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Old August 30th, 2004, 09:47 PM
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and in the internet i don't care too much about capitalization and punctuation .

In other words, you don't have enough respect for the people you're communicating with to make an effort. When someone writes sloppily, readers tend to equate the content with the form - ie, both are viewed as sloppy.

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but to judge ones education only with his ability to speak his mother language perfect is a bit too one-sided .

When all the people _have_ is your written words, what else are they supposed to judge you on?
your second point is somewhat true .
but normally when posting something in the internet almost nobody cares about punctuation and capitalization .
in germany we get drilled long enough with this [censored] in school .
since i get no marks if i care too much about capitalization/punctuation etc. when i post something in the internet and since you can post faster with leaving this rules away without damaging the content of your post so why should i care about capitalization etc. ?

as long as i don't study linguistics in university even the professors don't care too much about orthography too .

hey i don't try to write a novel but just a discussion lol


most of you have the blessing being americans . but now in german we decide about a new orthography reform and still nobody is sure if they should do it or not .
so since we were really overdrilled with this crap in school at least i am perhaps especially sloppy there .


but einstein e.g. didn't win his nobelprize for writing perfect orthography but for his discoveries .
not that i am einstein i just wanted to give a good example how unimportant "overperfect" language is as long as you are no politician or a talkmaster .
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Old August 30th, 2004, 10:13 PM
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Boron,

Writing easy-to-read Messages serves several purposes:

1. It helps to give others the impression that you have some sort of education. Perhaps you don't care if you appear uncultured?

2. It engenders appreciation by those that don't have to strain their eyes trying to read and interpret the stuff you write. Perhaps you don't care about how much effort others have to go through to read your stuff?

3. It's polite. Perhaps you don't mind being thoughtless and inconsiderate?

If you make it needlessly hard for others to read what you write, just because you are lazy and/or indifferent, people will stop trying to do so. Then who will you argue with? I'm just about at this point myself. Reading your Posts is more trouble than the content is worth.
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Hey boron, could you take your turn in hard_slog instead of arguing about punctuation?
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Old August 30th, 2004, 10:52 PM
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Hey boron, could you take your turn in hard_slog instead of arguing about punctuation?
did .
thought 1500 minutes left oh well i am surely not the Last surprisingly i was
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Yay! I killed Vanheim's vampire queen, in my dominion. That was the battle I was really interested in. Thanks for taking your turn promptly.
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sweet

omg i didn't change her buff list. I was sure i did.

oh well
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Old August 30th, 2004, 11:26 PM
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Yay! I killed Vanheim's vampire queen, in my dominiion. That was the battle I was really interested in. Thanks for taking your turn promptly.
so you are man ?
poor archaeolept
this makes my poor belkelel probably the only vq which still wasn't killed in hard slog .
hopefully this won't change soon
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Ozy', 'lept, et. al.: isn't there a thread dedicated to your MP game? (hint)

Matters of punctuation aside, and a (hopefully) brief interlude re: some MP game, weren't we discussing Caelumite pretenders?
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Old August 30th, 2004, 11:33 PM
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actually, on the bright side it confirms my dislike for the VQ

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A little less nation bashing, please. Even if it is your own nation, 'flaming' a whole nation, off topic, on a public forum is not likely to provoke anything but another flame.

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Cast Wish -> "Flame Pythium". There go those damned communicants! And my troops are fire resistant
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