Web posting habits that drive me to distraction
Not that I'm one to complain constantly or owt (or lie blatantly in the first line of a post), but there are certain habits, particularly prevalent on certain blogs and web fora, that drive me to want to pull out each of my eyelashes with blunt tweezers.
1. Lol - This is not a punctuation mark. It does not make a rude comment sound funny and it does not need to be added to the end of every sentence, lol.
2. Punctuation allergy - Seriously there is a point at which a sentence ends you need to understand it's not just unreadable its really annoying especially as you also cant seem to be bothered to spell or otherwise punctuate get a life lol.
3. Capitalism - Its Really Not Necessary To Capitalise Every Single Word In A Sentence Just The Names And Places Its Even More Irksome When Combined With Punctuation Allergy, Lol.
4. Multiple Orgasm - When you have to end everything with forty five exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or, even more annoying (lol):
5. Interrogation - When every question, particularly more arrogant and angry ones, ends with multiple question marks?????????????
(Oh, btw: lol)
6. Comic Sans - this makes me want to cry. You are costing typographers jobs, you know.
Comments
I hear you.
But you have to understand (and here I'm not sure if you are talking about us in Vox or all the web) that there are a lot of "us", meaning people over 45, non native English speakers, to whom (and I am not sure if the "m" is apropiate here but can't d spell check) the typying becomes something that needs to have an inflection, a feeling, not only that but, in my case, I have keyboard dyslexia, and sometimes even when reading it twice and trying a spell check, I fail to deliver properly.
here I am talking about the exclamation marks and interrogation (question) others, which are my vice. I have to admit that the LOL becomes annoying at times, and I have a very, very dear friend who writes her mails to me all in capitals.... I have tried to explain, but no success there.
I am also guilty of lots of dots in finishing a sentence and also brakets mania....
But I reckon all these, (the ones you dislike, the ones I dislike, the ones I make abuse) are nothing compared to what I see when my daughter(12), my niece(11) and her friends (some of them as old as 16, in 6th forms) mailing each other or writing on msn.... reckless assasination of the language.
I don't mind the occasional lapse; it's just, as you say, total language assassination that really annoys me.