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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1397/1881 EXP: 6465293 Next: 185371 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6152 days Last view: 6143 days |
Is there any particular way that you type your posts?
Probably the most defining characteristic of my posts is that I never use smileys, ever. I used to use them rarely (except at TUNMB, where people would toss random ones everywhere as a fad). The only "emoticon" I use is XD, but I always write it as xd. I consider it an abbreviation that doesn't stand for anything, rather than an emoticon. Also, despite living in the USA, I use British spellings like colour and centre, as well as metric units and degrees Celsius. I started doing this in late 2006 as a political protest against the USA, plus I'm obsessed with the UK as much as most Acmlmers are obsessed with Japan. Peh, this isn't a political thread. I used to really overuse ellipses, but I don't use them quite as much anymore... I use "peh" instead of the more common "meh". I used to use "bah" with the same meaning, but I feel that was too closely associated with my Banedon era. |
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 Cheep-cheep Level: 32 Posts: 62/180 EXP: 191400 Next: 15042 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 5970 days Last view: 5963 days |
I often type in a similar way to how I speak, since I read my posts semi-audibly to myself to make sure they flow right and don't end up too confusing.
As far as spellings go, I usually go with the American spellings, with the sole exception of grey. I can probably think of more tomorrow when I have some actual sleep, but there's not really anything special about how I post. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1400/1881 EXP: 6465293 Next: 185371 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6152 days Last view: 6143 days |
I'm not sure that "grey" is entirely a non-American spelling. I've seen that spelling used in books and such that otherwise use American spellings. |
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Cheep-cheep Level: 32 Posts: 63/180 EXP: 191400 Next: 15042 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 5970 days Last view: 5963 days |
yeah, I've noticed that too. I just assumed it was more of a British thing because of some of the people I talk to online... the Brits all use grey, and pretty much no one else on my list does. |
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 The Guardian Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Level: 124 Posts: 138/4196 EXP: 21543276 Next: 293325 Since: 02-19-07 From: Ithaca, NY, US Last post: 477 days Last view: 90 days |
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 Dry Bones Level: 55 Posts: 266/627 EXP: 1244361 Next: 69828 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 5526 days Last view: 5272 days |
Posted by blackhole89 add  and you've got me  ____________________ |
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 Beezo Level: 49 Posts: 73/480 EXP: 831882 Next: 52001 Since: 03-15-07 Last post: 5774 days Last view: 5639 days |
My posts tend to either be short and to the point, or sometimes, they get overly long and sprawl out over a huge space. I tend to type first, and separate text later, if I make a long post, I need to, otherwise it's just one huge block of text, and no one wants to read that. Smilies I'll use if I feel like it, and if the conversation fits it, I'd almost never use a smily in the debate forum, for example, they just don't fit there. As for spellings, I use American spellings, and "gray" and "grey" are interchangable to me, so I could use either. Also, as you see, I kinda abuse the comma a bit. ____________________ There are things I want to put here. Like a cool picture, my 8-bit theatre character test result, my MS and RO characters... But it's 12 AM, and I'm sleepy. |
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Level: 65 Posts: 599/945 EXP: 2302521 Next: 33107 Since: 02-19-07 From: Texas Last post: 6037 days Last view: 5548 days |
My posting style is having the habit of adding smilies to almost every post.  and  are the most common followed by . All the other smilies I use occasionally. |
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 Porcupo Level: 41 Posts: 187/317 EXP: 445997 Next: 34148 Since: 03-29-07 From: Somewhere far, far away. Last post: 6068 days Last view: 5253 days |
I use them all!!!...
...Just not all the time
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Happy Hour! Level: 81 Posts: 663/1556 EXP: 4851651 Next: 141198 Since: 03-25-07 Last post: 2682 days Last view: 2680 days |
My posting style tends to be quite intellectual and error free. Every now and then I might toss a smiley in if I am thinking the smiley in real life. I often use "" whenever I mention something shifty, like "procuring".
My posts are rarely ever long but if they are, I tend to go offtopic. Not out of lack of grammar mind you, but a lack of patience and fun. This might be the longest you ever see my posts get so be prepared. Of course I have been none to type longer ones than this. So there you go, this is my posting style. ____________________ 
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 Flurry Level: 37 Posts: 38/262 EXP: 336123 Next: 2130 Since: 02-19-07 From: Japan Last post: 4480 days Last view: 2882 days |
I tend to break my post up with a lot of paragraphs/linebreaks, too. I'm always very particular about my punctuation and spelling; I use semi-colons a lot
I use smilies a lot, too, I suppose But I prefer to say 'heh'
I like to omit '.' at the end of the last sentence in a paragraph/line, and between the end of a sentence and a smiley. Spelling, uh, 100% British Nothing annoys me more than when people don't leave a space after a punctuation mark  |
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Cheep-cheep Level: 32 Posts: 59/189 EXP: 205938 Next: 504 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6007 days Last view: 5999 days |
My style tends to see random. As for spelling, I just whatever looks better.
I used to use the smilie alot, but now I just use
I also use the metric system. |
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 Boo Level: 68 Posts: 429/1036 EXP: 2642836 Next: 85964 Since: 02-19-07 From: It is a mystery. Last post: 5728 days Last view: 5728 days |
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Porcupo Level: 40 Posts: 218/305 EXP: 422185 Next: 19124 Since: 02-19-07 From: Temple of Time Last post: 6123 days Last view: 6123 days |
I'm a bit like Thex in my own way perhaps. My posts come out as if they'd be something I'm actually saying.
Heck, I even throw out "like, yadda yadda" sometimes, I don't always see others doing this. With the "like".
And yeah, I'm with those who tend to use , , ,  , and sometimes . Though I randomly like to throw out =P, =O and =D also.
And well my posts tend to be shorter thesedays, then compared to my posting years ago or so. Obviously I spread stuff out a lot too sometimes. |
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 Buzzy Beetle Level: 44 Posts: 228/389 EXP: 608106 Next: 3179 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6173 days Last view: 5936 days |
I think more people need to adopt my style of posting.
"Notgiveafuckism" |
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 Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 51/126 EXP: 111943 Next: 4216 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5853 days Last view: 5852 days |
I'm an inclusivist who thinks that everyone should not only accept both American and British spellings but all of each English-speaking country's slang as well, and feel free to use whichever one strikes their fancy. I myself probably use the American spellings, but not always. Sometimes I go out of my way to write dates in the American way (4/16/2007) because this was the standard when the US was part of the British Empire!
One UK-centric thing I've picked up is to use single quotes rather that double quotes when typing. The single quote is an unshifted key -- easier to type, right? But then when I moved to Japan and had to deal with the terrible-spawn-of-Satan-and-I'm-not-kidding-you JIS keyboards, for which almost all of the non-alphabet keys are out of position, each of the quotes was equally hard to type -- " is on Shift-2 and ' is on Shift-7. Considered going over to double quotes but ended up sticking with the single ones. Also, I place the commas and period outside the quotes (you might think 'that looks funny', but you shouldn't), where they logically belong, despite stickler English teachers insisting that that's wrong. I prefer metric but do not insist on it for others. And while I have nothing against smilies, forum software that forces the very-frequently-used 8 followed by a parenthesis into a stupid smiley with sunglasses is something that needs to be eradicated from the earth. |
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Spike Dragon Level: 57 Posts: 296/705 EXP: 1483685 Next: 2243 Since: 02-19-07 From: 
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I capitalize everything, and I use   and .
I also tend to double space too frequently. ____________________  |
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Level: 105 Posts: 1331/2846 EXP: 12034015 Next: 228245 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6066 days Last view: 2803 days |
I don't know how to describe my posting style, mostly because it really changes every few posts.
Then again, I'm not good at this in general ____________________ I dealt with it. |
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 Cobrat Level: 56 Posts: 146/672 EXP: 1380689 Next: 17487 Since: 02-19-07 From: Hi Last post: 3473 days Last view: 2705 days |
I never use any smilies, and try to have the best spelling as possible.
I have a spell check implemented on every text field in my computer, so you rarely see any mistakes. (Except capitalizing errors. I'm pretty bad with that...) ____________________ |
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a lot. I use American spellings for everything because I live in America.