Comments on: Eats Shoots & Leaves

By: Zubon

Zubon — Sun, 14 May 2006 13:45:29 +0000

Today’s winner:

[Tell]Fire Flaster: can i join ur sg if u have one?

At least he used the question mark.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Sun, 07 May 2006 03:45:38 +0000

Representative quote from the first thread I saw on an Age of Empires III message board:

Subject: rockets
does any1 use rockets anymore.

y r they gd

y r they not so gd

plz post ur thoughts

By: Hyd

Hyd — Thu, 04 May 2006 19:13:43 +0000

>Someone made an AddOn for WoW that replaces and/or filters words, like ignoring any line that contains “Chuck Norris”.

I’ve got to get that if I ever want to roll a Horde character again. Every time I try to start a Tauren anything, I can’t make it past The Barrens.

By: GregT

GregT — Thu, 04 May 2006 04:51:00 +0000

When I talk about MMORPGs or tabletop RPGs in real life I never expect people to understand what I’m saying. If I encounter an average person in real life I fully appreciate that they will be confused if I refer to what’s good today in graphic novels or genre TV.

Similarly, when I go online, it’s the norm for other people to have sufficiently worse communication skills than I do. Why should Azeroth be any different from home?

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:10:46 +0000

I think Tara’s right - it’s not IM that’s necesarily to blame, it’s phone texting. And not even because of speed either. The limitations on message length meant that people started abbreviating so that they could write more.

Unfortunately, while phones started permitting longer messages, users didn’t start using longer words again.

When the revolution comes, txters and l337 spkrs will be put up against the wall and fragged.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:23:47 +0000

People’s typing skills totally affect the way I imagine the voice of their character. The moment I see numbers substituted in for letters, unless I have prior context of that person to the contrary, the voice in my head for them becomes a whiney high-pitched 8 year old, usually with a slur due to the amount of uncontrollable drool streaming from the corner of their mouth. Like the kid who used to eat paste and sand back in elementary school, all while giggling and making chocolate in his shorts. But I digress…

Someone made an AddOn for WoW that replaces and/or filters words, like ignoring any line that contains “Chuck Norris”. I wish someone would make a comprehensive “translator” AddOn that would fix bad spelling. At least then I could be forgiving people their “there, their, they’re” mistakes, all the while not seeing any of their “u, r, ur, thx, plz, ne1″ garbage.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:02:38 +0000

Man, remember back when only smart people used the Internet?

The fact that I started out as a kid posting among power nerds on Compuserve in the pre-Web days probably had a lot to do with why I never had a tardspeak phase, and am not utterly intolerant of the semi-literate. I figure that if you can’t be bothered to do something right, you should spare the rest of the world and just not do it at all.

Hell, I use full words, punctuation, and capitalization even in cell phone text messages. And good luck trying to team with me MMORPG if your tell is something like “want team 4 sewer mish?”

…Not like you ever see any tells that -don’t- look like that, of course. Is it any wonder I always play solo?

By: Oz

Oz — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:49:56 +0000

We have an instant messaging thing we use at work for most quick communication and I constantly get “r u buzy?” messages and the like. Or “thx”. I’ve actually gotten a departmental-wide email from the boss with “u” instead of “you” and signed “thx”. *boggle*

Never understood why such a short word needs to be shortened further. I know my kids get screamed at (by me) if I catch them typing like that.