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It's better to use grammatically correct and conventionally accepted statements. Beginning a response with "I agree" or "Good point" reads pleasantly, without
by rubikscube 15y ago
It's better to use grammatically correct and conventionally accepted statements.
Beginning a response with "I agree" or "Good point" reads pleasantly, without the nails-on-chalkboard effect of the internet-nerd-herd-mind irritating-and-head-scratching-to-regular-people nerd-convention of "This".
Stupid nerds. They seem to like to demonstrate how "non-conforming" they are, but reading sites like this, or worse, reddit, shows how readily they imitate one big nerd group.
- TillE 15y agoWell put. (See? Another variation that doesn't make you sound like a boring idiot.) The internet wasn't so meme-infested ten years ago (except for silly videos), even five years ago. I really think Reddit is to blame.
- wickedchicken 15y agoI think this points to why I dislike "this": it doesn't flow in a normal conversation. Imagine talking to someone in person and responding to a point by stating "this." You use "this" to show people something they hadn't noticed before, not something they just said.
- rubikscube 15y agoAnd the user "mindcrime", commenting elsewhere in this thread, is a fine specimen for my above points: ... I'm the kind of person who likes doing things differently, just to irk people like you. I don't see much value in blind adherence to tradition for tradition's sake. I like killing sacred cows, stirring the pot... ... I'm a radically individualistic anarcho-capitalist / libertarian / atheist type, so I'm just a touch outside of what you might call mainstream... Oh yes, so "radically individualistic." More like his internet-Dawkins atheism is keeping him in a perpetual mental state of rebellion, so that he feels the need to "kill sacred cows" towards people he doesn't even know, by "stirring the pot." The attitude and nerd-rebellion with grammar is comical.