Suggestion for maps forum
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Re: Suggestion for maps forum
Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 28th at 2:23pm 2004


? posted by Leperous

Hrm, methinks something needs to make our written language a bit better (i.e. in a non-pretentious/long winded manner and/or in an Orphish way) at describing meaning, sarcasm, tone etc.

very funny lep

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Re: Suggestion for maps forum
Posted by Gollum on Wed Jan 28th at 2:47pm 2004


Our written language is perfectly adequate for that task. It's just easier in conversation, and generally people write on forums as though they were conversing.



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Re: Suggestion for maps forum
Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 28th at 2:59pm 2004


? posted by Gollum
Our written language is perfectly adequate for that task. It's just easier in conversation, and generally people write on forums as though they were conversing.

you know, i have had my wife read some of my posts that have gotten me into hot water here and she understood what i said, with almost no explanation at all, other that to update here on what the topic was about.

i think the inflections that are missing cause some of the problem, but mainly i think its a manner of how we think, according to where we live, i am not just talking about the US and the UK, i am talking also of the deep south vs. the north east, we all think, actually process words differently.

also i think facial expressions, or the lack thereof, cause many communication issues.

most of all, i think the reason we argue most is, people always assume ill intent first (the ones participating in the argument) when they should always assume its a breakdown in communication.

my first question i ask myself when i read something that irks me is "did i just read that, the way he/she wrote it?"

i cannot count 5 times in 5 years i started a fight, its usually always the other way around, and invariably, its because the other side failed to comprehend.

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Re: Suggestion for maps forum
Posted by Leperous on Wed Jan 28th at 3:55pm 2004


Aaaanyways... got some spare time so working on some 'heavy' forum enhancements, think new themes which also include different forum layout and extra functionality in general



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Re: Suggestion for maps forum
Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 28th at 4:12pm 2004


? posted by Leperous
Aaaanyways...

refer to above post for definition..

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Re: Suggestion for maps forum
Posted by scary_jeff on Wed Jan 28th at 5:11pm 2004


I would have thought that the fact that I was talking about Lep selling email addresses automatically turned my post into a joke, as Lep would not even consider doing this.

I write this as jeff and being of sound mind




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Re: Suggestion for maps forum
Posted by Orpheus on Thu Jan 29th at 8:34am 2004


? posted by scary_jeff
I would have thought that the fact that I was talking about Lep selling email addresses automatically turned my post into a joke, as Lep would not even consider doing this.

I write this as jeff and being of sound mind

at least, no less sound that it was when you joined snarkpit eh jeffery

/runs

on a side note, i would like to say, that snarkpit hasn't run/loaded this slowly in a VERY long time, i sure hope its sorted soon, cause this is rather annoying

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Re: Suggestion for maps forum
Posted by asterix_vader on Sun Feb 1st at 6:16pm 2004


? posted by Orpheus
? posted by Cassius
? posted by asterix_vader
but... Orpheus? you're back??..... why?

Why not?

remember Cass, his grasp of the English language is patchy.

Asterix, i came back because i couldn't be away, as bad as it gets around here, its better than the alternative.

welcome back, then !!

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