06-16-2006, 07:10
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BBS pet peaves
I know everyone's got one. What bugs you when you're browsing an internet forum?
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Paragraphs, or lack of them. I bet I'm missing a log of good posts simply because the writer didn't use the enter key to create a line break between thoughts. Can't read that and don't even try.
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06-16-2006, 07:36
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Grammar, structure, usage, capitalization... Actually I'll go one step further, fluency, or lack thereof, in one's native tongue. But as Orwell said in Politics and the English Language - "...it is better to break these rules of language than to do anything barbaric to enforce them." Write like you speak, but use the language properly, for the situation. **end rant**
edit: Um, Kyo, "peaves" is actually "peeves", oh, shit, now I'm gonna get banned, correcting a moderator....
Last edited by x SF med; 06-16-2006 at 07:43.
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06-16-2006, 07:37
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Lack of punctuation, misspelling, and those that type in ALL CAPS.
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06-16-2006, 08:20
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edit: Um, Kyo, "peaves" is actually "peeves", oh, shit, now I'm gonna get banned, correcting a moderator....
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Miss-speeled werds is my midle nam
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06-16-2006, 08:30
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Originally Posted by x_sf_med
Politics and the English Language
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Underlined words that don't include a link 
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06-16-2006, 08:45
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Book titles are underlined, should I use quotes instead?
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06-16-2006, 09:07
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Originally Posted by x_sf_med
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Grammar, structure, usage, capitalization... Actually I'll go one step further, fluency, or lack thereof, in one's native tongue. But as Orwell said in Politics and the English Language - "...it is better to break these rules of language than to do anything barbaric to enforce them." Write like you speak, but use the language properly, for the situation. **end rant**
edit: Um, Kyo, "peaves" is actually "peeves", oh, shit, now I'm gonna get banned, correcting a moderator....
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Technically, it should be "write as you speak."
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06-16-2006, 09:55
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AL- true, I stand corrected, 20 given. No excuse for not proofing my own work.
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06-16-2006, 10:34
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Dial up while on TDY outstide the United States.....like right now.
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06-16-2006, 11:43
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Titles to threads that don't explain the threads content. You click them open just to find if it's something informative or interesting, and it's just crap.
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06-16-2006, 12:16
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Originally Posted by Kyobanim
I know everyone's got one. What bugs you when you're browsing an internet forum?
Mine?
Paragraphs, or lack of them. I bet I'm missing a log of good posts simply because the writer didn't use the enter key to create a line break between thoughts. Can't read that and don't even try.
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This and run on sentences.
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06-16-2006, 13:10
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Never seen my pet peeve on this forum. That, being the distortion of script to appear like hieroglyphics.
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06-16-2006, 13:14
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Ahhh, yes, the old unrecognized font into ASCII characters routine - very annoying
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06-16-2006, 15:28
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Guerrilla
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Posts that are only a link, with no summary given on the contents. Secondarily is a link that does not indicate that it's actually a download.
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06-16-2006, 15:37
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NTITAI, acronyms.
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