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Lucius -> RE: __________________: annoying? (2/13/2007 4:24:51 PM)
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Well, I think there's one thing we have near (but surely not total) agreemeent on - that silly "slash" thing with the "W/we send Y/you O/our regards and hope W/we A/all can..." is annoying and hard to read.
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ORIGINAL: MadRabbit
Its a nice gesture when people capitalize words in reference to me just like its nice when people refer to me as Sir, but to be honest, I dont pay much attention to it. I once had a 40 year old woman in a munch group constantly refer to me as Sir and capitalize letters in reference to me when she talked to me online. Then when I finnally met her, not only did she not refer to me as Sir once, but treated me like one of her children and her personality didnt resemble her online persona at all! Then when we talked online again, the Sir's were back and the humble persona.
More often than not, at least in my experiences and opinion, its just a bunch of "Lets pretend to be something we really arent" crap.
You know, Sir - I think I owe You an apology. I WAS all set to jump on this with "Oh, one person You met was different in person than online and so not only she but anyone else who acts that way online must be playing 'Let's pretend to be something we really aren't'" - and then I realized that would be unfair to You. You DID say both "in my experiences and opinion" and more tellingly "More often than not."
It's MY personal opinion (and only an opinion - one I could be talked out of even!) that You should have called her on it. Either in person, or later when she slipped into the same persona again online. Ask if she realizes she's doing it, why she's doing it, etc.
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ORIGINAL: MaryT
I have a thing about thinking that language is important in communication.
Yes. Exactly. It’s intended to communicate something.
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ORIGINAL: sub4hire
So, they try to make others feel less of themselves.
Maybe I’m confused, but in what way does one person’s use of capitalization, punctuation, or any other aspect of written communication, “make others feel less of themselves?”
I cAn PLaY wITh CAPItallIzatIon aND MIssssspeLLiIng AlL DaY and I Don’T SeE hOw It pUts yOU DOwN.
In fact, that sentence didn't make Me feel especially good about Myself either. Sheesh. W/worse t\Than A/al/l T/The/e slashes.
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ORIGINAL: Missokyst
how do you capitalize speech?
You know, that’s funny. I’ve always assumed that the whole point of the capitalization customs – at least, the Uppercasing of references to the Dominant – was an attempt to express in print what can be heard in the voice. Or am I the only one who’s ever noticed a difference in the second person pronoun’s pronunciation when it is a slave addressing their Master, as opposed to the same slave addressing someone else?
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ORIGINAL: lilsubl
…but i’ve also found that the people who are guilty of those things have much to say to me if i choose to listen…
A good thought, and a good lesson for us all – including and perhaps especially ME – to learn to look beyond trivial things that annoy us to see what another person has to teach or contribute.
Thanks to you, lilsubl, I’m not making fun of someone I was tempted to. ;)
Oh, and no, it's not MadRabbit (Who I already apologized to for reading a post too quickly and thinking ill too readily.) It was someone else.
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ORIGINAL: stupideity
is called Anal-retentiveness
Is insisting upon “proper grammar” as opposed to a system of capitalization that some find useful, pleasing, and expressive somehow less “anal-retentive” than is insisting upon detailed compliance to that system in defiance of more commonly accepted rules of language?
I’m sure there are plenty of reasons for adopting one practice or the other, but I don’t see the sense in labeling either as exclusively “anal retentive.” I think either practice could be, and neither has to be.
Say, does anal-retentive really have a hyphen?
Lucius Alexander
Master of the palindromedary (among other things)
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