Intelligent people aren't oblivious to how pretentious and cringe-worthy they sound...
Saturday night, ahem, "joke"
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Intelligent people aren't oblivious to how pretentious and cringe-worthy they sound...
Dude you rock, seriously though your posts make me smile. You come across as being quite intelligent for a 16 yr old i take it??. Its refreshing to see someone as young as you take time to make sure that you use the correct grammar and spelling.
I think a lot of these young kids in here could learn a lesson from you in the art of grammar and spelling. Hell even some of us oldies could do with a lesson.
But seriously you rock...keep it up and dont worry about the idiots here who are trying to bring you down.
He doesn't use grammar correctly though, he uses about 5 brackets in every post when a simple comma will suffice most of the time.
If people have no way of acquiring non-academic intelligence (e.g., a personality), they probably won't know that anything besides academic intelligence exists, as if it's the be all and end all.
In your opinion though isnt it??.
Really i cant see why you lot in here are getting so wound up by him, i find his posting style quite amusing and what makes me laugh is seeing you guys in here get wound by his posting style. Geez you would think, judging by peoples comments towards him in here that hes just gone on a mass killing spree.
Seriously lighten up fellas.
His posts aren't supposed to be funny so really you are laughing at him.
Ermm no not really, im laughing at the way he posts as i find it amusing and also the fact that its winding up you guys something proper that you feel the need to attack him for it
. I am not laughing at him as much as you want me to...if anything im laughing at you guys for getting so wound up by his posting style....capiche??.Barring his over-use of brackets i think his posts are put together pretty well tbh.
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Everytime I mention my girlfriend to my uncle he'll recite that line. I think you can guess her name
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What goes in pink and hard but comes out soft and sticky?
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Everytime I mention my girlfriend to my uncle he'll recite that line. I think you can guess her name
Staple a photo of her to his forehead!
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This here is the problem. By being far too verbose, you are in fact making it more likely for people to have a problem understanding you. The sentence in red is a prime example, since I had to read it four times to understand it. Repetition in language kills the brain, that's what tongue twisters are all about!
The problem with the brackets isn't their presence. They can be very useful. It is the fact that they are totally unnecessary in your posts that causes the problems. They do nothing but break up a sentence and make it more of a chore to read. For instance here:
What is wrong with 'I am verbose by nature'? Why do you always choose the more complicated alternative?
Why can't all your posts be that succinct? That was to the point, you didn't add anything that wasn't needed and you didn't put 'it was rather interesting' or 'you quoted' in brackets.
Why? Other posters end their posts with some form of signature too, none of them get slammed.
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Basically, how I type is how I think. The idea is to categorise the post in a way, and thus make it possible (I hope) to read in such a way that one can choose a level of detail. To be perfectly honest however it is merely due to how I think, and thus is exemplified in my posts.
I did that for the aforementioned reason. I think of the words as "I am (by nature) verbose". I could use a comma, but I think of it in this grouped way (separation of the different levels of detail). One could read that as "I am verbose", or "I am, by nature, verbose". This allows the reader to have more or less detail. (But as I have stated before, it is merely how I think [the effects of this on the reader are simply by-products [in a sense]).
That post could be succinct. Other posts cannot be as succinct I find. I simply typed what I was thinking at the time. How hard is that to understand? I really do not see why I should have to answer multiple (in-depth) questions about the intricacies of my posts (especially considering that many have been answered, or talked about before).
Why can people not understand that the reason I post the way I do will not change within the time they can ask the same question again and again?
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Can I just finish this by saying you don't think super-intelligently or come across as superior in your thinking by how you post (like you seem to think), you have Aspergers syndrome and I'm not joking or making personal attacks, it's quite easy to make that assessment.
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If you were (which you might [possibly] be) Psychologically qualified to make that statement, you would also be aware that it would be rather bad to try and form a diagnosis over communication in an Internet forum.
I have never said that I think "super-intelligently"; I think in a logical manner I believe.
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I would bet all my money that Aspergers would be the diagnosis made by a professional, it's not 'rather bad' to make such an assessment if I know all the symptoms of Aspergers syndrome, which you have actually displayed in your posts.
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I must say I believe churned is correct...
...and that's just the written part. I wonder how he talks.Wikipedia said:
come on you're taking the wee wee now.
that is not good grammar and you know it.
See, I drew up several comparisons between him and Evan O'Dorney, if you know who that is, LOL
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It is bad I would say. It would take an in-depth Psychoanalysis to properly diagnose such a condition. Saying "I know all the symptoms" is not good enough if it is backed up with a simple group of Internet forum communications.
I have no Psychological qualifications myself, but I know people who do, and I am sure they would not advise Internet forums coupled with Wikipedia as a good means diagnosing someone.
Why is it important anyway?
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