What I really want when I read a forum about books (basically) is to read replies from a bunch of people who are my grandpa and think funny e-mails are funny and supposedly read and yet somehow I am 23 and you type like I did when I was 12.
I will cut some slack to the crazy non-native English speakers on here, but to people who should know better here is some advice: the best way to get your message across to non-idiots is still to use correct English where the words line up and actually spell out a coherent thought. Some of you guys it's like some weird little joke to see who can insert the most unnecessary non-alphabetic characters -- in all - of the ......... stupidest .....!!! possible, ways. I know you are in the habit of typing like mentally deficient Bonobo (which are relatively smart apes that do all of these sex things so I will use as an awkward reference where I will be like "Have you heard about these bonobo monkeys? They have sex with their kids lol! did u get my emale?") but, seriously, typing like you imagine some kid would on the internet does not actually make you seem younger or hipper on the internet, so go develop a more mature writing style where you actually express thoughts in a developed manner, because I never imagined a community of avid readers could spit out such consistently incoherent original text.
Listen, I don't care if you use capital letters or hyphens or whatever, but if you're a native English speaker and you've been reading for 20+ years, you should be able to put one foot after another and use that thing in front of you with all of the letters to actually type out things that don't make my brain literally bend in half. I should actually give you guys more credit since there are some pretty coherent people on here, especially compared to other forums. Still, some of the "worst" posts come from people who have identified themselves as people who should know better and, once again, make me feel like I am reading an e-mail from my grandpa (the forwarded kind with lots of nonsense text and formatting surrounding any actually intelligible content).
Once again, I don't really care if you say things correctly with all of my commas and all that, but if you speak English then just freaking pretend that you are talking and ask yourself how much of an idiot you would look like if the letters you are typing were coming out of your mouth in the order you typed them. If it turns out then you would look like like a
big idiot, then you probably look like a somewhat more moderate idiot to me on here. This is only aimed at people who should know better, so if you have a valid reason for not typing out reasonable stuff, then that's fine. This is about over but if you can read a fancy book then you should at least be able to write things that are about 50% as coherent, right? Some of you are not hitting that mark and I want to see you do better by yourself.
