The Glade 4.0

Would it really kill you ignorant non-typing bastards to express your thoughts in complete sentences with proper spelling and punctuation? You're trying (I assume) to run a business. Do you communicate to your prospects this way? Taking an extra 30 seconds to complete your request can save minutes on both sides when we have to clarify what you want.

While we're at it, how the hell can you run a business with an @aol.com email address? Really? In the IT field?

Come on man.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Y r u mad? lol cant u read wht they r typing?

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

I'm going to invent the /facestabOIP

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Holy shitsnacks!

I still use correct spelling and punctuation (as much as the phone permits anyway) in text messages.

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The Dude abides.

What is wrong with an @aol.com address? Why change something if you do not have to if it already suits your purposes and carries no additional costs?

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Gorse

Its the IT field. @aol.com is like showing up to a car show in a clapped out old Pacer.

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Holy shitsnacks!

LMAO; now that you work with me.. I know to whom you refer.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Some of my friends and I have tried over and over to explain to others of our friends that we will simply not reply to a message (e-mail, text, IM) that does not make a reasonable attempt at mimicking the English language.

I use punctualization and capitalization, you can too!

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

Texting, I can somewhat understand because its a limited format with a limited entry pad (Unless I *know* you have a qwerty... then **** you).

IMing, You have a similar canvas as email, and you can use full sentences and grammar to convey a message.

Email? There's no goddamn excuse for either. Especially in business communication.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I have an ancient phone, and I still manage to use proper punctuation/capitalization.

It's not hard, it just takes a tiny bit more effort.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

Texting for me is about fitting the message to my space limitation. Email - depends on the formality of the communication.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

There was someone I worked with who would write emails with no puctuation (except ????? which he had a facination with and used very liberally) or capitalization. His sentences used incredibly poor grammar and had to be decifered for their meaning. The worst thing is, this also applied to documents he wrote.

He was a contractor (not an employee) who lasted 6 months before he was finally let go. Generally it has taken about 4 weeks to get rid of a clearly incompetent contractor (once it only took 2 weeks). Yet somehow he lasted 6 months while managers tried desperately to find something for him to do. Eventually they had me reviewing everything he did, which usually involved me nearly doing it myself.

I'll give you exactly 1 guess as to why I believe it took so long (its honestly the only thing I could come up with to explain it).

Which do you find worse, text speak in texts or text speak as spoken word?

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"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
- George Soros

Spoken word.

And if I had a superpower, it would be the ability to reach through the internet or telephone and strangle people to death.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I'm another of the always use proper spelling and punctuation people, other than capitalization, as it's a pain on my phone.

Though I do use text speak now and again on things like fb and such when I feel like being retarded.

That's slightly worse than my GS-15 boss using emoticons in work related emails.

QFT!! I'll hold them down for you DE!!!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

I'm amused to discover that there are actually 7 hits on google for Face Stabbing Over IP

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Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

The comic is win.

This is one of my pet peeves as well. I see it all the time, in e-mails, in tickets put in by users and help desk people. Horrible spelling and grammar. These are things seen by MANY people, and you look like idiots. Spend 30 seconds, finish typing your sentences, and run a goddamn spell check. Idiots.

/obligatory

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