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I want to be rude. The mix of "The same consideration applies to coordinate systems:" and "r u positioning urself..." in the same message is ridiculous to me a
by Brian_K_White 2y ago
I want to be rude.
The mix of "The same consideration applies to coordinate systems:" and "r u positioning urself..." in the same message is ridiculous to me and I can't take anyone seriously who speaks like this.
It's not illegal or immoral, but it is at the very least, demonstrably distracting from their own actual substantive point. Here we all are talking about that when they otherwise had a perfectly good observation to talk about.
Everyone is jumping on your use of the word "serious" as though you meant serious like cancer instead of just not texting ya bro bout where u at tonite, as though there are only two levels of formal and informal, the two extremes.
If this is so casual and we are txting, then why did they use punctuation and no emojis? Ending sentences with periods is verbal abuse now, so, I guess we're not txting after all? Pick a lane!
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- ziddoap 2y agoPeople taking such offense to something so absolutely inconsequential, on an internet forum no less, is ridiculous to me and I can't take anyone seriously who gets worked up about it. You, and parent poster, understood them fine. You, and the parent poster, are the ones who are steering the conversation in the direction of how they typed, not what they typed. They had a "perfectly good observation to talk about", yet u decided not to talk about it.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoIt's at least as valid, in fact more so, to say that I was distracted by something they decided to say. There is no objective way to assign all blame for the tangent to just us or just them, however the closest you can come is to say that whoever speaks first is more responsible for their unprompted speech than responders are for their reactions. They chose their reactions, but they are not reactions in a vacuum, they are reactions to something, that came from someone else.
- thunderfork 2y agoBoth reactors and reactees have equal opportunity not to speak. A reactor who reacts simply to nitpick provides much less to a conversation than a reactee with interesting thoughts expressed unusually.
- moi2388 2y agour both rite
- zajio1am 2y agoI do not know about native speakers, but for me as a non-native speaker, such informal language is much harder to read.
- School-Cotton 2y agoI'm a native English speaker and whether it's harder to read depends on what you mean by "harder". It's immediately obvious what it means (so it's not "harder" in that sense), but on the other hand, it's jarring and distracts me from the point being made.
- c22 2y agoStuff like this could be an innocent attempt to obfuscate one's stylometric fingerprints. I just read around it like mistakes from ESL commenters.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoagreed and good to remember, thanks
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