Things that piss you off?

[Sarojaede]

My fucking shitty ass ISP Force9 can go to fucking hell! Over a fucking month they'd had problems with their service being intermittant...have they fixed it? FUCK NO...here's what they say..



FIND THE FUCKING FAULT ALREADY YOU FUCKING CUNTS

all, i can say is that i need to take cursing lessons from MH here.

 

[Quoll]

That one of my threads has been used a lot lately, I wish it wasn't so.

 

[Eilan]

BTW, Mary Hall, that is an outstanding post.

I think it feeds my soul.

Oops--wrong thread.

 

[Nightbird]

Is this kind of spelling done on purpose?

"Damnit why does tha song make my tummy clench hearin it an thinkin a Him?"

 

[silverwhisper]

NB: dear god, i sincerely hope not. if so, i weep for the future of the english language.

ed

 

[Sarojaede]

NB: dear god, i sincerely hope not. if so, i weep for the future of the english language.

ed

if you really want to weep for the future of the english language, i'll send you a sample of student writing.

 

[silverwhisper]

o dear god, please not that...

 

[Sarojaede]

Here, Silver...some gems that I have saved from in-class writing samples:

If one did not think critically then they wouldn’t understand things like one may.

Critical thinking makes reading and writing excited.

Without being able to read or write then you wouldn’t be able to write, or understand what you are reading.

With new ways of writing, people now have a new way to write.

 

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[Sarojaede]

I am now patting myself on the back for my writing abilities.

Good, because if you ever doubt them again, I will bestow upon you the most horrific paper that I ever had the displeasure/pain of reading and grading.

 

[silverwhisper]

[gollum]it burns us![/gollum]

[makes note to self: do not piss of SJ]

i felt myself losing IQ points with each word.

ed

 

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[Sarojaede]

[makes note to self: do not piss of SJ]
ed

remind me some time to tell you what i said to the the student who emailed me three days before the semester started one spring semester to ask me how much writing we would be doing in my class.

when i replied that it was a writing class, hence the title, Introduction to Scientific and Technical writing, he then proceeded reply to my to ask me if i could make the course less work because he needed to focus on his engineering classes because they were more important to him as an engineer than my class would ever be to him or any engineering major.

 

[Eilan]

remind me some time to tell you what i said to the the student who emailed me three days before the semester started one spring semester to ask me how much writing we would be doing in my class.

when i replied that it was a writing class, hence the title, Introduction to Scientific and Technical writing, he then proceeded reply to my to ask me if i could make the course less work because he needed to focus on his engineering classes because they were more important to him as an engineer than my class would ever be to him or any engineering major.

Sounds like the nursing student sections of Comp II that I used to teach. So how did you respond?

if you really want to weep for the future of the english language, i'll send you a sample of student writing.

One former student of mine (a native of Michigan's Upper Peninsula) handed in an in-class writing assignment with the sentence "People in Southern Ohio don't know the intelagent way to do things."

It was an in-class assignment, so I merely circled the misspelled word and gave him full credit for his effort, but not before I'd made copies of his paper and put them in my colleagues' mailboxes.

 

[SweetErika]

Is this kind of spelling done on purpose?

"Damnit why does tha song make my tummy clench hearin it an thinkin a Him?"

Here's the odd thing: I recognize that "style" as belonging to a certain member here from my lurking in other forums. I've looked at that member's earlier posts because I wondered if it was intentional, and it appears they CAN spell correctly when they want to. Or, at least they used to be able to. It looks to me like they adopted the above style to develop a certain persona, or decided to write as they speak maybe.

I hope it's the same person, because I shudder to think there's more than one of them out there. To me, it's not cute or funny, just irritating to read/try to decipher when I come across it in threads. If the whole point of discussion boards is to communicate via the written word, why would someone (alts/trolls excluded) purposely make themselves less comprehensible, and portray themselves as ignorant and having a poor grasp of their native language?

 

[midwestyankee]

Here's the odd thing: I recognize that "style" as belonging to a certain member here from my lurking in other forums. I've looked at that member's earlier posts because I wondered if it was intentional, and it appears they CAN spell correctly when they want to. Or, at least they used to be able to. It looks to me like they adopted the above style to develop a certain persona, or decided to write as they speak maybe.

I hope it's the same person, because I shudder to think there's more than one of them out there. To me, it's not cute or funny, just irritating to read/try to decipher when I come across it in threads. If the whole point of discussion boards is to communicate via the written word, why would someone (alts/trolls excluded) purposely make themselves less comprehensible, and portray themselves as ignorant and having a poor grasp of their native language?

Unfortunately, this person is hardly the only such poster at Lit. I know someone who has a graduate degree who sometimes posts in this same manner, not unlike the use of text-speak. Yikes is the only civil response.

 

[Eilan]

Unfortunately, this person is hardly the only such poster at Lit. I know someone who has a graduate degree who sometimes posts in this same manner, not unlike the use of text-speak. Yikes is the only civil response.

u r a h8er.

 

[silverwhisper]

don't make me bust out my l337 skillz. :>

ed

 

[Phaedre]

TTPYO...

finally being able to access the lit forums to then discover yesterday that once again I couldn't!

 

[silverwhisper]

hey, you're back! :> woo-hoo!

ed

 

[Phaedre]

hey, you're back! :> woo-hoo!

ed

Just don't ask me to explain WTF is going on with it as I haven't a frelling clue. Am tempted to leave the PC on and the tab open later just in case it decides to lock me out again!

 

[silverwhisper]

heh...that may not be the worst idea in the universe. :>

ed

 

[AboutFace]

When someone that you loved and now have a supposed "friendship" with doesn't bother to call for DAYS after he knows you've had surgery. Inconsiderate - and REALLY pisses me off.

 

[bobsgirl]

The seventh circle of hell that is the automated phone system of my HMO.

 

[Sarojaede]

That I make completely idiotic choices some days.