Casual Disdain
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- Posted: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 05:22:10 +0000
Admit it folks, Gaia's grammar sucks. More often that not, people will post things which the average person would need the modern-day equivalent to the rosetta stone to decipher.
Since I have nothing better to do (because I can't find any literate roleplays - *sigh*), I have decided to start a crusade to improve the grammar of the average person's post. Instead of flaming them with "illiterate philistine!" or "uneducated charlatan!", I will take it upon myself to gently and calmly explain their mistakes, and how they can be corrected - which leads me to the reason this is posted in the charities forum:
My avatar looks bad. He looks like he just came from an unruly football match, rather than someone who would be taken seriously when explaining how and when to use a semicolon. Many of the worst offenders on Gaia also have exceptional avatars (probably so that can say "look at avatar" when describing their roleplay characters... ugh). How can I compete? I am not capable of dropping to their level.
Posting haiku in the chatterbox thread has got me only minimal gold - so it is to you, generous Gaians, which I turn to. Many people say "be literate when you post etc. etc." but nobody ever corrects the offenders.
With the gold donated, I intend to purchase:
whee Red Aero-D Top (3000 g) Got it!
2) Stylish Ochre Winter Coat (9200 g)
I admit that maybe I'm setting my sights a little high since I'm starting with 630 gold, but I believe that it is admirable to set high goals. You are what you repeatedly do, said Aristotle. Literacy is a habit, not an act.
If I'm going to go around correcting people, I may as well look good doing it, no? Who are you going to trust: Mr torn-tshirt-sleeves, or a badass inquisitor of grammar?
Current gold (as of 2004-11-23):
1701 (25 nov 04)
34 (26 nov 04) I got an Arrow-in-the-head from a blue box (omigosh) and sold it for 1313g!
People who have donated to the cause:
Nobody so far (weh weh weh)
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More titles (huge thanks, promises of robot artwork, etc.) can be added later, thanks to the glorious device that is 'editable posts'.
Thanks in advance, noble Gaians,
Mr. Syntax
Defender of the Grammatical Conventions of the Queen's English
Member of the GGN
Attaché to the CCESG
Since I have nothing better to do (because I can't find any literate roleplays - *sigh*), I have decided to start a crusade to improve the grammar of the average person's post. Instead of flaming them with "illiterate philistine!" or "uneducated charlatan!", I will take it upon myself to gently and calmly explain their mistakes, and how they can be corrected - which leads me to the reason this is posted in the charities forum:
My avatar looks bad. He looks like he just came from an unruly football match, rather than someone who would be taken seriously when explaining how and when to use a semicolon. Many of the worst offenders on Gaia also have exceptional avatars (probably so that can say "look at avatar" when describing their roleplay characters... ugh). How can I compete? I am not capable of dropping to their level.
Posting haiku in the chatterbox thread has got me only minimal gold - so it is to you, generous Gaians, which I turn to. Many people say "be literate when you post etc. etc." but nobody ever corrects the offenders.
With the gold donated, I intend to purchase:
whee Red Aero-D Top (3000 g) Got it!
2) Stylish Ochre Winter Coat (9200 g)
I admit that maybe I'm setting my sights a little high since I'm starting with 630 gold, but I believe that it is admirable to set high goals. You are what you repeatedly do, said Aristotle. Literacy is a habit, not an act.
If I'm going to go around correcting people, I may as well look good doing it, no? Who are you going to trust: Mr torn-tshirt-sleeves, or a badass inquisitor of grammar?
Current gold (as of 2004-11-23):
1701 (25 nov 04)
34 (26 nov 04) I got an Arrow-in-the-head from a blue box (omigosh) and sold it for 1313g!
People who have donated to the cause:
Nobody so far (weh weh weh)
________________________________
More titles (huge thanks, promises of robot artwork, etc.) can be added later, thanks to the glorious device that is 'editable posts'.
Thanks in advance, noble Gaians,
Mr. Syntax
Defender of the Grammatical Conventions of the Queen's English
Member of the GGN
Attaché to the CCESG
