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people who , write like this , make me want to ,. commit war crimes;;;
YOU FORGOT……THE ALMIGHTY ALLCAP’S…..THE ULTIMATE….😀😀😀 CRIMES MUST OF….BE ACOMBLISHED….EXTRA APOSTROPHE’S!!! 😀😀😀
And don’t forget the smileys, misspellings, ellipses and “Have a nice day, libtard😀😀😀”.
(Ugh. I got irritated just writing that much in mockery)
caps lock is CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!!!! 😀😀😀
see this doesn't actually make me as uncomfortable because it's just.. obnoxious
it's not incomprehensible, i get why people would write like that
Boomertyping
Or hostile LLM.
Hello, Mr, Shatner
Edit : Oh , I misunderstood ,. You meant the constant ;;; spaces and, shit .. not the , Shatner sprach .
like, i get not being good at using punctuation so you just end up typing massive run on sentences or, like, constantly using, commas.. or overusing the.. uh.. what´s it called.. ellipsis..
but holy shit HOW HOW HOW do these people end up thinking THIS , makes any ,, sort of sense,,,;;;,,,;;;;;,:;.;.,:;.;:;.,:;:;:;:-----_'-'--¨'̈́̈́̈́̈́'̈́̈́̈́̈́̈́̈́̈́̈́̈́̈́̈́̈́....:::.:....:::.
in what fucking country, what fucking culture, is this shit actually seen as normal? the most i've seen being used as standard is like, french putting a space before question marks for some reason, and chinese or whatever sometimes using some slightly funky punctuation, but i've never found a culture that genuinely treats this shit;;; as normal
like.. do people not read things? how the fuck does one end up thinking no one is going to find that punctuation usage strange?
Cripes. There's a guy on one of the old forums I frequent (yes, really) who does the ellipsis thing.
he writes literally everything all in lower case... with every thought punctuated with nothing but an ellipsis... even if hes asking a question... you know... youd think its a bit but hes been doing it consistently for years... i have to wonder if he actually writes all this work emails and professional correspondence like this too... like if he actually writes something out on paper with a pencil does he end every line with...
Anyway, lots of dumbasses in our country have been failed by our dumbass education system, which was ruined by other dumbasses. It's infuriating.
i think what makes it so unnerving to me is that i don't see it just being caused by a lack of education, because if you can write then surely you can also read, and thus surely you can read normal text which exists everywhere and can't be missed
the kind of bad writing that lack of education causes is more just bad grammar and boneappleteas (writing unknown phrases as the closest matching words you do know, so "bon appetit" turns into "bone apple tea"), with maybe some sloppy punctuation usage but not outright
Such a thing is a "malapropism," which is now your word of the day.
still better than. people who think the period. is the only punctuation one needs to know.
I'd much rather people write stilted sentences than comma splices everywhere.