How important is your written Language?

[Mercedes01]

See this is interesting to me. Why? Because of how people perceive the internet.

For me I see that there are real people behind the screen. Excluding trolls etc. Which is why I personally struggle with certain characters.

Which in turn changes my attitude towards that person. With very much the mindset, if you're been an ass I have no problem saying it and why you are. I expect the same.

Mate when Kane was brain damaged I needed laughter in my life.

I found the forums to forget about things that took their toll on me
in the real world.

I don't like to use the forums for personal debates I had enough of that
for years.

I don't need to get into debates and any way the majority of yanks don't understand
my culture of taking the piss out of each other and laughing.

Every thing is so bloody serious to them.

 

[WhoFlungpoo]

Mate when Kane was brain damaged I needed laughter in my life.

I found the forums to forget about things that took their toll on me
in the real world.

I don't like to use the forums for personal debates I had enough of that
for years.

I don't need to get into debates and any way the majority of yanks don't understand
my culture of taking the piss out of each other and laughing.

Every thing is so bloody serious to them.

And you so know I understand this, I too use the forums to escape. I think we all do to a degree.

Remember we used to block each other . But one day we became adults. No block feature was in force. That day we started to learn about each other. It changed everything.

I got to know you. Oops I'm being serious. But you highlighted another point. Humour can be very different. What can be hilarious to some, can cause offence to others.

 

[Mercedes01]

And you so know I understand this, I too use the forums to escape. I think we all do to a degree.

Remember we used to block each other . But one day we became adults. No block feature was in force. That day we started to learn about each other. It changed everything.

I got to know you. Oops I'm being serious. But you highlighted another point. Humour can be very different. What can be hilarious to some, can cause offence to others.

Shit I need another tissue

Yeah we wasted so much time being enemies it's strange because I always thought you would
get my humor as you being in the UK and our countries humor is similar.

I would scratch my head thinking why on earth is this person thinking
I'm being nasty I would think it was funny

 

[WhoFlungpoo]

Shit I need another tissue

Yeah we wasted so much time being enemies it's strange because I always thought you would
get my humor as you being in the UK and our countries humor is similar.

I would scratch my head thinking why on earth is this person thinking
I'm being nasty I would think it was funny

I'm quite stuck up as English people go and you can be shocking, even to me now. I see you as who you are now though rather than what you say on the forums. Unless it's a touching moment

I'm getting annoyed with the weather here today. It looked nice. I pegged my washing out. Nipped to the shop. It started to rain. Dashed home, grabbed my washing. The damn sun came out

Factors, another thing. Who knows why a person is responding in they are. Maybe an emotional factor.

 

[Mercedes01]

I'm quite stuck up as English people go and you can be shocking, even to me now. I see you as who you are now though rather than what you say on the forums. Unless it's a touching moment

I'm getting annoyed with the weather here today. It looked nice. I pegged my washing out. Nipped to the shop. It started to rain. Dashed home, grabbed my washing. The damn sun came out

Factors, another thing. Who knows why a person is responding in they are. Maybe an emotional factor.

Are we allowed to go off topic because you started it

Yeah you have a beautiful English rose voice but yes you sound like a toff whilst
I probably sounded like a riff raff to you

I refer to myself as a cheeky bitch like if I know some one doesn't like me and I know what kind of
post's pisses them off on the forums you will see me agreeing with some one who I don't really
agree with just to piss the enemy off.

I found it funny more so because so many would believe my silly ridiculous post's

It's horrible weather here some states are now classified as a disaster zone
as we had cyclonic winds all bloody week.

 

[WhoFlungpoo]

Are we allowed to go off topic because you started it

Yeah you have a beautiful English rose voice but yes you sound like a toff whilst
I probably sounded like a riff raff to you

I refer to myself as a cheeky bitch like if I know some one doesn't like me and I know what kind of
post's pisses them off on the forums you will see me agreeing with some one who I don't really
agree with just to piss the enemy off.

I found it funny more so because so many would believe my silly ridiculous post's

It's horrible weather here some states are now classified as a disaster zone
as we had cyclonic winds all bloody week.

Don't ask me if we can go off topic. I don't actually know But you kinda are on topic. Because, online you miss the voice tone. Like you, you laugh a lot when you are talking. But strong in your words online. So, people like me don't actually know you're not being serious. It doesn't show in the written word btw you don't sound like riff raff. You are quite upbeat woman. Whereas on the forum I used to read you as agressive by word.

Antagonist

I feel bad now for complaining about an April shower Keep safe

 

[Mercedes01]

Don't ask me if we can go off topic. I don't actually know But you kinda are on topic. Because, online you miss the voice tone. Like you, you laugh a lot when you are talking. But strong in your words online. So, people like me don't actually know you're not being serious. It doesn't show in the written word btw you don't sound like riff raff. You are quite upbeat woman. Whereas on the forum I used to read you as agressive by word.

Antagonist

I feel bad now for complaining about an April shower Keep safe

Your spot on and now at that other site I'm viewed as aggressive all over again :s

 

[mrldii]

Just throwing this out there..

If you click in to someone's profile, then click "Ignore," all their posts will no longer be visible to you...

Even easier than going through all of those two steps is to simply employ your own internal "ignore" button.

 

[Smiley]

I'd like to pick up where everyone else here left off and weigh in.

I believe that the way we express ourselves on the Internet is important and can be misleading, since some people might intentionally act differently than they do in the offline world with an intention of achieving something, like drawing attention to themselves to feel popular, for example. Nothing wrong with that, really, as long as the person doing it isn't stepping on anyone else's toes in the process. You wanna make everyone think you're something you're not? Okay, whatever floats your boat is fine by me. Just keep your hands firmly on the helm and make sure your boat doesn't collide with mine.

I also firmly believe that a lot of misunderstandings that come from the lack of physical 'face to face' interaction can be avoided by simply using appropriate smilies to indicate your intentions and your emotional state. That's their purpose anyway. If a person never uses smilies and constantly talks in a certain manner that, given the lack of face to face interaction, can easily be misinterpreted as, let's say condescending, or downright hostile, it would be unfair and unreasonable from that person to expect anyone to think they're not like what they seem to be. Like mrldii said: If it quacks like a duck, if it waddles like a duck - it's a duck. You don't wanna be perceived as something you're not? Great. Don't act like it. Act the way you want to be perceived. Simple, really.

As for spelling & grammar, it's something I make sure to do correctly. It's much easier to read & understand properly spelled posts than to fight your way through spelling and / or grammar mistakes. However, I also believe that being too uptight about the language and constantly insisting on doing everything 'by the book' can be detrimental, since most people don't have broomsticks shoved up their asses and are at least somewhat flexible in the way they talk, so, for example, when I see someone constantly using, so called, "big words" that even the most native English speakers don't understand without looking at the dictionary, I tend to cross that person off and simply not talk to him / her.

I also don't like it when someone uses non-default font, non-default font size and / or generally applies too many seemingly unnecessary formatting to their posts. In my eyes, it makes them look like an attention whores, but I certainly admit that could easily just be my personal bias.