Why do forums make people talk smart?

when i first game here i typed how i spoke, geordyish, and as such the grammer nazis got me, and tbh most users, it doesnt take that much more effot to type normally, gord and dingle sometimes have to put up with my txt talk on msn, but on ocuk i now make an effot

i could always go back to my old ways though :p

/ i realise this thread is about talking clever but i thought the above post was sort of related
 
Hedge said:
Its not alien, just not always necessary. Its just something ive noticed. Im not clever enough with words like you guys so i cant explain myself. lol
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Would it not be fair to say then that the problem is your inferiority complex rather than others superiority complex?
 
[TW]Fox said:
Would it not be fair to say then that the problem is your inferiority complex rather than others superiority complex?
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You tell me.

i dont know what you are talking about.
 
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I must say that out of the few forums I use this is the easiest to understand but whenever I see a grammar correcting post it makes me think of Josephine Anwhistle (Lemony Snicket).

It also makes a pleasant change that we don't have to use any "sentance enhancers" on here.
 
I am failing to understand how you could construe a higher level of lexical dexterity as being offensive. I agree that unnecessary circumlocution should be avoided in favour of concise diction but a wide vocabulary should be encouraged, not looked down upon.
 
Hedge said:
Its not alien, just not always necessary. Its just something ive noticed. Im not clever enough with words like you guys so i cant explain myself. lol
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In that case I think you've just answered your own question. Forums require you to use a wider vocabulary to express yourself and for others to understand you. It's not about trying to be "clever". Even you would have to admit that a post made up of abbreviations and single-syllable words is harder to understand than something which is written more like an essay.
 
Yo, what-up homie, hows it hangin'

ye check this **** man, totaly off the hook!

:p

I think higher of people who can be bothered to type/speeeeel properly. :)
 
Ok ok :P

Maybe its just the way the words are used that gets to me. I read lots of stuff where people correct eachother for no reason other than to make the person look stupid.

I guess that was what annoys me, not the use of good words in general.

:)
 
Internet forums are an archetypal example of dialog perhaps born more from a construction of social contraposition of discourse, rather than a quintessentially more veracious representation of more traditional colloquial vernacular.
 
Seems to me its your own lack of vocabulary that annoys you, and there's a very easy answer to that :)
 
I speak the way I type, which sometimes means I can throw in some extremely large and complex words or other times just speak very casually. Just as in life its dependant on the conversation topic and who I am speaking with. Its not a way to feel more adequate than others in some form because a bit of bed time reading can help anyone with that sort of thing.
 
I find that SC is full of this sort of things, as I have seen arguments in there deteriorate into grammar nazi'ism, I can see that a lot of people put time in to their posts but some take the quality of other peoples posts quite petty and pick at them or refuse to read them, an example of this was the other day when Tru refused to read/help someone untill he had re-wrote his post with paragraphs.

I wasn't sure if this was in gest as Tru has a habbit of doing that, but its just one of the example of this sort of thing.

So in general I do not find the words people on here over complicated I find the reasons some people use them to overcomplicate things as silly to some extent.

KaHn
 
I badly need to improve my vocabulary, when speaking to people I often feel like im using words too often, or I can remember when I explained something pretty much the same way with the same words but in a completly different situation.

Its almost like im in a tacky RPG game with only a set amount of replys available for every scenario :p
 
I actually do type the way I speak in "real life", although I also get annoyed by the wanna be interlects. If you were that clever you wouldnt be spending your life chatting on this forum
 
Ugh. Well that would be grammAr not vocabulary. I only care about grammAr in my writing if its for a professional reason, such as work for college. My grammAr may be bad, but it's my lack of vocabulary that hinders me from putting things across the way I would like to.

/:That was a bad case of spelling how I speak.
 
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cyborg said:
Ugh. Well that would be grammer not vocabulary. I only care about grammer in my writing if its for a professional reason, such as work for college. My grammer may be bad, but it's my lack of vocabulary that hinders me from putting things across the way I would like to.
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Not only is your grammer (sic) bad, but so is your spellong :p
 
Hedge said:
On this forum a lot of the time i see people using words they wouldnt normally use in normal conversation. They use these words to give them some sort of sense of superiority (ooh, thats a word i dont use in the pub).

...If my mates in the pub started pulling fancy words i would just laugh at them.
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Maybe the real question here is, why do pubs make people talk thick?

^tongue in cheek, but you get the gist of what I mean I hope.

Essentially I think that amongst many social circles public displays of intelligence/education/'geekiness' etc are somewhat frowned upon and have a stigma attached. On the internet people are much less worried about what people think of them.

Aside from what I post in Sports Arena, I'd say at least 50% of what I say in these forums I don't say to people in person.
 
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