...I'm a language conservative from hell.
Except for when it's intelligent play, like on Buffy.
About Me
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- I'm just like everyone else; a mass of contradictions.... I want things to go my way, but I'm often disappointed by the outcome when they do. I love solitude, but choose to spend most of my time with people. I long for, but am terrified of, permanence. Learning to embrace (or at least endure) loss of any kind is my greatest challenge. I live in Oneonta with my good friend Joel, my ex-boyfriend's cat, Clovis, and a ton of plants.
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I been writing like a talk for a long time now, except for academic shit where I can't get away with it.
For example, I write "I been," because the "have" seems so extraneous - and I never say "I have been" or "I've been," so why write it? You know what I mean, and that is the most important part.
Yeah, I write like I talk too. Or, I should say, I talk like I write, since I'm more comfortable writing than speaking. The only things I say that I don't generally spell out pronounciationally (as it were) are 'gonna', 'wanna' and 'prolly'.
But you said it - the most important part - is that communicaton remains intact. However you wanna write it, great, as long as I can figure out what the hell you mean, and it doesn't take me tons of work or 3 re-readings to figure it out. (Which is why typos are so annoying - they catch your eye and drag it back and interrupt the flow of communicaton.)
A lot of emails (epecially emails) I have to read over 3 or 4 times, and then finally just guess at what the person is trying to say. Which is irritating, to say the least. And selfish - if someone is using so many abbreviations to save themselves time writing, that I have to spend twice the time and energy trying to read the damn thing, then I'd rather send it back and ask'em to clean it up. Punto final.
Or you can get with the kids today and learn the shorthand. ;)
And I hope you ain't talkin' 'bout my emails, or else I'm gonna be angry! ;)
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