Randoming.

[azurelunatic]

Jumping around on random. Not finding much. Did find one readable person, but wasn't especially interested.

Is it too much to ask that people write their journals in some recognizable form of a language? Journals obviously in another language don't bother me; it would be a delight to read another language, but that's not somewhere I'm going to be any time soon. It's great that there are people all over on the 'Net, and it's not just a spoiled-ass rich US thing, but...

For whatever reason, though, journals in some bastardization of under-educated high-school slacker/AOL junkie quasi-English bother me. Not the journals that are riddled with misspellings because the writer doesn't know how to spell, but the journals that spell every word phonetically, and add in numerals and little cutesy anime faces because it's "kewwliez" to do so. There's only so much cute and hip I can handle at once; anything that is overwhelmingly "Kwaiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!1!!!!!!!!!" is not for me.

The occasional salting an otherwise normal-English or technical-English journal with a popular [the spelling version of neologism] doesn't bother me; it's used for effect. I have no problem with people who speak in the thickest local dialect there is, and construct their phrases according to the rules of same. I just have trouble with alternative spelling rules.

I don't know why it bothers me so very much, but it does.

I don't, of course, leave comments to the effect of "j00 sux0rs!" in the journals I come across. I just alt + <- out of there and move on. It's not my place to correct your spelling if I've come out of nowhere into your journal. Nor is it my place to correct your spelling if that's the way you spell, and you're not asking for spelling help, or teaching my nephew how to spell. However, it's not my place to be reading your journal if you choose not to spell in your best approximation of the language that I read. If you spell cutely, rather than sensibly, don't expect me to add you back.

Comments

[tiel.livejournal.com]

I've found the same thing, of late, while reading random journals. I seem to recall a time when the majority of the journals I stumbled across were "readable," if somewhat boring. I would sooner frequent a Went to school, did homework, went to bed, repeat ad infinum journal then one peppered with phrases like "I heart something or another," or "l33t sp33k." It isn't cool, its annoying, and its difficult to read.

I understand, and respect the fact that the journal belongs to, and is written for its individual owner...but I can't imagine anything natural about writing the way some of these people do. They can't possibly think like that, and I was under the impression that the concept of journaling was a though to paper sort of thing.

[azurelunatic]

Some people do think that way. It's scary.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I hate the random thing, I always find complete idiots... much prefer the friendsfriends thing. My friends have intelligent friends, yay! In fact, if you want to find nice peoples, just wander through my friendslist, full of interesting types, like yourself for example :)

[azurelunatic]

I do tend to.

I wonder if one of the new features will be a filtered friendsfriends list, for friends of only these friends within filter... now that would be nifty.

Please don't kill me

[boojum.livejournal.com]

so...like....u think i shouldnt be expressing my selfness? ur like so, repressive...i bet u dont even no me...

(Please don't kill me. It was only a joke. I only wanted to point out the "Ellipses are the one true form of punctuation!" crowd.)

((Some of the Ellipses crowd are homeschooling. Great evil stalks the land.))

Re: Please don't kill me

[digitalambience.livejournal.com]

HEY! If ya keep on dis'n homeschooling....you will wish someone would kill ya! I was home-schooled. My Mother did a great job teaching me what she knows...and what she lacked my Dad taught me. Only after I learned all that they could teach me that I went to an outside education facility. There are some home-schoolers out there that give me and the rest of us good guys a bad name. Most of us are not evil! I hope that you have been misinformed or made a bad judgment.

[azurelunatic]

Careful there, my good man.

The teaching is only as good as the teacher. I was also home-schooled, briefly. I learned very little that year.

boojum is my oldest and dearest online friend.

Re: Please don't kill me

[azurelunatic]

Hear, hear.

Spinning list, by chance? Good gods.

Re: Please don't kill me

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

Homeschooling either r0x0rs or zux0rs.

Or something. It does depend on the teacher. I know too many of the freaky-religious-type homeschooler-people.

(zux is a cool word. Whatever. I need more sleep, except that I got 8 hours last night.)

wood it bah their yew if eye right my caw meant like sew?

(it's *almost* phonetic... curses!)

Re: Please don't kill me

[azurelunatic]

"I have a spelling chequer; it came with my pea sea..."

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

When randoming, the chances are most high you'll get the type of person that people talk about when they mock the whole concept of LJ.

[azurelunatic]

Yeah.

Is my journal mockable?