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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevelabny" data-source="post: 980565" data-attributes="member: 9298">ooh, im gonna jump in on this one...in casual settings, i dont care how you speak or type as long as i can UNDERSTAND you. i only go back and fix a typo if it changes my meaning. i barely ever capitalize words when i type because its pointless and the shift key just slows down typing. i only use apostrophes if theyre necessary. words like dont and theyre and im dont need apostrophes because there is no other word they can be. but i'll try to remember to put the apostrophe in other words so they dont look ill. this is the main reason that the theyre, their, there thing is annoying, because it breaks the flow of the reader as they try to figure out which one they should be using. just dont type l8r. or sk8r boi. please.and as for speaking, talking "mtv" only annoys me when i get the idea that they dont realise they arent speaking correct english and when its done on a professional phone call. ughi've been told by some that my brooklyn accent makes me sound stupid. although others have told me that because i dont overuse slang and have a passable vocabulary that i sound too smart or too white or too formal or older (when i was still young) i live in nyc, so i can understand most accents, "mtv", actual english, and whatever pompous caribbean official english that NegZ uses. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />when i got dell's technical support guy on the phone i could understand his indian-accented english (as in, dell's late-night service is actually housed in the country of india) better than most of the other people that called him but he couldnt understand my brooklyn accent. go figure.id actually rather have someone speak to me in ny hip-hop than southern polite drawl because two nyers can have the same conversation as two southerners in about half the time.as i once said to our southern gaming comapnion "the please and thank you are implied" i despise people who sound like they just escaped from an episode of strawberry shortcake. (unless of course, theyre singing "im the purple pieman of porcupine peak, a ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta. a ra-ta-ta")ok, this drifted, time to end itsteve</blockquote>

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