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Here are some rules for appearing intelligent online I came up with:

1. How smart you appear is inversely proportional to how many exclaimation marks you use. The fewer, the better.

2. Try to avoid common grammatical errors--their/they're/there, and so on. You appear far smarter if your grammar is close to correct, but just strange enough that no one will dare question your English skills.

3. Sadly, all caps was scientifically proven to be worthless at hiding a lack of content.

4. Believe it or not, words are not spelled with numbers.

Does anyone have anything to add?

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Spell out the words. Internet abbreviations like 'u' for 'you' and 'plz' for please make one seem either very lazy or very uneducated.

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If anyone can make sense of this, could you please translate?

It would seem to be a primitive AOLiuus Internetus Sapien! Wait...this is a Homo Sapien raised by a tribe of the crude Internet people. Perhaps I can teach him English...or at least get him to stop attacking people with free CDs.

ur jsut jelos that i kann h4x0r ur accnt...g-d whart a nw00b.


Remember proper grammar and appropriate capitalization, as well as paragraph when creating a big post.

Don't force yourself to use big words. People can tell.

If anyone can make sense of this, could you please translate?


LOL, i said.

DUED U R SO RITE!!!!!!!!! ROFL OMG, U TOTALY PWNZ MY PANTZ, YA SEXY GOMEZER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AOL R0X.

Heyyy!!! Thanx For The Info It Was Great!!! Very Helpful M8!!!!!!!!! So Their!!

Remember, there are only three periods in an ellipses...

Wear glasses... ? :D

Remember, there are only three periods in an ellipses...

...unless you're ending a sentence....

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Translation (just a guess):

Dude, you are so right!!!!!!!!! ROFL OMG, you totally pwn my pants, ya sexy (something)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AOL rocks

Remember, there are only three periods in an ellipses...
Remember, ellipses is plural for ellipsis, as parentheses is plural for parenthesis.

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Thank you, MuhOre, for proving my point. ;)

...unless you're ending a sentence....
Pray tell, why would one end a sentance with an ellipsis?

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:p

`/0|_| [)0|\|'+ |<|\|0\x/ @|\|`/ |33+ 1 |*\x/|\| `/0|_| |\|00|}

You dont know any leet I PWN you noob

Eye roll and gun smileys are usually my indicator that I'm dealing with the less than swift.

Eye roll and gun smileys are usually my indicator that I'm dealing with the less than swift.
Cannot think of a name ----> :eek: :sniper: :sniper: :sniper: :mp5: :mp5: :gundge: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Pray tell, why would one end a sentance with an ellipsis?

One might end a sentence with an ellipsis to denote trailing off dialogue or a thought which is either very obvious or obvious and offensive.


Well, you know how THOSE people are....

Cannot think of a name ----> :eek: :sniper: :sniper: :sniper: :mp5: :mp5: :gundge: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Saw that coming...

One might end a sentence with an ellipsis to denote trailing off dialogue or a thought which is either very obvious or obvious and offensive.


Well, you know how THOSE people are....
But placing a period (denoting end of sentence) at the end of an ellipsis (unfinished thought) would defeat the purpose of an ellipsis, wouldn't it?

But placing a period (denoting end of sentence) at the end of an ellipsis (unfinished thought) would defeat the purpose of an ellipsis, wouldn't it?
What if the period comes before it?

What if the period comes before it?
...Does it really even matter?

The ellipsis is most often used in the middle of a sentence to show that some of the words have been left out.

When it is at the end of the sentence, the final period is added.

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/ellipsis.htm <--Far more than you probably ever wanted to know about the ellipsis. ;)

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:p
C'mon. Binary is hard enough to read without your typos.

Spell out the words. Internet abbreviations like 'u' for 'you' and 'plz' for please make one seem either very lazy or very uneducated.
I don't know about uneducated, but I personally despise the use of: LOL, ROLFL, IMO, etc, etc, etc.

I prefer *actions* typed out and made more interesting...things like *wanders off to see where Elvis has got to*

...Does it really even matter?

*jabs CSW with the Grammar Nazi Electric Shock Prod*
Of course it matters!

;)

*jabs CSW with the Grammar Nazi Electric Shock Prod*
Of course it matters!

;)
:(
Sorries sir.

*hangs head in shame and walks out of thread*

Remember, there are only three periods in an ellipses...
I have to admit, I heavily overuse and abuse the ellipses............I use them all the time, and it's starting to get annoying.......even to me......

:(
Sorries sir.

*hangs head in shame and walks out of thread*

*hugs CSW*
No worries, I was kidding (mostly).
And I be's a she. :)

*hugs CSW*
No worries, I was kidding (mostly).
And I be's a she. :)
Sorry ma'am doesn't have the same childish effect to it.

C'mon. Binary is hard enough to read without your typos.
Typos?
I used this website:
http://www.networkofminds.com/networkofminds/binary.cfm
Because I'm really too lazy to do all that by hand.

Is that website's script messed up or something?
:confused:

I have to admit, I heavily overuse and abuse the ellipses............I use them all the time, and it's starting to get annoying.......even to me......
I too am an abuser of the ellipses.......I use length to imply longer 'ackward silences'.

Editors stop reading now: In scripts I'll do this-..., which drives editors nuts, including initially my collaborator. But actors know what I mean, so I keep doing it.

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:p00110001 00110011 00110011 00110111 00100000 01110000 01110111 01101110 01110011 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101110 00110000 00110000 01100010

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If you guys keep this up one of you is going to have to give me your lunch money...

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you don't know any leet 1 pwn you noob

leet is dumb in my opinion... except when you're trying to code a message. but i just do that by writing them backwards in french. of course, not too many of my friends know french, so maybe leet is useful after all...

Typos?
I used this website:
http://www.networkofminds.com/networkofminds/binary.cfm
Because I'm really too lazy to do all that by hand.

Is that website's script messed up or something?
:confused:
You missed an S in ASCII, and I have no idea what "qssw" was supposed to be, but it's where I would have put "leet".

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Yeah, no.

You missed an S in ASCII, and I have no idea what "qssw" was supposed to be, but it's where I would have put "leet".
It was supposed to say 1337. Obviously it didn't, though.

Huh, after looking at an ASCII chart, it appears that every single text-to-ASCII translator that I have been able to find doesn't do numbers correctly for me. Damn.

But i use ellipsises all the time! Have i been doing bad?

..

Hmm "..." I use too many of those....

0|\/|6880,|-|4><!!!!!!1111 1337 15 73|-| |\/|057 |21|)1(|_|10|_|5 |\|00008 71|\|6 1|\| 7|-|3 VV|_|1|)!!!!!!!1111110|\|3

Aprostraphes are your friends, as are full stops, commas and colons/semi-colons. *Has PA thoughts*
When in doubt - bold.

ASCII art doesn't always work and can cause epileptic fits.

Just looked at the last page and wanted to dig up a really old thread for fun.
WWJD
Amen.

my son assures me that i will never be taken seriously until i use capital letters and punctuation

so far hes right

*snip*

0|\/|6880,|-|4><!!!!!!1111 1337 15 73|-| |\/|057 |21|)1(|_|10|_|5 |\|00008 71|\|6 1|\| 7|-|3 VV|_|1|)!!!!!!!1111110|\|3

*snip*

0100000101101101011001010110111000100000011101000110111100100000011101000110100001100001011101000010 0001

0110100001110100011101000111000000111010001011110010111101101110011010010110001101101011011000110110 1001011100110110101101100101001011100110001101101111011011010010111101110100011011110110111101101100 011100110010111101100010011010010110111001100001011100100111100100101110011100000110100001110000 (http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php)

How exactly does one look smart? Does one observe intelligently?

If that is what it takes, then you have no choice.

If one is endeavoring to appear perspicacious, it would be a surpassingly excellent intellection to eschew obfuscating dialogue as it does lead to an outstanding impression that the orator oftentimes engages in auto-eroticism.

The certitude that engaging in an exhibition of exorbitant verbosity will prevail to one favourably subjugating those that express a disparate conjecture is counterfactual.

...

I think I managed to confuse myself writing that.

Here are some rules for appearing intelligent online I came up with:

1. How smart you appear is inversely proportional to how many exclaimation marks you use. The fewer, the better.

2. Try to avoid common grammatical errors--their/they're/there, and so on. You appear far smarter if your grammar is close to correct, but just strange enough that no one will dare question your English skills.

3. Sadly, all caps was scientifically proven to be worthless at hiding a lack of content.

4. Believe it or not, words are not spelled with numbers.

Does anyone have anything to add?

All depends what the person is saying as to how I take grammer into account. A simple grammatical error isn't going to make me think they're not smart. Maybe grammer just isn't their thing. And I'd never ridicule someone for their grammer or punctuation.

Here are some rules for appearing intelligent online I came up with:

1. How smart you appear is inversely proportional to how many exclaimation marks you use. The fewer, the better.

2. Try to avoid common grammatical errors--their/they're/there, and so on. You appear far smarter if your grammar is close to correct, but just strange enough that no one will dare question your English skills.

3. Sadly, all caps was scientifically proven to be worthless at hiding a lack of content.

4. Believe it or not, words are not spelled with numbers.

Does anyone have anything to add?

WHO CARES. ALL UR ROOLS ARE CRAP, THERE SO PEDANTIC, I H8 THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If one is endeavoring to appear perspicacious, it would be a surpassingly excellent intellection to eschew obfuscating dialogue as it does lead to an outstanding impression that the orator oftentimes engages in auto-eroticism.

The certitude that engaging in an exhibition of exorbitant verbosity will prevail to one favourably subjugating those that express a disparate conjecture is counterfactual.

...

I think I managed to confuse myself writing that.

Thank you, Mr. Spock. ;)
Additionally, the fecal matter has impacted against the rotary oscillator.

I have another rule. Don't use double negatives. Or triple negatives. Or quadruple negatives. Or...

I have another rule. Don't use double negatives. Or triple negatives. Or quadruple negatives. Or...

I ain't not gonna not use no double negatives never!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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L.S.
I regret to inform you that:

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Kind regards,
me.

It may not be commonly known, but long ago, people decided on what the acceptable spelling for words would be. They also created a powerful tool: the dictionary. Sadly, the ignorant masses wished to stay that way, and fiercely avoided this book. Centuries later, the people created computers that had a word processing program with a "spellcheck." There are few words that cannot be run through spellcheck to verify their correctness. Thus, there is no excuse to write (sp?) next to a word. Unless, of course, Clippy frightened you so much that you can never use Word again.