Join the Society of Stoners Against Abbreviators

im have a bit of ocd when it comes to misspellings and punctuation... if i see a red line because of spell check i HAVE to correct it..if i se something misspelles, i HAVE to make fun of it... i usually always spell check my posts, sometimes i miss Shit, but its ok.... if im posting while on my pda, i will abbreviate b/c the keyboard is so small.. if im on the pc ill type all out... Besides the fact that my english is Damn near perfect, and i am an avid reader and self proclaimed geek... but a cool one :D yeah but i decided early on that i was not gonna be another dumb illiterate poor mexican... well im still kinda poor, but thats just cuz i HAVE champagne taste with mixed drink money lol
more than half of my graduating class read at a 5th grade level.. half of em had kids..a few were like 19 goin on 20! some didnt pass the TAAS (now TAKS..) its Texas' version of academic skills standardized tests.. which was a requirement to graduate.. it was so funny, another kid and i had to retake the tests because we did too well and they thought we cheated!! even though, a kid next to me got caught cheating and was allowed to keep taking the test!! up until i started smoking, u couldnt get me to say or type cuz or n e way haha. i actually went online and had to learn this Shit!
OH when people do the folowing:
there, meaning their or they're
weather meaning wether
thru for through
haha theres more, but im too stone to remember - peace - Hilder

Meh 47 |3457 _m057_ p30p|3 d0n'7 74|k |1k3 7h15. 1 7h1nk 1 w1|| fr0m n0w 0n.

I try not to use abbreviations - it bothers the heck out of me. Some are okie dokie, but most just confuse my ass, especially when I'm stoned.

Hell, I'm 50, I have a RIGHT to be confused, LOL....

Oh, let me just edit this post!

Hilder, I just read yours - I have a touch of that OCD as well. Not as bad as Monk on the boob tube, but bad enough, lol... :thumbsup:

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Meh 47 |3457 _m057_ p30p|3 d0n'7 74|k |1k3 7h15. 1 7h1nk 1 w1|| fr0m n0w 0n.

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A really funny thing is I understood every word of that, unlike some of the gibberish on here that is actually written in English.

I used to find abbreviators more annoying than I do now. I still think people are silly to do cell phone text on a full keyboard (U R 2 good 2 B tru--that sort of thing). But for some people, that's their style, just like my style was developed on a full keyboard and as a writer who wrote for a living for many years. So I tend to write like I learned to write--before the days when any sort of electronic text devices ever existed.

I try real hard to give other people's styles a break. I confess I will occasionally pick apart a deeply and abidingly illiterate sort if he slams someone else for stupidity or, as happened on another sub-forum earlier, if someone writes an incomprehensibly illiterate sentence advising someone else to read more. That was irony of the highest order, and it begged to be confronted.

I would hope that most cannabis advocates would have the live-and-let-live mentality about how folks express themselves. If someone attaches a stigma to people who write coherently and clearly like poor Jagarr above, then that's a perception problem on part of the attacher, not the writer. If I attach a stigma to people who abbreviate, then that's my problem and not the abbreviator's. If there's one thing that this place teaches you, it's an appreciation for differences. And an appreciation for the spell-checker we have here. Even when I use it, I still find mistakes in what I wrote later on.

I love "meh," by the way! It sounds just like would look if you could see someone say it in person: curt, disdainful and slightly dismissive. Any word that can convey that in only three letters is alright by me.

i see a snooty frenchman with a thin mustache waving his hand goin meh! and turning up his nose hahaha

i lv abr vm, its fucking awesome , rofl


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