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Originally Posted by waiting4
I totally agree! Large blocks of text just makes my head hurt, although I will make an attempt to read it. If I get about half way down, however, and I find myself reading the same line twice, that's it. I give up.
Pet peeve #394.... smiley faces (or frowns or any goofy icon) sprinkled liberally in a professional email. And while we're on the subject, unnecessary usage of CAPS, colors, especially yeallo,. which is not only impossible to see, but an instant migraine producer for me; creative fonts that are just ducky in a personal email but have no particular necessityin a business forum. Oh, and teeeny tiny type makes me want to go all windmill on a person!!!
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Lol. xD Yeah, I agree with all of that. This whole smiley-face-thing seems to be getting more common, over the years. I gather it's to show friendliness, because, ... y'know, they smile in shops and all that jazz, but something about it just seems 'off', to me, when it's online. I recently went on a chat support helpline (EA support, actually, for something on Origin!) and I got someone who kept giving me smiley faces, ... honestly? I was a little uncomfortable with it. Maybe we're just stuck in our formalities and pedantism. xD
The yellow text drives me nuts. Some people used to do that on PC, back when we had RealChat - I was always thankful for the option to disable all those horrid colors and make everyone's text black.
*manic laugh*
I like some tiny fonts, where appropriate, but sometimes, I agree, it can be a little strenuous to read heaps of teeny-tiny text. xD
I'm OK with people using caps to emphasise a word or brief sentence, but when people type out entire messages in capital letters, it's just annoying; I think sometimes, they are people that aren't used to the world of Online, and don't realise they are SHOUTING IN YOUR BRAIN. My dad actually did the whole caps-typing thing, until my sister and I explained about the shouting thing.
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Originally Posted by possum220
My mother was a grammar Nazi. She grew up in England and emigrated to Australia. She had married my father who grew up in Australia. Every word had to be spoken in the queen's english. Pronunciation had to be correct. If it wasn't the way she was used to, she corrected us. For example the soil in the garden was soil not dirt. She loathed Australian slang, again more corrections.
Does grammar matter to me yes. Am I uptight about it? No.
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She sounds as bad as my mother; she was/is a lot like that, even though her English wasn't really all that fantastic. My mother was married to my dad, of whom is Scottish; she'd "correct" his Scottish accent and the idioms - the audacity of that woman! To be fair, I have fairly good spoken-English, so I guess I have her to thank for that. I must've sounded horrendously posh, when I was a kid. I know I've had comments before, "You sound so posh!" is one such comment. ¬_¬
I relax a lot more, nowadays, letting a hint of Scottish get through, and getting casual with
some slang, but I still can't help but to use a decent word or two, and I do my level best to avoid things like double-negatives. Unfortunately, for some unknown reason, my written English is far better than my spoken English. I think I've just gathered bad habits, over the years, those of which haven't plagued my typing, for some reason.
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Originally Posted by sidestepper
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Lol. xD Awesome link; thanks for that! The bit about Jesus, was a brilliant ouchy moment! You also bring forward a good point: sometimes we just have to laugh at language, its idiosyncrasies, and all those idioms!
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Originally Posted by sidestepper
I've not posted here because this subject is extremely sensitive for me. You see all my life I have been found wanting in this area. To me English is schizophrenic. How it is pronounced doesn't follow the spelling, spelling has so many exceptions I can not remember them all. Grammar, that too is full of bizarre rules. Being profoundly hearing impaired since age 3 and taught in a regular school with no accommodations except one on one speech and a number of teachers who believed I should be institutionalized has done a number on my self esteem...
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Damn, that was deep! Thanks for sharing all that; it was a good read. You clearly have a unique insight into all this stuff. You'd probably make a great teacher, because of your perspective. Those teachers were seriously wrong in treating you like they did. :| Times have presumably changed, now; that's at least something.
Lip-reading must be incredibly hard, especially when some numpty like me, forgets that you need to read lips, and so then you can't understand anything. >.< I say "like me", because I've done that before - eye-contact isn't my forté.
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