WHAT THE GODDAMN FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU
"'there', 'they're', and 'their': 1. a location 2. a contraction for 'they are' 3. 'belonging to them' 4. I fucking hate you"
I am delighted by these (shown to me by failu12e) and how totally ridiculous they are. The superfluous profanity; the generous, insensitive use of mental handicaps as an insult; the astounding tongue-in-cheek overreaction to small but common grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes. I am even a little delighted by the snarky-ass comments berating the creator for all their "missteps", which as far as I can tell are all intentional adjustments for design purposes.
In general, I am pleased by the use of punctuation to reflect intonation in written English, especially on the internet. Words are for communicating, and tone is often difficult to discern in written communication, e.g. text message, e-mail, IM. I wholeheartedly (really, that's one word?) approve of the use of a period at the end of a question (i.e. "WHAT THE GODDAMN FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU." Syntactically a question, but said with falling intonation.) Or a question mark at the end of a sentence to indicate "upspeak" even if the sentence in question is intended as a statement! Although that's kind of harder to deal with because then how can you tell the difference between "The dog went to the market?" as upspeak (Speaker #1 is all like telling a story and this is a sequentially related statement) and "The dog went to the market?" as an echo question (Speaker #2 is all like wtf is yo dog doin at the market, he a dog). But anyway INTONATION IS IMPORTANT and we should be capable of orthographically representing it. I WILL START A CAMPAIGN, DAMMIT, I WILL WAGE A WAR
I am delighted by these (shown to me by failu12e) and how totally ridiculous they are. The superfluous profanity; the generous, insensitive use of mental handicaps as an insult; the astounding tongue-in-cheek overreaction to small but common grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes. I am even a little delighted by the snarky-ass comments berating the creator for all their "missteps", which as far as I can tell are all intentional adjustments for design purposes.
In general, I am pleased by the use of punctuation to reflect intonation in written English, especially on the internet. Words are for communicating, and tone is often difficult to discern in written communication, e.g. text message, e-mail, IM. I wholeheartedly (really, that's one word?) approve of the use of a period at the end of a question (i.e. "WHAT THE GODDAMN FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU." Syntactically a question, but said with falling intonation.) Or a question mark at the end of a sentence to indicate "upspeak" even if the sentence in question is intended as a statement! Although that's kind of harder to deal with because then how can you tell the difference between "The dog went to the market?" as upspeak (Speaker #1 is all like telling a story and this is a sequentially related statement) and "The dog went to the market?" as an echo question (Speaker #2 is all like wtf is yo dog doin at the market, he a dog). But anyway INTONATION IS IMPORTANT and we should be capable of orthographically representing it. I WILL START A CAMPAIGN, DAMMIT, I WILL WAGE A WAR