Stupid forum lingo that should just die out already

I must remember that one!

mattograph wrote in post #5705235
It's all lighting research.......

I'll bet you pay a lot of attention to the use of the kitty light.

breal101 wrote in post #5705446
I'll bet you pay a lot of attention to the use of the kitty light.

Is that the one with the really long...........snoot?


User is banned on these forums......

Phil Light wrote in post #5702562
...I can't stand it when someone refers to the 24-70 f/2.8 L as the "brick." For some reason that drives me up a wall! "Just pulled the trigger on my brick," "Brown just arrived with my brick."

Makes me wish I was in close proximity to them with a friggin brick.

Well, having the 24-70
Hmm.. put the 24-70 in one hand, a brick in the other and.. Actually, the 24-70 seems lighter than the 85 f/1.2, Now that’s a brick.

The Celtics are getting PWN3D at this very moment.

Did anyone mention

+1?

Cause, if they didn't, I am.

And if they did, well........

+1!

mattograph wrote in post #5703060
Actually, I always thought the movie definition was quite specific...:p

It has become more universal a term, but it's roots are 100% Porn industry.

AngryCorgi wrote in post #5712435
The Celtics are getting PWN3D at this very moment.

Good thing you added that. Otherwise, you could be accused of premature evaluation .

runninmann wrote in post #5714932
Good thing you added that. Otherwise, you could be accused of premature evaluation .

No doubt! Is there any internet jargon that's irritating to the OP for "choked"?

I don't like either team, but I thought the level of butt-kicking going on at that point was way too one-sided --- then the Lakers started sucking and evened the playing field.

gjl711 wrote in post #5530074
Well, it sort of does in my house as well. At least that what happens when I do. Everyone runs from the room pretty fast.

lol now thats a good one!

20droger wrote in post #5529050
I agree, but that is not proper American English usage, and I am an American who writes for a living.

Periods (full stops) and commas go inside the quotes, colons and semicolons go outside the quotes, and question marks and exclamation points go inside the quotes if a part of the quoted material and outside the quotes if not.

There is only one case in American English where periods or commas go outside the quotes, and that is when what is quoted is to be taken as specific characters, not as a word.

Also, in American English, we use double quotes as the basic quote form, with single quotes as internal quotes, alternating accordingly. I believe you Brits do the reverse in formal writing.

Of course, the majority of the posters in these forums don't use and wouldn't recognize proper English, be it American, British, or other dialect. The whole thing is therefore rather moot.

I'm just grateful when they make some attempt to use English at all. When they don't, I simply ignore them, even if I understand what they are asking and know the answer to their questions.

I don't do texting.

O.K., so this is ancient, but I love it!!!!! I'm German, by the way, and much annoyed by lense, aperatures, tommorrow and the likes. The confusion of your/you're, its/it's, plural-s with apostrophe..........

My wife has her Masters degree in English and is a pro prof reader so I think I have heard / saw everything wrong with spelling / writing but, we have to remember, the internet has it's own lingo now.. pwned? Gr8? c u ? idk? it's like, forget french, Italian and Spanish classes, we need to take internet / texting classes in school now.

I vote for the word "lingo."

Sounds like a character from a bad Asian-made Western.

zacker wrote in post #7124029
My wife has her Masters degree in English and is a pro prof reader so I think I have heard / saw everything wrong with spelling / writing but, we have to remember, the internet has it's own lingo now.. pwned? Gr8? c u ? idk? it's like, forget french, Italian and Spanish classes, we need to take internet / texting classes in school now.

Obviously not contagious.

Duncs wrote in post #5531285
In that case I appologise

Who ever said we speak the same language?

Actually you were both correct, in Britain (which is where he was reading it) the full stop should have been after the quotes... In America (where you wrote it) it goes before