All I ask of other posters is for their post to be legible. I understand that we are on a web forum and we have to type manually, So I can understand people using words like "u" instead of "you" or "btw" instead of by the way. What I dont like is when it gets so much, that you can't make heads or tails of a post, when people type things like: "u no dat wez gota partay @ my houz btwn 4 n 5. b der. dun b l8." That annoys the living hell out of me.
As for using big words, I dont mind it all, as long as its being used for the sake of clarity. There are times when people use words that they know the majority of people don't know. Whats the point in that other than stroking your ego? The point of words is for communication, not to show off your diverse vocabulary. Just be as clear an concise as possible, realize that by posting on a mesage board, your number one concern is that people actually understand what it is you are trying to say.
Here are some examples:
Good use of words : "I dont understand what's going on here" - The majority of posters will clearly know what you meant in your post
Sketchy use of words; "I couldn't possibly fathom what you just said" - Its getting a little pretentious here...Sure it isnt such a complex word, but clearly there are far more common words that mean the exact same thing.
Bad use of a word: "Its an amalgamation of ..." - Ok, this one is bad. You could have clearly used combination, yet you went out of your way to say "amalgamation" to seem more intelligent and to show of your vocab...no one cares.
Terrible use of a word: "Yup, that's melancholia for you." - JESUS H. PRETENTIOUS CHRIST! You couldnt have just said he was depressed? very sad? very unhappy? People like this are more concerned with how their post sounds rather than what it says. They need to chill or go find another place to try and validate their intelligence to themselves.
We all are guilty of this at some point in time, but the worst offenders are specialists in a certain area, or people with more than standard knowledge of a certain discipline. Nothing annoys me more than all the Psych students who come up here and use fancy Psychology terms in an attempt to show off. So unnecessary.
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i see your point, thats why there's a saying "big words are for small minds". i also see some ppl here trying to look intelligent with their vocab but when you're done reading their post you end up like wtf, dude, no you didn't have to do all of that, lol.i don't mean for anyone to dum themselves down but itz clear to me what they are trying to do. but it really doesn't bother me cuz i know how over rated perfect english is in the real world. but, ppl here seem to think that you'll be nothing more then bus boy if you don't know the language....even when there are wealthy ppl in the world who can only say "HI and Bye, Yes and NO " in english. and i can't speak for others, but i like net slang. i don't capitalize on purpose and spell words in my own way and throw it in some of my posts ( not much thou ) just enough to expose the ppl who take frivolous things so serious. theres a time and place for everything but some ppl here seem to think this is the place for everything. sometimes i can sit here at work reading some of these threads and lol until itz time to leave. ppl really need to get out more.
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