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azurelunatic) wrote2002-10-14 03:47 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2002-10-14 03:47 pm
Randoming.
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.
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.
no subject
The teaching is only as good as the teacher. I was also home-schooled, briefly. I learned very little that year.