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AZPaul:
In communities of correspondence, such as the Web, the major basis for personal impression is one's presentation skills. Proper spelling, syntax, grammar, other mechanics, are the keys to providing that impression.  

As much as we may protest, presentation is more important than what we actually have to say. The message, as wonderful, insightful, meaningful as it may be can be lost in a muddle of sloppy presentation. That's just the way people are.

Clear communication is the responsibility of the sender. There are rules, memes, to this game that are there to facilitate the clear transfer of ideas from sender to receiver. When those rules are violated, even when the meaning of the missive is clear, the impression of sloppiness conveys a lack of care, thus a lack of intellect, on the part of the sender and the reciever is apt to discount the ideas accordingly.

Webspeak is a further evolution (erosion?) of language with new memes for a new medium. Among longtime close associates Webspeak most often will not hinder dialogue since personal impressions have already been set (for better or worse). Even within this context the responsibility to effectively communicate is on the sender and the personal impression by the reciever of the sender is a vital component.

The new memes of Webspeak are still under construction and test as evidenced by this whole thread. Some of the "shortcuts," such as "I" instead of "I" or "you" in place of "you" are meeting resistance as detractores. "BTW" (by the way) and "IMO" (in my opinion) are two that have gained acceptance but only in informal use.

The upshot is that if you want to have good stnading in the comunity and have you'r ideas accepted with value you can't just say good stuff you gotta spell rite, use the write words and poofreed ur work so you look good to!

As alway, verbosely yours,

-P

Numsgil:

--- Quote ---The new memes of Webspeak are still under construction and test as evidenced by this whole thread. Some of the "shortcuts," such as "I" instead of "I" or "you" in place of "you" are meeting resistance as detractores. "BTW" (by the way) and "IMO" (in my opinion) are two that have gained acceptance but only in informal use.
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Clearly capitalization is the defining feature of acceptance or rejection.  Just enough capitalization that it doesn't look like you left caps lock on (even sloppier).

I would even accept you instead of you.  When are you coming to my place, BTW.

But that's still borderline.

Shen:
Well as the famous Net joke goes...

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Personally I think that spelling is only important as a tool to present your ideas clearly. With proper paragraphs, punctuation and capitalisation you can still read a post fairly easily even with the occasional typo, complaing about lower case I's is just taking it to far imo :P

PurpleYouko:
You are right about that   :D

I can read your post perfectly if I just scan it at normal reading speed. However if I slow down and really look at the words it becomes difficult.   B)

MightyPenguin:

--- Quote from: Botsareus,Apr 20 2005, 02:36 PM --- ROFL; "touch me I'm cuddly", you made those yourself MP?
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Nah, I stole them from somewhere. It was PREY or SA or NMA or something like that.

Anyway, I think I've made my stance on grammer and spelling quite clear in the rules thread.

And I've spell-checked sigs when I got bored.[/quote]

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