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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:15 am
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I've been thinking about this for some time. I'm not sure if I should leave or not. The reason I think I should leave is, well, I use slang. Always have, always will (even Internet slang). There's a certain extent to which I do use it, and that's when I'm trying to be humorous and light-hearted. I even speak a bit of it in my speech. School is where I throw that away while I'm writing, because it's not the place for it. That's not to say that when people mix up "r" for "are", a little robot in my head explodes (if I wanted to, I could've spelled that "es'plodes"...but that might've not been very nice. ^^; ). I have friends who will drive people insane here with their lack of spelling and grammar. Most of them are very good friends I've met since I've been on Gaia. I don't know them in the contexts of the real world, but they're friendly enough on Gaia, and I enjoy their company. When it comes to role-playing, I'm very serious in literacy. I try to make every post a small paragraph or a couple of words like a story. If I'm going to do that, then I'd appreciate if the others who I'm role-playing with could show that same effort. I don't punish for writer's block, because for those who do role-play, we get it. When it comes to the Gaia Towns, I get approached because of my avatar. I like it, and some other people "like" it, too. When a "no0b" starts begging for gold or to borrow my items with no sense of grammar, then I get pissed. But if someone just comes up to me with just a simple "hi how r u", I get annoyed. My "red-pen-dar" goes off, but I just return the greeting in my own way. They haven't done anything bad to me at that point in time, so why be rude to them? I had an interesting talk on a fellow with IMVU. His name is DeseD, but I just sometimes call him Big D. At first, I didn't like him because of the way he spoke, y'know, the "hi how r u"-thing. I got irritated, told him to speak "properly" and, well, he surprised me. We later went on to discuss the reason why by forcing others to "talk properly", you shut a lot of people out of prospective friends (that's not to say we don't have predophiles who use either "language".). Before, if anyone talked to me like that over the Internet, I'd assume they were a kid (but there are a lot of kids who use that speech over the Internet), and I'd want nothing to do with them. But some of us here might be kids who use English pretty well, and would seem older. I gave it some thought, and, well, I gave people a chance. I did meet a lot of butt-heads, but I've met some nice people, too. Don't really care about age anymore, because anyone can make that up. I mod some words, make up my own, or even slip into different tongues. I think that might get me in trouble here, too. Then again, I've seen a couple of people who've been let in here, and they mess up every rule imaginable. What do you guys think?
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 1:30 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:08 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:42 pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:34 am
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:57 pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:41 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:28 am
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:54 am
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:19 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:48 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:19 am
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I am from NJ so when I actually talk, I tend to cut off and mesh words without even noticing since I have an NJ accent due to being born here and living here my whole life! Such as, a lot of times, I say 'gonna', but I rarely type it out or write it. I do sometimes without noticing though. Although, quite a few times I write the way I speak. However, I don't spell the words as I say them, of course. Otherwise I would probably spell 'water' as 'wader', and 'coffee' as 'cawfee', which is quite incorrect indeed! Also, I occasionally say 'ja' instead of 'yes', or just say random things when I'm talking to my friends. *Shrugs*
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 5:44 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:52 am
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