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I had two lame Lj arguments this week which deal with two topics, spelling things wrong on purpose to be "cute" and fanfic. I ended up confirming that even though there has not been an official precident set, that fanfic is a violation of copyright. Later, I learned that when you write the word "Internet" as in "there are a lot of idiots on the Internet" that you are supposed to capitalize it.
Am I the last person on Earth to learn this?
Why is it a proper noun anyway?
Did someone name it? I wasn't aware that they did.
The first silly conversation started at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
mock_the_stupid where someone said her Dad was stupid for not knowing the difference between Harry Potter and LotR. Here's a hint, one you could fall asleep during and just wake up for the fight scenes; and the other is wicked awesome. *wink* It's a JOKE! Whenever you look at me like that...it's a Joke!!!
This led to a whole discussion about fanfic. My anti-fanfic stance is well known. I would kick the ass of someone who made Sadie a reborn Christian or a vegan; because that's just not who she is. I always say fanfic is masturbation for writers. And I stand by that. It might not all be ridiculous and horrifying...but either way I don't want to know about it. As it happens, several people got all defensive about their right to make Snape hump Hermione or Tom Welling or whatever the hell these kids write about. Like how dare I suggest that fanfic is lame and how flattered they would be if someone stole their characters and posted a bunch of piss-poor shit about them.
I will quantify that by saying that if children are writing fanfic as opposed to writing nothing, then that's cool. Kids (under say, 15) can write whatever the hell they want. Then, it's time to get serious.
Then some girly chick wrote the phrase "CAWSE you know you want to" in a LOST comm. I just couldn't let that go. And it turned into a huge discussion where some jackass went through my comments with a red pen and chastized me for not capitalizing Internet. Of course, not knowing something odd like that (at least, I think it's odd) isn't really the same as misspelling something on purpose and then defending it saying "that's how I say it." I will never understand the way teenagers on the internet hold onto their "right" to present themselves like morons. Are we really at the end of an age where people know how to spell, type and punctuate? Again, I'm not talking about a lack of education or even sheer stupidity. I'm talking about a willful disregard and apathy in public correspondences.
I am aware that plenty of Internet slang exists (I can deal with things like "teh" and "pwned" if I must) and is generally accepted most places. But is it really acceptable to just make up whatever the hell spelling you feel like, not put spaces after a typed period (that's a dot, kids), or a comma, and never use the shift key once?!?
Am I the last person on Earth to learn this?
Why is it a proper noun anyway?
Did someone name it? I wasn't aware that they did.
The first silly conversation started at
mock_the_stupid where someone said her Dad was stupid for not knowing the difference between Harry Potter and LotR. Here's a hint, one you could fall asleep during and just wake up for the fight scenes; and the other is wicked awesome. *wink* It's a JOKE! Whenever you look at me like that...it's a Joke!!! This led to a whole discussion about fanfic. My anti-fanfic stance is well known. I would kick the ass of someone who made Sadie a reborn Christian or a vegan; because that's just not who she is. I always say fanfic is masturbation for writers. And I stand by that. It might not all be ridiculous and horrifying...but either way I don't want to know about it. As it happens, several people got all defensive about their right to make Snape hump Hermione or Tom Welling or whatever the hell these kids write about. Like how dare I suggest that fanfic is lame and how flattered they would be if someone stole their characters and posted a bunch of piss-poor shit about them.
I will quantify that by saying that if children are writing fanfic as opposed to writing nothing, then that's cool. Kids (under say, 15) can write whatever the hell they want. Then, it's time to get serious.
Then some girly chick wrote the phrase "CAWSE you know you want to" in a LOST comm. I just couldn't let that go. And it turned into a huge discussion where some jackass went through my comments with a red pen and chastized me for not capitalizing Internet. Of course, not knowing something odd like that (at least, I think it's odd) isn't really the same as misspelling something on purpose and then defending it saying "that's how I say it." I will never understand the way teenagers on the internet hold onto their "right" to present themselves like morons. Are we really at the end of an age where people know how to spell, type and punctuate? Again, I'm not talking about a lack of education or even sheer stupidity. I'm talking about a willful disregard and apathy in public correspondences.
I am aware that plenty of Internet slang exists (I can deal with things like "teh" and "pwned" if I must) and is generally accepted most places. But is it really acceptable to just make up whatever the hell spelling you feel like, not put spaces after a typed period (that's a dot, kids), or a comma, and never use the shift key once?!?
