Refer to cave drawings for examples of early emoticon and graphics based language.
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
I love to butcher The English language.
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
For fuck's sake ew all need to talk tidy England like i does and stop being fucking silly and daft like init now butt.
Believe it or not, in the area I live, a hell of a lot of people talk like this, I posted a YouTube clip in the funnies called "Taff wars", if you look it up on YouTube and watch a few, it is a piss take out of ourselves (Welsh people). But it is how most people in my area talk to each other, to me it is "normal" to a lot of other people it is very irritating, using the word fuck is very popular and think it might be law to say it every few words, as well as the words like, init and tidy.
please take a look and you will see i am not extracting the urine.
It annoys me when people say "oks" or "okays". You do not need that 's' there!
message from my daughter on iPhone.... "WTF!! lol. ur late ahole!!" then... "sry dad.. my bad.. wrong#".. no way she's from my genes.....
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Can we use smilies and emoticons in story submissions??? That would make it a lot easier. I could probably knock a ten page story down to five, easy.
I have to admit I was never a particularly literate kind of guy. Someone mentioned the word "got"...I used the word "got" in a poem here and caught Hell for it in a public comment. I really didn't realize it was wrong.
Which leads me to the point I am trying to make. I have found over the last several months since I started doing this story writing thingy, that people assume I must be some sort of well-read literary type because I have manged to type out over 40 stories and way too many poems. The fact of the matter is quite different. I told a friend of mine from high school about my hobby after I submitted "Merry Christmas, Baby" in the holiday contest here. He is an English professor at CUNY/SUNY. His reaction was "You wrote this?" He seemed to surprised I was able to write anything. (OK, having him read it was a cheap ploy to get additional votes, but don't tell anyone.)
The point is a lot of people just don't know any better and they should not be discouraged for it. I know looking back at my early work, like "Morning In The Park", it's amazing how far my writing has actually progressed in seven months. I no longer have whole paragraphs of giant run-on sentences in my work, for instance.
I actually edited a story for another member here at Lush after it was rejected. She had spent a lot of time in a Spanish speaking country and her sentence structure and language use were not up to the standards required. I read it and thought it was a nice story, though the editing was more of a project than I expected. The story did extremely well for her and actually put her up on the Top Author list earlier this year.
I think people need to be encouraged in this writing thing. I'd like to think that most people know that what is acceptable in speech and texting is not always acceptable in formal writing, but perhaps they don't. I know of two members on this site who leave very critical public comments on peoples stories regarding things like quotation use and word usage. I don't believe that's the best way. I think it discourages someone from submitting a work when it might be subject to public ridicule. But, I do believe a subtle PM can do wonders. I really do believe most authors here would like to improve their writing skills or else they would not be submitting works here in the first place. Sometimes a little private encouragement is all it takes.
Later,
Alan.
I love everyone's rants! I will toss in "less than" when "fewer than" is correct, "though" when "although" is correct, and the propensity to just launch in email with zero greeting. I'm guilty of that too often. I try to remember to say hello before I launch, but efficiency seems always to be the utmost priority. Sigh.
I will add "hey, you" into the mix... First I am not a horse and Second I was given a name.
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BTW, when I posted my reply...I interpreted the original question as what words, phrases, etc. make you cringe in stories on Lush...but, I guess that was just my interpretation...
General speech would be a whole other thing. Yes, I hate text speak or whatever it's called...I actually saw someone post a poem (not on Lush) that used "ur" for you are...
That is bad...
And who the hell started "waaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzz uuupppppp" ????
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See...I didn't know what ASL meant either...so, if someone says that to me, the correct answer would be...
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Yes, please.
Home waiting...
Thanks Bike!!
A= Depends on how I feel
S= As often as I can
L= Cloud 9 if we do it right.
The word 'hubby', it annoys me terribly when women refer to their husband as 'my hubby' in public. Just one of those things, I know there are worst names that women can call there husbands, but that one just annoys me, it reminds me of an old hairy guy with a pot belly smoking his pipe.qlsoEPCN1XFaGoJR
MMonroe 
Lydia! I'll stop doing that to you.. lmfao
