[Lee in Limbo]

Originally Posted by RLacey

I'm the one true voice of realism.

Oh, and sorry . Think of it as jealousy, because I can't even manage a fan singular.

Neither can I.

But incidentally, no, I'm not that fickle. She'll get tired of me first. That is the Natural Order of Things.

ETA:

Originally Posted by Squinky

No, he only liked my avatar. Lee loves me for my personality, so he's a true fan.

Every word, dear lady... every word.

;D

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by RLacey

Oh, and sorry . Think of it as jealousy, because I can't even manage a fan singular.

Well, because you were all sickeningly apologetic about it, here's a fan for you:



EDIT: And here's one for you too, Lee:

[RLacey]

Oh man... pink!

[Lee in Limbo]

Originally Posted by Squinky

EDIT: And here's one for you too, Lee:

Charming, elegant and well made.

And it's a very nice fan, too. Thank you.

[samIamsad]

I also used to be a fan of her early works, but then she developed that high-brow attitude, sold her soul to Electronic Arts, switched to 256 colours, dubious Adlib sound and soya milk, stopped porting to my Amiga and started hanging out mostly with the elitist people at adventuregamers.com. Such a pity.

edit: FFS! WHY????

[pinkgothic]

[17:23] <^taurus^> hai,asi pls
[17:23] <^taurus^> asl pls

Shorthand, acronyms, and typos, all in 2 lines. The only thing that speaks for this guy is that he noticed he made a typo.

Anyway - new world record?

[Huz]

yo...y suddenly so cold one - lol..not easy eh..cont tmw..

My Malaysian friend is enigmatic on MSN.

Or possibly just incomprehensible.

[Huz]

Originally Posted by RLacey

I agree entirely. That said, I am annoyed by people that overuse "lol" (as in using it as a default response to anything), though I'm not much better (I tend to type "heh" a lot).

Yes, yes you do. I find 'heh' an irritating response, personally; simply because you wouldn't respond with 'heh' in real life unless you wanted the conversation to come to a swift conclusion.

Incidentally, leading on from this, 'lol' is pronounced the same as 'loll', to rhyme with 'doll'. 'Lawl' is, needless to say, stupid and wrong and anybody who uses it should be shot.

Leading on from this again, 'lol' is so overused that it's lost its potency and I very rarely use it. If something makes me smirk, the default response is a polite 'hee' - the absense of an exclamation mark indicating that I am not actually exploding with mirth - progressing up the scale to the full-blown 'ROFL!!!!!!' with 5000 exclamation marks. This generally only occurs if Lacey has just killed himself in Worms Armageddon or something.

Originally Posted by RLacey

Oh, and I always type out text messages in full and with correct punctuation. That is the sign of the person with higher intelligence .

Or simply the sign of the person who's figured out how to use predictive text, where writing messages out in full is actually far easier than jabbing the keys like a demented monkey to cycle through the available letters.

Text messaging definitely has its place - it's become one of my preferred ways of staying in touch with people simply because it's so instantaneous, easy and ubiquitous - but the length restrictions are painful, as are the garbled messages you're likely to receive in response.

[Crunchy in milk]

Originally Posted by Huz

Text messaging definitely has its place - it's become one of my preferred ways of staying in touch with people simply because it's so instantaneous, easy and ubiquitous - but the length restrictions are painful, as are the garbled messages you're likely to receive in response.

The irony is that with steady progress being made in voice recognition it won't be long till people talk to their phone to compose and send a text message...

Putting aside the stupidity of that - it will end the run of acronyms and unusual spelling. The current technology which forces more people to write/type in order to communicate (quickly/cheaply) over the internet or via SMS is just exposing those of us (yeah me) who scraped by with a string of C's in high school english

The only thing I recall about english in high school is that one of my teachers was a buxom, young, raven haired Italian siren who's chest lured her male students to the bottom of the class.

[undeaf]

Originally Posted by Crunchy in milk

The irony is that with steady progress being made in voice recognition it won't be long till people talk to their phone to compose and send a text message...

That might sound stupid, but there is a benefit / potential point to doing that: to be able to reduce the risk of saying something you'll regret later; if you send a message as a voice recording, you are effectively signing it for if the recipent wants to forward it to anyone, and you're even doing this with a phone conversation if the other person is recording it. Now, there's other ways of doing this, like using some sort of filter or mask that would strip the information which characterizes your voice as yours from the recrding, but that would seem rather odd to most people.

Of course, there's a flip side to such identity masking benefits, ie. facilitation of impersonation.

[RLacey]

I think he meant that the voice recognition would convert your voice to text before sending the message as text, undeaf .

[pinkgothic]

Originally Posted by RLacey

I think he meant that the voice recognition would convert your voice to text before sending the message as text, undeaf .

He knows. He's saying that benefits of a text version is that it isn't "signed" (see his comments about the voice distortion and recorded messages) and you can still decide not to send it (see the comments contrasting it to a phone conversation). Well, if I didn't misunderstand it, anyway.

[Jackal]

Originally Posted by Huz

Yes, yes you do. I find 'heh' an irritating response, personally; simply because you wouldn't respond with 'heh' in real life unless you wanted the conversation to come to a swift conclusion.

How do you figure this? "Heh" is a close approximation to a sound actually made by a kind of half chuckle. I hear people do it all the time. I suspect it's used far more genuinely than the LOL variations most of the time.

Originally Posted by Jeysie

"/me chuckles", "/me snickers" and "/me giggles" also work fine.

This I don't get. The subject is understood, so why add the Neanderthal grammar killer just to make it longer?

[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Jeysie

"/me chuckles", "/me snickers" and "/me giggles" also work fine.

Originally Posted by Jackal

This I don't get. The subject is understood, so why add the Neanderthal grammar killer just to make it longer?

To someone who hasn't Engligsh as first language it sounds really strange. I've seen this methinks as well on the forum, but that turned out to be Shakespearian English (according to Stepurhan)

[Huz]

Originally Posted by Jackal

How do you figure this? "Heh" is a close approximation to a sound actually made by a kind of half chuckle. I hear people do it all the time. I suspect it's used far more genuinely than the LOL variations most of the time.

Really? Is that how most people interpret it online?

From literature and even subtitled adventure games, 'heh' for me is an approximation of the audible response when disinterested.

Originally Posted by Jackal

This I don't get. The subject is understood, so why add the Neanderthal grammar killer just to make it longer?

It's an IRC command, which prepends your nickname to whatever your write after it. "/me sniggers" becomes "Jackal sniggers".

[pinkgothic]

Originally Posted by Huz

Really? Is that how most people interpret it online?

From literature and even subtitled adventure games, 'heh' for me is an approximation of the audible response when disinterested.

*interprets it the same way*

[Jeysie]

Thankee for explaining for my laughing comments for me, Huz. Methinks ( ) that you folks need to drag Jackal and Jelena into the AG IRC channel at some point.

Anyhoo. I admit I tend to use "heh" a lot myself, just because I need to acknowledge I was paying attention to something someone said, but I don't have a "real" response to give.

For me, "ah" indicates understanding, "oh" indicates puzzlement, "hmm" indicates thinking, "mmm" indicates feeling displeased/disagreement, "hah" indicates amusement, etc. One starts running out of ideas for what to use for just a plain old short and completely neutral acknowledgement.

(Yes, I actually think about this sort of thing. I prefer to be as precise and consistent as possible in my use of language.)

As for text messaging... I just don't get it. If I wanted to talk to someone right away, I'd call them and talk to them. If they weren't available, I'd leave a message on their voicemail (let's face it, anyone who has SMS probably also has voicemail, at least with US cell phone packages). If it could wait before I contacted them, I'd write a proper e-mail or IM them.

I can't think of any situation where I'd want to send a cell phone text message that's short and expensive, and I have to type on a device not designed for it, and I likely won't have enough room to get my complete point across without resorting to abbreviations... yeah. But then, there's a LOT of popular stuff I just don't get because it just seems very impractical to me... *shrugs sheepishly*

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Jackal]

Ah, okay. The IRC connection certainly makes more sense now. I've certainly heard of "methinks", but I didn't imagine the other variations were derived from Shakespearean English.

Originally Posted by Huz

From literature and even subtitled adventure games, 'heh' for me is an approximation of the audible response when disinterested.

Hmm, weird. I don't doubt you've seen such things in print, but I'm trying to imagine a kind of vocal equivalent for a use like that, and the closest I can come up with is "huh". Even that doesn't always mean disinterested, though. Maybe I'm just so interesting that no one needs to use it around me. [Also: ]

[Ninth]

To get back on the lol; I'm not so fond of it and seldom use it, but it doesn't bother me that much. What I can't stand is people "lol"ing their own sentences, as if to point out how funny they are.

[RLacey]

Originally Posted by Ninth

To get back on the lol; I'm not so fond of it and seldom use it, but it doesn't bother me that much. What I can't stand is people "lol"ing their own sentences, as if to point out how funny they are.

Agreed. I also find this annoying in spoken conversations, when people insert those incredibly fake sounding laughs into what they're saying.