[quote]kelleyb wrote:
idk wot th fk ur taking bout. [/quote]
Dammit. Beat me to it.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
pushharder wrote:
FWIW, if you’re posting on these forums and don’t capitalize where appropriate, don’t punctuate, don’t use paragraphs and don’t attempt to spell correctly, I don’t read your posts. Skip right over 'em.
So just think, you could be telling the funniest joke ever, revealing the secret of how to understand women, laying out plans for how to build a nuclear weapon in your basement, proving that Mike Mentzer’s ghost has sex with Elvis’ ghost at Graceland, and offer free Workout Surge to all who ask and…I’d never know it.
ill never care
how about you stop trying to seem so fucking important with your grammar captain spellcheck. not everyone takes the same approach to posting on T-Nation as they would a research paper. [/quote]
I don’t think Push is trying to be the Grammar police so much as he’s trying to inform lots of posters that he doesn’t even read your posts if you don’t punctuate and capitalize correctly. He’s also far from being the only poster who does this; I skip posts regularly if they’re not fairly well written.
Now, do you care? You don’t have to. But just remember that there are many professionals on this board, and next time you (or anybody) asks for advice, be it for lifting, finances, women, or whatever, these pro’s will often skip right over your post if you write lazy English. When they could’ve saved you some time and trouble with two quick paragraphs, you’ll instead get nothing just because you were too lazy to write in correct English.
Invariably, we hear “it’s not a research paper, geez”. Well son, it’s not difficult or time-consuming to press the “SHIFT” key while you type and then give your post a quick once-over before you click “SUBMIT” either.
But again, nobody’s forcing you to do this, just like nobody is forcing me to attempt to read the text-vomit that’s supposed to pass as English nowadays.
Indeed. I can’t be fucked reading half-thought illegible posts either. Ever heard of paragraphing? Or even the SHIFT key?
Or are you still looking for the ANY key?
Fucking douchebags.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
I’ll never care.
How about you stop trying to seem so fucking important with your grammar Captain Spellcheck. Not everyone takes the same approach to posting on T-Nation as they would on a research paper.
I also like a long hard cock in my ass in the mornings.[/quote]
Fixed. To a readable standard anyway.
I am posting this here for others to save and use when necessary. Just my good deed for the day…
2nd good deed…
I can’t stand it when someone says “anyways”… with the S at the end.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
pushharder wrote:
FWIW, if you’re posting on these forums and don’t capitalize where appropriate, don’t punctuate, don’t use paragraphs and don’t attempt to spell correctly, I don’t read your posts. Skip right over 'em.
So just think, you could be telling the funniest joke ever, revealing the secret of how to understand women, laying out plans for how to build a nuclear weapon in your basement, proving that Mike Mentzer’s ghost has sex with Elvis’ ghost at Graceland, and offer free Workout Surge to all who ask and…I’d never know it.
ill never care
how about you stop trying to seem so fucking important with your grammar captain spellcheck. not everyone takes the same approach to posting on T-Nation as they would a research paper. [/quote]
From a kid who thinks a t-shirt is a mode of communication.
My problem has to do with a short attention span. If your post is longer than your avatar, I skip over it. Sometimes this is unconcious, and I just do it because I’m tired of reading long boring posts. I skip straight to the redicule, or I get the jist of it from reading other peoples comments.
This happens most in the SAMA and Beginners forums. Sadly, it also happens when I’m perusing the Steroid forums, which sucks, because I really want to learn, but I just can’t summon the ability to read the page and a half abstracts some members quote.
Anyways, back to the topic at hand…
[quote]pushharder wrote:
But Gun is correct. I’m not being a grammar Nazi but there is obviously a huge amount of data on this site and I just can’t read everything, even on the subjects that interest me. So I subconsciously and sometimes, consciously, skip over the gobblygookedup stuff.[/quote]
I’ve learned that the “cool” kids who write like this, for the most have nothing really worth reading in the first place. So when I see them in a thread - I don’t even bother reading them. Their avatar is my filter.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
I subconsciously and sometimes, consciously, skip over the gobblygookedup stuff.[/quote]
So does the search feature and that’s my problem with manufactured English.
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
kelleyb wrote:
idk wot th fk ur taking bout.
Dammit. Beat me to it.[/quote]
I learned from the master.
http://www.T-Nation.com/tmagnum/readTopic.do?id=2140114&pageNo=0
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
ill never care
how about you stop trying to seem so fucking important with your grammar captain spellcheck. not everyone takes the same approach to posting on T-Nation as they would a research paper. [/quote]
I can’t help but think every time someone makes a reply like this to any forum post about grammar, that for said poster it takes an actual amount of effort to type/write properly, whereas it DOES take effort to read the shit that you type a lot of the time.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
FWIW, if you’re posting on these forums and don’t capitalize where appropriate, don’t punctuate, don’t use paragraphs and don’t attempt to spell correctly, I don’t read your posts. Skip right over 'em.
[/quote]
u serial?
Your screen name doesn’t feature correct punctuation.
I skip right over text-speak, and freaky avatars. ^
I agree completely, Push. There should be an eject button of some sort on the forums so that people like that can get booted off as soon as they post some incohesive, un-punctuated, un-capitalized piece of illegible drivel.