Facebook

who's on it?

You could be on my face. [/typical response]

Sorry, couldn't be helped. Can you tell I'm happy to have you back?

Uh, I'm not...

I will be in a minute----Signing up now.

Look who's talking, Mr. Shrub...

Slacker...

I'm on facebook. Under my real name, but I have a llama as my main picture

I'm on it and managed to find some old school mates and such like.

So we're all meeting up and getting pissed!

Ok. Cool.

I signed onto Myspace with Rise almost a year ago, and well, it was focked.

I honestly don't have the time to put into it. Fancy pictures and flashy "wallpaper" backgrounds with nice music and all that.

I went to Qoop's and was focking blown away by her efforts -- it was a bloody multimedia extravaganza with cool music and pictures and stuff. It was quite cool, but I can't be buggered doing it, hey.

ROFL!

I had a focking picture of me fishing with a comment how I like beer and broads. That was it.

Jesus.

But it's cool if people are inclined to put effort into it. I even noticed that our lad Rise had quite a few friends and stuff happening.

Nice chiccys too.

Riser and chicks? You got to be kidding...

They were leaving friendly notes to him too.

"Oh M, we missed you at such-and-such"

"Hi M, just checking in to see how your boxing went"

Nice girls too. Of course, our lad Rise is a gentleman and responds as such.

Quite the networking tool for him, I believe.

When did you master control of the Wingding? I'd run if I were you. Wingy doesn't like people telling him what to do.

Oh dear. He thinks he has the Wingding under control.



I can see this ending very badly...

Not all of them, though.

Yes, you put in quite a few, didn't you?

Well done. You can go now.

Wow, your like a giant puncutation machine.

Do you have any further education in English or something?
Never beeen good at English - never saw a point to it [/flame required]

But really, it's impressive your that good at punctuation [/apologies for spelling any incorrect words]

Ok, when do you use 'your' and 'you're'.

I understand the need to communicate to people, but if you get the point across then why worry bout a little typo and error here and there?

I don't complain about typos - we all make them from time to time and by no means immune...

There's a big difference, however, between making an occasional typo and consistently misspelling simple words, using completely the wrong punctuation, and using garbled grammar. In it's mildest form, it makes things difficult to read. At it's worst, it can actually be extremely difficult to work out what the author was actually trying to say.

Whilst you may say that such pedantry has no place on a forum primarily here for fun/amusement (and to some extent I would agree with that notion), experience teaches me that people who can't write properly in informal situations also can't write properly in formal ones. I've lost track of the number of colleagues I've worked with who can't write a simple letter or a professional email, and I'm convinced that the lack of standards has come about due to a general acceptance of poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

The problem certainly seems to be many, many times worse with today's youth (people aged 18-30) than the older generation. It has reached the stage now where I'm even getting sent CVs (resumés) with errors in them by recruitment consultants. Yes, that's right - not only did someone wanting a job not bother to check their work (or worse still, didn't know what was wrong with it), but the consultants didn't notice either! Needless to say, unless the candidate is otherwise excellent, the CV goes in the bin without calling the candidate to an interview. I've better things to do all day than correct people's spelling - I'd have become a teacher or a proof-reader if I wanted to do that.

[/rant]
Sorry, went on longer than intended, but it does really bug me that people can't even speak their mother tongue properly anymore.


Oh, and in case you actually care...

"Your" is a possessive, indicating possession.
For example; "this is your umbrella" or "your breath smells bad".

"You're" is a contraction of "you are" - the apostrophe is there in this case to demonstate that letters have been removed (same as in "didn't" , "can't" etc)

Instead of all that, you could just tell the dingleberry to fu[i][/i]ck off...not much puctuation required in that.

You make a persuasive argument...

Barry, there is more to it than you thought.

I won't read garbled posts. I get tired of the mistakes and simply start skipping posts because, in truth, a good portion of it is unreadable to me.

That is a superb post; worth quoting again, I thought. Llama, you know as well as I do that there's no good reason for you to apologise at all for the length of your post in this regard. It was refreshing to read.

Ws approach is still a hoot though.

To reinforce your point about the "younger generation" (despite myself falling into your broadly referenced age bracket ), I absolutely agree that basic English for many students has gone by the wayside courtesy of "outcomes" learning that does not insist on correct usage, grammar and punctuation.

There's a generation of "u dont want to come overs -- ok -- see yas later" etc. There are myriad examples of this with young kids and it's a hopeless sign of the times.

I've stopped reading it when I've seen it. I genuinely can't be bothered with deciphering half the shite that I see.

Love ya' bro.


*raises Stella*

LMFAO!

heheh tomorrows the 4th and im is gonna be getting shi[i][/i]tty, massa!

What is is, around 9pm there, PDT time?

Ok. So I'll be fully tanked by the time you're probably having breakfast. Jesus! lol

PM'd you, mate.

+7 Pedantry. Nice one.