I have the same reaction to the use of "GSW" instead of "gunshot wound" in medical dramas. Stop wasting time with those two extra syllables -- or one, if you're a "dubya"-er -- while the patient's trying to bleed out on us!) |
Its kind if like in the 90s when everyone put "yo'" after everything or shoved in a "like" between each word. I imagine the BTW, FML, and OMG in speech will stick around. But that is just my prediction.
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I wish I could say that I don't see it very often, but I would have to say that at least 25% of the applications I get use l33t.
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Originally Posted by Sorah
That makes me sad if someone ACTUALLY put in applications for things in 1337.
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Ugh. But can we really expect much more when the generations graduating high school right now think that a "C" grade average at a CRAPPY school is good enough? |
Originally Posted by DocArcus
I wish I could say that I don't see it very often, but I would have to say that at least 25% of the applications I get use l33t.
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Sad face.
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((Hey! Don't underestimate those dumb, slacker C-average students! One of them just left the White House at the beginning of this year!))
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Originally Posted by Sorah
Ugh. But can we really expect much more when the generations graduating high school right now think that a "C" grade average at a CRAPPY school is good enough?
Sad face. |
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LOL. My point exactly....sad face x 1902412038109238
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Originally Posted by Heroid
((Hey! Don't underestimate those dumb, slacker C-average students! One of them just left the White House at the beginning of this year!))
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Ok, someone got it. It still surprises me to see people jump on a thread and tear it a new one when it was intended as a joke.
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Originally Posted by Alkaiser
Who-ho-ho-hoa there, broseph. This is a joke thread. Couldn't you tell?
Honestly. People need to turn their "serious business" switches down or something. |
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Bah that's silly, I've met plenty of folks try to speak l33t. Then again it was mostly oocly and joking, RPing is more for tangible speeches and the sort.
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Plenty of people got it.|
Originally Posted by PhoenixOfSyrinx
Ok, someone got it. It still surprises me to see people jump on a thread and tear it a new one when it was intended as a joke.
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Heck, Sorah's response made me laugh.
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Originally Posted by Sentai_KB
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Not to mention stuff can get out of hand.
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That's an unfortunate acronym.
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Originally Posted by Sentai_KB
Tip to all Virtue players:
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I dislike it. Being concise in 160 characters or less doesn't mean you need to shave letters. It just means you need to be parsimonious and brilliant with your words.|
Originally Posted by Sorah
The shortening of phrases into letters doesn't bug me...cause I do that. It's not from gaming but from texting and the like.
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On the other hand, I do appreciate clever uses of 1337.
Because tightly wound players feel if they pick apart typos enough, they'll have some kind of tangible intelligence and not be just pretentious.
Maybe they are roleplaying a human/machine synthetic human from an alternate timeline where leet-like speak has become THE primary way of communication as it is about one step up from binary.
It really hurts your head to type like that all the time. :P
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So after playing on Virtue for a few days I have realized that all the roleplayers seem to have a complex for having perfect grammar. So my question is this, why are all the virtue players English Majors? lurn 2 not /B anol!
K Thx Bai