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Lit snobs, unite!
Chatterbox: Down to Earth
Lit snobs, unite!
Lit snobs, unite!
Because after all, everyone else is uniting, and we need a place to ramble about spelling and grammar and such without driving the people on the other threads positively *insane*, as it would appear that we're doing (see BaB). So here is a thread.
submitted by Mary W., age 11.39, NJ
(June 5, 2009 - 3:35 pm)
(June 5, 2009 - 3:35 pm)
I'm in! OK, the occasional misspelled word is all right. However, constant mangling of everything you say is completely unacceptable. Continue ranting, everyone.
(June 6, 2009 - 8:08 am)
Yes, occasional typos and fine and understood and all that. So is text talk in context. Bad grammar and spelling consistently is... not.
(June 6, 2009 - 6:29 pm)
Yes! I hereby join your revolt/movement thngymabob!
-EH the grammar geek
(June 7, 2009 - 4:03 pm)
YAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! *rushes into battle armed with dictionary*
Thank you, Mary W., for creating this thread. We shall plot the downfall of chatspeak here! Mwhahahahahahahaha! Soon, the world will know how to spell maybe, totally, and get strong fingers!!
YAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *fights chatspeaker with dictionary*
(June 7, 2009 - 4:39 pm)
I think there are times and places for the whole "r u there hi i m. lol g2g" thing, and the Chatterbox is not one of them. Lack of punctuation and/or capitallization really annoys me.
(June 7, 2009 - 4:45 pm)
Yes, there is a time and place for chatspeak. And you're right, I don't think the Chatterbox is one of them. I don't think it should be eliminated wholely - lol and gtg and brb are kind of handy sometimes, (and did you notice, those are all consonant, vowel, repeat first consonant? :D) and I use them myself in appropriate places, but I would prefer to keep that out of the Chatterbox.
-EH
(June 7, 2009 - 8:35 pm)
I agree, Emily. Still, I don't think we need to jump all over the occasional person who uses 'lol' in the Chatterbox.
(June 8, 2009 - 12:14 pm)
Were you talking to me, or Emily H.?
(June 8, 2009 - 3:30 pm)
Oh, sorry. You made a good point, too, but I was talking to Emily H. Sorry again!
(June 8, 2009 - 5:10 pm)
Actually, most "text talk" is probably okay, as Lena said. But only if used in context, and you shouldn't be all, "OME, EC is TMTH! IKAV! LOL..."* etc., because that's simply not proper English and half the people won't have a clue what you're saying.
But grammar and spelllng, constantly mangled... *picks up dictionary and follows Pirocks*
*Translation: "Oh my Edward! Edward Cullen is too much to handle! I kissed a vampire! Laugh out loud..." And please keep in mind, I'm not attacking fangirls or their grammar, I simply used this example because Twi-acronyms seem to be the most common.
(June 8, 2009 - 3:36 pm)
Yeah... I've never seen anyone THAT extreme, but that would annoy me too.
(June 8, 2009 - 5:12 pm)
I know. I just used btw in a post on the short stories thread on the Inkwell. I'm not jumping, believe me. :)
-EH
(June 8, 2009 - 6:54 pm)
Finally! A place where I can rebel against 4th graders that write like 1st graders! Not that I'm mean or anything, I just want to use big words without queer looks.
This is something for other lit snobs to do:
Unlitsnob: Jimmy totally is a total freak! I mean, like, a weido, ya know?
Litsnob: James is positively a queer person! I am meaning, by saying this, he is a different type of being, from the rest of us.
And for the girl with the Dictionary....*grabs Thesaurus and and runs out screeching like a mad woman in old English*
I like this!
Maria
(June 8, 2009 - 6:15 pm)
You're right about the strange looks, Maria/Grammargirl... Today was yearbook signing day... I wrote the usual stuff about have a good summer, you're a great friend, etc., etc., but I also wrote, "Don't be afraid to heterodogmatize." I got a bunch of weird looks from my peers.
*Heterodogmatize: to hold opinions that differ from the ones generally held. Example: I heterodogmatize regarding Twilight.
(June 9, 2009 - 4:29 pm)
Hm... I never correct people over the internet (only people I actually know), but I would often consider myself a literature snob. People stare at me a lot, too, because I talk about tardigrades and hippopatamonstrasesquipedaliaphobics (not me!).
(June 26, 2009 - 4:29 pm)