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but I found Darth Whatever.

You know, when Germans took him during WW2.

Here.



Happy Thanksgiving.

*eats a dinosaur to forget the mental image and drinks all the bleepka to finish the job*

Happy Thanksgiving, happy late-anniversary-of-my-joining-the-Board, uh, my hand is cold?

TFTD is set on near-future earth, and centers on a cross-national force with no particular naming patter. You don't need to know the cannon to help out.

I had a Spanish supervisor once, who said about a Mexican colleague: "look what they already did to Spanish".

I'm less bothered about people butchering grammar when speaking than when writing.

And i'm sorry about informing you about a potential distraction.

I don't swear much in RL anyway, but I almost never use swear words online. That's mainly a familiarity thing, though, because I do use them with people I know well.

But what I have noticed is that my grammar somehow becomes more formal online. Most noticeably, I have a tendency to write things like 'it is' out in full, when I would always use the contracted forms in speech. (It only happens with some contractions though, for some reason). And this is when I'm IMing a close friend, so it's hardly a familiarity thing, or a case of reading over my words carefully before I post them. For some reason, my brain automatically converts things as I write them. But then, I write in a very formal style anyway, (the product of several years' worth of lab reports), so that could be something to do with it.

Weird. I never noticed that before.

(Also, online I do not have the bad habit of dropping the occasional 'like' into my sentences. And now that I think about it, I don't think I would actually use the phrase 'most noticeably' in regular speech).

Okay! *throws toast hither, thither, and yon*

^___^

Happy Thanksgiving! I bring awesome mashed orange-y sweet potatoes with a sweet pecan topping. Dig in. It's good, and definitely the real deal, unlike that turkey-shaped whatsit. *pokes so-called turkey with a stick and watches it jiggle*

Also, Lost Tales update: SIELU is up and mostly running, and I'm almost done tweaking Aerilyn and Zera's four missions into shape, too. Anyway, it's all legible; it's just the minor details that need working out. So enjoy. {= )

~Neshomeh

*places pumpkin bread on a table* I mostly grateful for eh... New books to read and good school grades. Also, "A Very Potter Musical".

I just realized while replying to a comment -- I also do more subtext and simultaneous tangents while speaking online. I mean, you have italics, the LJ small tag (some other websites don't take it. awful other websites!), strikeout for when you're not sure if you want to say something but are blurting it out anyway, with html tags!, and (of course) parentheses. Which are a staple, how could I forget them?

So yes. Multiple conversations at once are much harder in spoken communication, and people are more likely to blink at me when I review five minutes back and go "Wait, no, that's the statue of Liberty!" than to take it in stride and start speculating on what that has to do with chickens wearing hats.

...Then again that might have more to do with who I talk to, as well, since I know some people who even in text can't stand the parenthetical conversations.

I'm also more likely to repeat words in spoken communication -- I've had "uncommon words repeated within fifteen or so words of each other will jar the reader, don'doit" ground into my head fairly well -- and my sense of humor works better when you know I'm going "Hi" sarcastically every three minutes instead of it provoking the reaction of "wtf how long is your attention span, seriously, I'm over here"...

Again, might be more that the people I talk to online are better at the kind of talking I do~

(ooh, and online lets you do emoticons! which confuses me sometimes when I want to emphasize with them and have to remember, wait, I can talk whilst making faces? craaaazy.)

...Dutch people sound like Mexicans. Or at least like people in my town. Just saying.

(Although I guess part of it is that Spanish you have to match so much, so if you just hear the verb - for example - you might know the gender of the person who did the thing, when they did it and how familiar the speaker is with them? I'd say what they were wearing as well, but then I'd be exaggerating just a bit.)

I swear more online mostly because I feel more comfortable with it, but -- the tangents? The derailings? The RANDOM CAPSLOCK? Pretty close to how I talk. It's easier to understand because you aren't getting (many of) the dropped letters/syllables, there's not the Sarcasm Inherent In The Capital Letters Dammit Jai It's Your Fault I Do These Title Caps, and online I'm more likely to do separate sentences instead of trying to make a point in one long sentence that I shouldn't be able to get out without breathing and asIfinishitIendupspeedingandhighpitchedandlikethis, but other than that -- pretty close together.

...I apologize more online too, probably because there's more of a lag for me to do it in.

At least, that's what they told me it was in the cafeteria. It is turkey shaped. That counts for something, right?

and realizes somebody already brought alcohol. Never mind. There's still a dinosaur to eat.

No, I didn't know about it. Maybe I'll save that for a really really dull day.

~Neshomeh

To the PPC!
*drinks*
And a happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

Why is it easier to compose a thought in writing? I don't know. What I do know is that it isn't easier for everyone. Maybe it comes with experience reading and writing? Maybe it's just a natural extension of any ability with written language?

You're right about not necessarily taking the time in IMs. I guess my language in IMs is closer to the way I speak. In casual conversation, I'm much more likely to use one-word or very short responses; I'm more likely to drop words if context makes them obvious. I get more formal if it's a serious conversation, though.

I think a lot of the why behind it all comes down to "because I can." *shrug*

~Neshomeh

From the way he phrased it, I think he's more against abusing cross-posting, to avoid getting banned or whatever.

I don't know about the crossovers; maybe he read some really bad ones in the past?

Hi, PPCers! Long time, no Sue see. That's changing a little bit, however, as I am reviving the Pirates of the Caribbean Mary Sue report! So, for all of you who will be too full of turkey to do anything else tonight, you're welcome to check out the new entries on Heave Ho.

This year, I am thankful that one of my favorite TV shows is solving the biggest mystery of its eight seasons. Of course, I'm also on pins and needles as to how the show is going to end. But because I love Monk so very much, I am writing its origin story here. (This fic can be read as a regular mystery, even if you've never been in the fandom.)

So, a toast to the PPC! To humor and good writing! And to many years of Sue-slaying ahead.

Happy turkey day!

~Araeph

...What?

I know what you mean. I swear like a sailor offline (or used to; my friend has been guilting me into the cessation of that habit), but other than that, I think my speech patterns don't change much. I stutter a bit, or stammer, but still occasionally speak in couplets or break out archaic language patterns-- which actually makes the swearing that much more fun, honestly.

I think it's easier to swear out loud, because speaking is such an effortless part of your brain, it's practically a subconscious effort, especially if you get into any kind of a habit-- goes for any expression. Typing, on the other hand, you get to see what you've put up (if you do the very tiniest bit of proofreading, anyway) before it actually goes up, and also as you're typing it-- and it's not nearly as subconscious a means of communication.

Plus when you get into the habit of writing for different audiences, and literacy becomes a point of pride, it's harder to do a lot of things-- swearing is just one of them.

I found the link in Tv.tropes, and decided to follow it.

That is brilliant. (I should obviously lurk on f!s more often... d'you know if the ratio of "I ship it"s to interesting secrets has gotten any better recently?)

I mean, like My Immortal, this looks like it was scientifically designed to cause readers to collapse in hilarity. Also, there's this pic:

to use proper spelling and grammar in e-mails and other on-line texts. This is because I sometimes come across articles in magazines about how careless people are in e-mails causing their message to get lost in the mess. Although I do have the habit -- mainly in Dutch -- to leave the subject out of the sentence (e.g. "Went to the shop" instead of "I went to the shop"). And I think I do this too when speaking, though I've never really paid much attention to how I use language when speaking.

In general it can be said though that Dutch people are very careless about their language. They only half-pronounce words, leave out words that a "good" listener should be able to pick up from context.

As for swearing, probably do that more off-line, but that's because I can't actually drop something on my foot on-line.