Oh, stop!!  Nobody needs to apologize!!  I just cringe everytime I see a post by Gotskates using the word "weird".  I just don't understand how she has never noticed that the word is not "werid", and has never thought to spell check.  It bothers me that by - what, 14? 15? - it hasn't occurred to her to check that her spelling is correct.

This came up in a thread long ago and I think it was determined that that's just the way she is. I think she even apologized. It used to bother me, but now I find it rather comforting....its like something you can always count on and is so very characteristically her. I am serious!  I hope I spelled characteristically right! 

Just like with SB you can always count on rudeness and sarcasm (I mean that in a good way), with GS you can count on misspellings. With Davedrum you can count on the use of these..... >:( >:(  With Capture you can always count on a picture.
With me you can count on me bragging out my number one in the world son, its just who we are!  ;)
Funny thing is, if you read my profile, one of things I like to do is find things that are misspelled. They jump out at me and I can find them in most anything....grammatical errors too.
I love how Baypuppy spells "vegitarian" and "expiriance". I think its cute! 

A LOT of people on here spell "definately" wrong....its "definitely". On this forum it doesn't bother me, although I do notice every misspelling there is.  But it does bother me in brochures, books, and newspapers.

I can't believe no one commented on any of my comments.  :-\
I thought I had some good points and funny things to say. No???? ???
I think I would miss it if GS started using spell check. Call me crazy......

sad, now I feel like I'm talking to myself. Early pregnancy delirium. < spelled right? I'm really not sure and have never used spell check.

i gotta say i'm with kbone all the way here.  and i see no problem with tkitty pointing out that fancy spell check feature, either.  while, yes, i am an english major, and probably way biased, it troubles me to see so many people taking liberties with language and presuming there's no problem with that type of self-reformulation (probably not a word, but that's what i mean).  meanings can become really befuddled and confusing with too many self liberties.  and, with all the 'brb' and 'how r u' crap that everyone seems to know, i actually harbor a secret fear that novels of the future won't contain any words, simply mishmashes of what once were words plus flash-in-the-pan acronyms.

but, to be realistic about the english language, it isn't easy to learn and, like any other discipline, it changes as research, knowledge, and social/cultural behaviors change.  seems that's just the way it is.

i volunteer at the adult literacy league, and my student does not speak english as her first language, so i find myself coming back to the mysterious silent 'e' and often wonder:  what is that e's purpose, anyway?  and then i remember it's a little flag to tell you that 'mope' isn't the same as 'mop,' 'nape' isn't the same as 'nap,' so on and so on.  so, even though letters may seem useless and annoying, when they're placed in the order of a word, they magically tell us that even though cleaning sucks, i'm certainly not going to mope the floors.

blah blah, right?  this feels like a long post, but i really could go on.  i do realize this isn't academia and maybe a veg forum should seem like no big deal - i mean, hey, i'm abandoning capitalization here, but...it's worth the effort to communicate clearly, as it saves time and misunderstanding, so i'll leave it at that.

oh - and if anyone thinks punctuation is a thing of old, check out the quick read 'eats, shoots & leaves.'  the title is based on a panda's behavior - does a panda eat shoots and leaves or does a panda eat, shoots and leaves?  punctuation makes all the difference in whether that panda is an herbivore or a murderer, my friends...

Now 1337 speak, yes.  hehe  Dont make me bust out my 12 years of gamer acronyms on you n00bs!

Oh please do!

Well, when I was a n00b in UO we would get pk'd by the Red's and they would shout "pwnd n00b!".  That made me mad so I moved on to EQ pre-PoP where we pwnd mobs and raided KC!  That grew into ToV where we listened to the big kids in FoH raid while we were in HoT.  Those were the days.  But like all games, we got bored and frustrated and moved to WoW, which was cool and all but too much BWL made me cranky.  So I quit.  Now I just play EQ2 with RL FoF peeps.

Though I also do KoL and the 1337 h4x0r can be harsh!

I heart you Cali.  You're my chatspeak heroine 1337.  Or is it 1337 heroine?  Whatever.  You get it.
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M364N

One of the quarky things to love about baypuppy!

Unless you were referring to Baypuppy as being like an atomic subparticle, I think it's really cute that you spelled "quirky" as "quarky"! ;) :) :) :)

EDIT: Oops I meant subatomic particle! Ha!

One of the quarky things to love about baypuppy!

Unless you were referring to Baypuppy as being like an atomic subparticle, I think it's really cute that you spelled "quirky" as "quarky"! ;) :) :) :)

I live by Fermilab- they smash atoms there and they found a few of the quarks.
I'm sorry, I'm sure no one cares, but I had to throw that in there. 

Fermilab is cool, but CERN is sexier. I'm hoping they will discover the Higgs Boson, so that I can view more of their spokesperson Brian Cox in the news (ummm...yeah, I didn't know a physicist could be that attractive--and he was once a keyboardist for some famous British band in the 90's--forget the name of it)....http://www.liftconference.com/videos/view/single/4

Fermilab is cool, but CERN is sexier. I'm hoping they will discover the Higgs Boson, so that I can view more of their spokesperson Brian Cox in the news (ummm...yeah, I didn't know a physicist could be that attractive--and he was once a keyboardist for some famous British band in the 90's--forget the name of it)....http://www.liftconference.com/videos/view/single/4

I thought I might want to be a physicist for a while.  This was not part of the interest (just a happy coincidence), the physics majors contained the best looking group of men on campus.  They were all mountain bike riders 'n surfers 'n stuff.

welllll, i don't know if you have ever been to SLAC, but the LINAC there is hella sexy (it's ah, two miles long if you know what i mean ;)) 

Uhhh...CERN's Large Hadron Collider is the largest particle accelerator in the world at 27 km long (i.e., in circumference). Stanford can kiss CERN's ass. ;D

I am a very poor speller. If any of you would like to offer inventive solutions to my spelling problem I would very much appreciate it, as i feel I have tried everything to become a better speller. Threads like this make me very nervous because I worry about people thinking I'm unintelligent because of my spelling errors. For the longest time, I believed I was unintelligent because of it. It wasn't until the last few years that realized I was not clinically retarded or something. I'm an avid reader, I always have been. I was sick a lot as a child and could not be physically active like the other kids, so I'd sit on the side lines and read my favorite book, the dictionary. In grade school I never once got a 100 percent on a spelling test although I studied for hours everyday of the week. I have tried many programs to improve my spelling and have noticed only marginal improvements. Its very discouraging. My spelling skills are so poor that I often do not recognize when a word is misspelled (although I will concede that my two most common errors are typographical, "teh" for the and "adn" for and I could avoid those by exercising a bit more caution.) I do make an effort to use the spell check feature when its available on a message board, but even that gets confusing when you have inadvertently spelled a different word, or when your spelling is so poor that the computer doesn't know what you are trying to say and you have to try spelling it 5 different ways before it can recognize it and offer the correct spelling.I have been diagnosed with dyslexia...but it wasn't until I was 17 or so, and by then my confidence had already suffered quite the beating from years of criticisms from my peers and teachers and so forth. My little brother has even worse spelling and reading problems than I have, yet he is definitely one of the post intelligent and compassionate young people I have ever known. He's a total wiz at computers and robotics and even led his academic clubs/teams to state and national victories in Jr high. A person's ability to spell "weird" has nothing to do with their intelligence-- weird was actually hard for me to learn to spell, you see, it doesn't follow the spelling "rules"....

and thats my two cents...I still love you, tkitty! ;)

Awww Zealia - I have to admit, sometimes it takes me a couple seconds to figure out what you're saying. But when you're pooping corn for your chickens, it's so perfectly funny!

hehe...I thought that was funny too! sometimes, you just gotta laugh at yourself!

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I heart you Cali.  You're my chatspeak heroine 1337.  Or is it 1337 heroine?  Whatever.  You get it.
<3,
M364N

Well m364n,

That was actually gamer talk which is mostly just acronyms for frequently used terms or names. 

Leet speak looks like this  (ripped from the KoL Wiki cus I am too lazy to type like this myself):

Now, chatspeak kills me.  I hate to see "H2U!", "how R u?", "idk" and other acronyms for short words.  Makes me want to beat my head on the desk.  Seriously.  Texting is the devil and should be punishable by shoving cell phone keys under the offender's finger nails. 

Ok, back to your regularly scheduled topic, erm derailed topic I mean.  :)

Still, loved it.
I have a full-keyboard phone, so I text full words... usually.  Sometimes you have to just say "brb". ;)
I try my hardest to avoid the shortened word thing... How r u just isn't the same as How are you?, you know?