For the love of god...

[Niamh Sedai]

You don't have to pick your ajah yet, sillies :p And we're not doing it so you'll go Blue. We're doing it because we approve of your excellent spelling and grammar and you dedication to it *lol*

 

I know Kath... "idgios\hdddfbgdpd"= I went to Iceland. It was cold.

 

Maybe we could start back on people who type like the above *grins*

[Zardi]

Oh, ok. I see. :)

[Maria]

Oh yes, maybe I should have specified that.

 

And ooh.. a maths geek. I may have to reconsider my adoption offer :P j/k of course

 

And yeah, I know what you mean by your writing skills deteriorating in college. It's the same for me, only I don't do maths, I'm an English major. No idea why this is happening.

[JenniferL]

You'll find this hard to believe, but my hadwriting will get worse in the summers. I stop practicing and it becomes a weird scribble. It'll take a week of rewriting things on the whiteboard before my students stop complaining.

[Lanthirrhos]

:shock: oooo! *looks at bunny* Wow... its closer than i thought....

[shanara74]

*Grins* I wasn't near to deciding my Ajah (or even Shan's RP one yet), so I guess that's a good thing!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

What's up with the bunny, Great Mother Kath? :D

[JenniferL]

The bunny tells me how much longer I have until Dragon*Con. I'm the Director of Wheel of Time programming there.

[Lanthirrhos]

Hences it says 1 month, 1 week, 5 days to Dragon*Con... :P

[shanara74]

AAAAAAAhhhhhhhhah. 12th, your sarcasm cleared it all up for me. :lol:

[Lanthirrhos]

:lol: Anytime! you should listen to me in person... i 'sarcasm' everything.... :D Although i've been suppressing the urge here on DM, so sry 'bout that!

[shanara74]

S'alright... I have a similar problem. It's fuuuun. :D Especially when they think you're being serious. :lol:

[Dwynwen]

My handwriting used to be great (in elementary school), but it has deteriorated over the years. People can read it if I write slowly, but I'm the only one who can read my notes from classes.

[shanara74]

My handwriting has devolved from prim and proper cursive (when I started writing) to loopy, vaguely Arabic/Celtic looking printing.

[Lanthirrhos]

When i print... it looks like a 4-5 year old did it... :lol: And i'm one of those who only i can read my notes... :P

[Zardi]

I never took to cursive, for some reason. As soon as my teachers stopped mandating it at around 6th grade, I switched back to print. It's easier to read that way, too :P

[Lanthirrhos]

:lol: yeah... i took to cursive... i just can't write... :P

[BlingBlingSedai]

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[JenniferL]

I invoke Godwin's Law. This conversation is over.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law

[BlingBlingSedai]

The way I've always thought of it is' date=' "If you don't care enough to make your posts readable, then why should I care enough to read them?"

 

Putting in apostrophes, spelling things correctly, using periods and capitals where needed, these things all make your posts easier to read. If I'm pressed for time, or feeling lazy, I will skip posts that aren't formatted correctly. [b']I'm not a grammar nazi[/b], obviously, but I do try to make things readable for you.

 

Corollaries and usage

 

There is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress.

 

It is considered poor form to arbitrarily raise such a comparison with the motive of ending the thread. There is a widely recognized codicil that any such ulterior-motive invocation of Godwin's Law will be unsuccessful From linked Wiki

 

 

As you used the word first, and are now invoking, I hereby deny your invocation of Godwin's Law.

 

 

hehe

[JenniferL]

Since this entire thread fell under the jurisdiction of the Wilcox-McCandlish Law several pages ago, I call your denial to be null and void. Good DAY, sir!

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilcox-McCandlish_law_of_online_discourse_evolution

[BlingBlingSedai]

Bah...foiled again.

 

Good pull mother. I forgot about that one. :BB

[Niamh Sedai]

I think it's a real shame, I have no clue what you two are going on about... *lol*

[JenniferL]

I am probably the only person here who knows what a newsgroup is, much less reads one semi-regularly. But its only r.a.sf.w.r.j.

[BlingBlingSedai]

usegroup, usenet, irc, altgroup, they use to be popular, now it's the shadier side of the intre netter.

[JenniferL]

Used to be usenet and IRC WERE the internet. Now its all "pirated music" this and "Myspace" that. You young whippersnappers have no idea.

 

I really don't either. I got online when the web was taking over. I've always used a webbased email as my primary account. I had a personal Geocities page back in the day and I thought that was pretty slick. Now you've got teenagers offering streaming video of themselves singing japanese pop songs while texting their neighbors cell phone.

 

When did I get old?