Young Writers Society

...What's leet speak?

I don't think Nate is saying he's banning all abbreviations, guys! This is the Internet, and as such, when we want to express ourselves, nobody's going to mind a "lol" or a "ROFL" or whatever. There's a difference between:

"lol i laffed so hard whn i saw dat"

and

"Lol! I laughed so hard when I saw that!"

I don't use chat speak really. Even in texts. You'll always hear me and my friends complaining about people who say "dis" and "dat." And when you have a full keyboard in front of you and you're not being charged by the letter well, what excuse do you have?

My grammar isn't the best, but I am pretty annoyed when people make no effort whatsoever. In the words of Professor Higgins: "Cold-blooded murder of the English language."

And (because I recently saw My Fair Lady, I'll continue):

"Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton."

If Eliza Doolittle can learn to speak properly, why can't people learn to type properly?

. I know I'm a freak. No need to remind me.

I like saying lol..., and sometimes I forget I'm on this site and write yr instead of your/you're. Just because it's me. As long as I get to write how I want on my blog I'm awwright What if you're scottish? Are you not allowed to say cannae or gonnae? Or... aye?

Ha ha. I'm so glad this rule is heavily implemented. I hate "text-speak" or what ever it's called. The only thing I tolerate and use myself is "lol", "lmao", and "ttyl".

I would short-circuit if my friends texted me like this: "i lyk saw dat 1 movie ystrdy and it was lyk rly kool nd u need 2 c it 2!!!!!11"

Ha ha. Thank God my friends are freaks like me and rarely even use "lol". We are definitely not normal teenagers. Nope. Not at all.

And seriously, any teenager who types out "ha ha", instead of "lol" is most definitely not normal. But, that would be me, and countless others on this site. (It's a good thing. Trust me.)

xD

/rant

I love this rule. It should be implemented everywhere outside of YWS. Unless you're one of my best friends that I've known for five or so years, you're not going to see me use chatspeak. It's a pet peeve of mine.

My friends outside of YWS don't share that pet peeve. They don't see why it matters. I was literally actually proud of one of them for using the shift key yesterday, that's how bad he normally is.

I'm in total agreement with Stella here; why butcher the English language?

If I was a bad newbie that never knew about the rules because I had no idea about the welcome forum...is that bad??

It won't effect anything now will it or does it effect any application? *not applying now just curious*

Kamas wrote:If I was a bad newbie that never knew about the rules because I had no idea about the welcome forum...is that bad??

It won't effect anything now will it or does it effect any application? *not applying now just curious*

Haha, not at all! I honestly wouldn't worry about it; nobody expects new members to know the rules. Plus, when you apply, we look at relatively recent activity.

Kamas wrote:If I was a bad newbie that never knew about the rules because I had no idea about the welcome forum...is that bad??

It won't effect anything now will it or does it effect any application? *not applying now just curious*

Plus, that would require the mods/admins to read ALL of your posts, and that's a lot of work for us lazy people.

No, seriously, if we read your newbie posts, we look for how much you've improved. Because we're suckers for inspirational stories. ("I used to write like ThIs and now I can write a full sentence!") So no worries about that.

No kidding. Snoink's sixth post:

Snoink wrote:AWW!!! THEY'RE SO CUTE!!!

My dog:

http://www.the-council.neoburn.net/snoink/dog.php

Yeah Nate... you suck.

And! Just so you know! The link doesn't work... but this link does!

http://snoink.com/me/dog.php

Snoink's 9,571 post:

Snoink wrote:Well. Um. Grif is reading it. IF HE "EDITS" IT, IT'S NOT MY FAULT. But I can probably beat him with a zucchini, which actually might be more entertaining, sadly enough.

YES, NATE. SUBMIT.

We clearly aren't very concerned about caps

EDIT

Cool dog indeed!