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why do ppl catch feelings over slang?

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OriginalThinking said:
Over what? I'm not angry :-P

And the Apples are splendid, thank you.
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Slang is fun, tone can matter, and getting upset at NeoGAF posts with "tryna" or "finna" or whatever in them probably means you are a wet blanket.
 
I just don't like it. It's grating and I prefer when people write normally. It's alright in real life but it's irritating online.
Edit: nvm I thought about it and I really don't care
Tertullian said:
I don't mind slang terms. I don't mind the occasional spelling error either.

I do mind, a little, when people don't even put any effort into using capitalization and punctuation, and generally making their posts readable. It shows a lack of courtesy for the reader. Posting on a message board (or anywhere, really) is an implicit claim that other people should pay attention to you, should read and consider what you have to say. Posting on a message board incoherently says "what I have to say is important and you should read it, but you're not important, so I'm not going to put any effort into making my thoughts readable for you." It says "I deserve your attention without having to put any effort at all into earning it."

My particular pet peeve is when the only punctuation marks in a post are elipses. You get a paragraph of disjointed clauses glued together with elipses. Like this:

"i dunno... i dont think it was really his fault... then again he could have been nicer about it... i think you should give him a break.."

It implies stream-of-consciousness. It's like you're saying "my thoughts are so special and wonderful that you should read them completely unedited and unfiltered."
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Lol ok
 
it just feels intimidating, knowing different groups and cultures that exist on the internet has words that i don't understand, it just sends me into an offensive frenzy
 
same dudes who hatin on 'tryna' and 'finna' and 'doe' be the same type of dudes who be in threads typin overplayed memes and #dead when they find somethin funny
 
So now the grammar police come out? Today I learned people think slang only applies to a certain culture, but won't come out and say it.
 
Stormhammer said:
same dudes who hatin on 'tryna' and 'finna' and 'doe' be the same type of dudes who be in threads typin overplayed memes and #dead when they find somethin funny
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i'm personally okay with #dead, and banderas, and iunderstoodthatreference gifs, those memes have a slightly less...., how do you say, urban feel to them
 
I avoid using too much Camden London slang because you wouldn't understand shit, and honestly, me neither
 
Cum 1 v 1 me IRL 2nite, fam. Ima mess u up reel bad.

THIS^ is the shit I hate.
Terrible example sorry, but I'm not good at the slang of writing.
 
I understand wanting a stronger general adherence to standard writing conventions so that intention and subtext is more likely to be efficiently shared. But getting upset at colloquialisms like "tryna" is the epitome of petty.

But at the same time, I rarely see anyone running up on these word soup posters, who use SAT words for no reason other than they want to.
 
Ima break it down n get real up'n dis biatch for a quick minute, ya dig ? Look homie ima just slangin my jive you lot sum trick biatchs talkn like sum regalar joe shmoes lookn like sum lame ass trick babies, not one yall a bottom ho up n dis biatch, ya heard ? yolo, such feelins, much slang. #dead.

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I think a serious conversation benefits from well written text

But on the other hand who cares as long as you can understand what the person is saying

And sometimes it's fun to write goofy and shorthand, namean?
 
FkLA said:
I dumped my first girlfriend because of her constant use of slang. Don't get me wrong I'm not a grammar Nazi or anything like that, but her constant use of slang made me feel as if I was dating someone that was raised in the projects.
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Was there anything else that didn't make her a good and stable significant other?

Not to judge, but that seems like a trivial reason to dump someone. Are you sure you didn't just want to be indepedent
 
The problem is it gets co-opted by people who are trying incredibly hard to be cool by following what other people do, and then you start hearing it everywhere and it loses any coolness it had in the first place. It's like cats and bacon, the internet doesn't know when to let something be and it becomes hugely overplayed and turns into something lame.
 
Because

A) Slang is annoying to read. It sounds fine, but it looks like shit.

B) Some of it is dumb. Thirsty is such a dumb way to say someone who is desperate. Go back to saying people have the vapors.

C) People here wear shit out faster then the radio wears out pop music.
 
It doesn't bother me, yes I think 'how old is this guy?' right away though. Not that I didn't do it from 13-16 y/o myself. I throw no stones
 
Everyone has as much freedom to write how they want as I have freedom to ignore anyone for writing in an unintelligent manner.

As of this post, this board has more than 137000 members and 70 million posts. I don't have time to even glance at all of them on my screen. I have even less time to undertake the task of reading the ones which I bother to look at. If you write like an idiot, I'm not going to get angry or hostile if I even bother to respond; I'm just going to press Page Down and stop caring about whatever you're trying to talk about.

(ps: That treatment applies to any responses to this post which are laden with "ironic" misuse of English. Yeah, I sure am salty. You win.)

Stormhammer said:
same dudes who hatin on 'tryna' and 'finna' and 'doe' be the same type of dudes who be in threads typin overplayed memes and #dead when they find somethin funny
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False.
 
Zen_Arcade said:
Because

A) Slang is annoying to read. It sounds fine, but it looks like shit.

B) Some of it is dumb. Thirsty is such a dumb way to say someone has is desperate. Go back to saying people have the vapors.

C) People here wear shit out faster then the radio wears out pop music.
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That's the thing, it shows a lack of sophistication in your ability to express yourself. Like people that use swear words all the time because they're unable to express themselves any other way. That's the impression that excessive typing in slang gives off.
 
agrajag said:
That's the thing, it shows a lack of sophistication in your ability to express yourself. Like people that use swear words all the time because they're unable to express themselves any other way. That's the impression that excessive typing in slang gives off.
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I don't even care about the lack of sophistication. We are on a video games message board on the internet, not the yacht club. But if someone is trying to make a serious point and short hand spells everything, I'm probably going to pass over that post because I don't feel like deciphering what every thing means. That doesn't mean I think the person couldn't express themselves in a more proper manner.

I also don't agree about your position on swear words. People that overuse any words repeatedly give off the vibe that they have a limited vocabulary. I don't think using swear words means you can't express yourself in a less blunt manner, just that you choose not to. I know plenty of very intelligent people who curse like sailors.
 
agrajag said:
That's the thing, it shows a lack of sophistication in your ability to express yourself. Like people that use swear words all the time because they're unable to express themselves any other way. That's the impression that excessive typing in slang gives off.
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It shows they lack the ability to express themselves in the way you'd like. Someone expressing themselves through slang, poetic words, curse words, or robotic perfect grammar is still expressing themselves in the end. Just because someone is good with words doesnt mean what they have to say is smarter or more intelligent and vice versa.
 
dog$ said:
Everyone has as much freedom to write how they want as I have freedom to ignore anyone for writing in an unintelligent manner.

As of this post, this board has more than 137000 members and 70 million posts. I don't have time to even glance at all of them on my screen. I have even less time to undertake the task of reading the ones which I bother to look at. If you write like an idiot, I'm not going to get angry or hostile if I even bother to respond; I'm just going to press Page Down and stop caring about whatever you're trying to talk about.

(ps: That treatment applies to any responses to this post which are laden with "ironic" misuse of English. Yeah, I sure am salty. You win.)


False.
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Excuse me, dog$...is it not hostile to call other GAFfers who don't write to your liking "idiots"? Perhaps I'm just a big softy, who's feelings get hurt too easily...but yeah, feels hostile to me.
 
GalacticAE said:
It shows they lack the ability to express themselves in the way you'd like. Someone expressing themselves through slang, poetic words, curse words, or robotic perfect grammar is still expressing themselves in the end. Just because someone is good with words doesnt mean what they have to say is smarter or more intelligent and vice versa.
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How does typing words out incorrectly (like tryna) enhance your expression of them? As others noted, you are free to express yourself however you'd like. I'm free to deem you an unintelligent rube (whether that's an accurate assessment or not) and ignore your posts.
 
Got damn wake up in the morning go take a shower and come back here and I see this thread is still alive.

Got damn.

S/O to Paula Abdul
 
"Tryna" is fine, it's like "gotta" or "wanna", which are pretty much accepted. However I still can't stand people that use "ur", or don't capitalize anything, or don't use any punctuation. I misuse stuff and I don't type in ye olde queen's english, but I at least try to respect whoever might read my posts.

Respect the forum, respect the people who read what you type. The "it's just the Internet" attitude is crazy to me.
 
ckohler said:
Imagine if decades from now a novel will make the "New Yrk Tymes Best Sell3rs" list that contains nothing but this "ppl, YOLO, bruh, m8t" nonsense. I'll weep for language.
This stuff reminds me of "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After" from Cloud Atlas where the English language has devolved into a sort of hick-speak.
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Wow.

Do you know your idea of eloquent speech today is a mangled form of what used to be English? All of society is based on the evolution of communication get over it bruh. The homogenization of culture is natural and so is the idolation and admiration of urban culture.

big ander said:
straight gold

edit: if you think the use of slang automatically makes conversation shallow or "inelegant"...1. as if elegance is the goal of conversation lol you live on fuckin downton abbey or somethin? 2. you don't understand conversation
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Rofl

Tertullian said:
I don't mind slang terms. I don't mind the occasional spelling error either.

I do mind, a little, when people don't even put any effort into using capitalization and punctuation, and generally making their posts readable. It shows a lack of courtesy for the reader. Posting on a message board (or anywhere, really) is an implicit claim that other people should pay attention to you, should read and consider what you have to say. Posting on a message board incoherently says "what I have to say is important and you should read it, but you're not important, so I'm not going to put any effort into making my thoughts readable for you." It says "I deserve your attention without having to put any effort at all into earning it."

My particular pet peeve is when the only punctuation marks in a post are elipses. You get a paragraph of disjointed clauses glued together with elipses. Like this:

"i dunno... i dont think it was really his fault... then again he could have been nicer about it... i think you should give him a break.."

It implies stream-of-consciousness. It's like you're saying "my thoughts are so special and wonderful that you should read them completely unedited and unfiltered."
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Conversely, it could be that the common denominator between people and their ability to both relay and receive communication on a message board has absolutely nothing to do with courtesy, even less to do with effort into making a post legible (which by your standards means using correct punctualization and capitalization), and it's all in your head. It doesn't have to bother you. Your concluded implications of what someone is "really saying" when they write a certain way are really reflective of your own built-in cognitive prejudgments about people, and you're projecting those emotions in an attempt at logical jusfication. But its straight feelings. u jst catchin feelins cuz you insecure dawg...smh...
 
Remark said:
rn = Right Now

I'm sorry to the international ppl out there and when I'm on my computer I type better but when I'm on my phone I just don't feel like typing out full words on a touchscreen tbh, shit is tedious af
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So in order for us to understand your new language we need to memorize a bunch of different abbreviations for you and go out of our way to google them? No thanks.
 
Chezzymann said:
So in order for us to understand your new language we need to memorize a bunch of different abbreviations for you and go out of our way to google them? No thanks.
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Funny enough, it was on GAF where I learned all these strange acronyms I'd never seen before..funnier, I never looked up 90% of them because they were pretty simple to figure out. Go figure..
 
malyce said:
Why are you acting surprised? That's how 90% of the people in this thread that have a problem with it really feel.
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It's pretty sad actually but I'm not surprised.
Chezzymann said:
So in order for us to understand your new language we need to memorize a bunch of different abbreviations for you and go out of our way to google them? No thanks.
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Not even hard to memorize and can come in handy when you tryna text someone mad quick ;-)

See, I just helped you for the future :-)
Zantetsuken said:
Two steps forward, two steps back?
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Not really......
 
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