A Plea to SocietyFollow

I have to say, this is also what I hate, the utter lack of manors and dignity online, the pure uncencored and unchecked ignorance of people with the illusion of ambiguity doesnt impress me, nor anyone else.

if you never posted again, it would be one post too late.

LOL yah i guess that would be a problem!!

should have thought of that since I am a New Media major =)

I couldn't agree more with Eekiki...
I type in-game the same way I do here. No lol, wtf, lmao, etcetera. I type people's and monster's full names, use punctuation, grammar, spelling...the works. Even in party situations...it lets people know I'm not a 7-year-old leading them to a swift death. Of course, I typed this way even when I was very young, so I wouldn't be very surprised to see a teenager typing properly. No, I take that back; I'm surprised to see ANYONE type out a proper sentence, and anyone I witness doing so is added to my friends list with great ceremony. But their age would be a moot point.
In any case, I find that people (who actually matter) tend to have better responses to people who can speak English, not some form of net-ebonics. And if you won't help me because I can type better than you can, well...do I really want your help anyway?

Eekiki, thanks for ranting for me. All I have to do is agree, heh.

Atomicbabe
Definition of ambiguity (noun forms plural: ambiguities)
vagueness; lack of clarity
Manor 1.
1. A landed estate.
2. The main house on an estate; a mansion.
2. A tract of land in certain North American colonies with hereditary rights granted to the proprietor by royal charter.
Dignity# The quality or state of being worthy of esteem or respect.# Inherent nobility and worth: the dignity of honest labor.
1. Poise and self-respect.
2. Stateliness and formality in manner and appearance.
[b]Illusion[/b]
1. An erroneous perception of reality.
2. An erroneous concept or belief. The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief.

So, what you're trying to tell us is that people who don't live in mansions on large estates, online have no self-respect?
Grammar is not just about being able to spell, using ":" properly but also the ability to understand the meaning of the words we are using. I'm sorry to single you out Atomicbabe; the use of the words illusion and abiguity in the same sentence was incorrect; English is a very difficult language. I always have a thesaurus handy to help me find similier words so I can understand how they may fit into a sentence, quite often these words are unnessesary except for a MLA standard paper.
I have come to the conclusion that you either find foul language offensive or that you are poking fun at the thread. =)

Ok for the OP I will try and make this post as neat and presentable as possible, I'm from south london so my accent is probably harder to understand than my typing.

Ok before I even started playing FFXI I had no clue what words or rather comments like "rofl" and "lmao" meant. Even today I see new "lollapaloozas" that I need to decipher. After a couple of months of playing, these letter combos were my new online language and the only way I could communicate with foreign gil sellers. They dont know what "be quiet" means but they sure as hell no what "stfu" means.

Please dont get me wrong and think that I watch Richord Prior stand-ups and sit there saying "laugh out loud" instead of actually laughing... or that im pro-"under 13 only yahoo chat" speak because I'm not. At the same time I dont think people should be restricted to use proper grammar in an online game. I use proper grammar when it is important to use it otherwise I like to feel laid back and write however I want.

I'm sorry to say it but the posters who complain about other peoples grammar have to take a look at how sad their lives have become. I mean really do you want to look back at your life and say "I complained about grammar on an online gaming forum, damn that makes me proud". I'm sure your grandchildren will have a lot of respect for you.

A "plea to society" should not be about grammar it should be about the rise of gun crime or the amount of drugs being sold to children and if we're talking about FF it should be about the rise in gil selling and how our economy is screwed.

My quick plea to society is that someone should fraps all these gil sellers and post it on an SE forum then maybe just maybe something will be done about it.

Can the next thread please be a bit more selfless and discuss something that we will all benefit from an not just your corneas?

{Peace} Z

P.S. This is a funny post coming from a taru, isn't your grammar-wammar supposed to look like this?

I almost never abbreviate when posting in forums, but do so quite often in game. The biggest reason for this is that although I play on the PC, I still use a Saitek gamepad and it is generally in my hand. I end up typing with 3 fingers in a rather dramatic reach from my semi-reclined office chair to the keyboard. I'm not really a lazy person, however when I'm not at work or physically training, I tend to want to relax. I don't generally use much "leet speak" but i do have horrible, to the point, grammar at times and almost never correct hurried spelling. Anyway, I do understand your issue with "cleaning up the environment" and I empathize, but I hate playing completely from the keyboard so I'll never be able to conform to such a standard. So, yes, I guess I'm lazy. <.<

Sorry to name names, but look on these forums for the postings of one Demonspawnmatt. His posts are what I'm talking about. They are nearly unreadable because he refuses to use any kind of capitalization, punctuation, or paragraphs.

Yes, I understand that u means you, and ur means your or you're. But a large chunk of the population has taken the use of net-speak to the point where what they type is not understandable. Use all the abbreviations, acronyms, and shortcuts you want, but realize that no one can read minds. Just because you know what you're trying to say doesn't mean anybody else can.