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I have read many of my previous posts, prior to leaving this board for several months, and I have noticed that the way I write and the way I speak is totally different then it was a year and a half ago. When I read some of my posts I realized that I wrote like I was new to Trek.
Maybe it was my girlfriend or even I really did matured now that I am 18.
I even look at things differently now then I did back then. I look now at why people posts such things and generally ignore useless posts. Where back then I now could tell I took offense at any post directly at me negatively or postively.
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Well, you grammar either hasn't matured, or it's so mature that it's going senile. :-)
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Get thee to a sleazy strip bar. Now.
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Don't you mean a stripclub? Anyway, it's natural that people grow up and you might not notice until someone points it out. That or read stuff you wrote from the past and you'll see a difference.
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There are no grammatical mistakes in my sentence. A typo, yes, but complaining about things that are obviously typos is even beyond me.
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Well, I've been here for a few years. The only thing different about my writing style seems to be that the exhuberance of my youth seems to have swung to the side of extreme cynicism. I shudder as I read some of the things I wrote in the early threads of the Officers' Lounge.
I think the only thing that has really changed is my venturing out of the Officers' Lounge and actually joining into debates. In the past year, I've actually been heavily involved in the more hard and heavy Trek forums. Hell, I even got the nerve to post something of my own creative energy into the Designs and Creativity forum. I participate in the forum contests, and sometimes (albeit rarely) post something in the General Sci-Fi and Star Wars forums. I tend to stay out of the Flameboard, though.
So, other than really where I post, nothing else seems to be much different about my posting style. I just get yelled at a lot more often.
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You know some people gage how smart someone is how they handle their own language. For instance you won't think somone is smart if they talk like if they are half retarted and half drunk but they are not.
However to make a simple mistake as trying to explain that being just 18 explains that I have matured is another.
One simple note: I have noticed that older people point out mistakes and not younger ones. I was on a DBZ board (yes I am a fan of that Anime) and those fans make Trekkies (Trekkers) look like normal people. Through their constant screaming of "Filler Is Evil" and "Freiza is Gay" they will never point out your mistakes. They are between the ages of 13 to 22 years old. I guess its because they know they make mistakes as well. Makes you think what is inside the heads of people who like to point out mistakes, huh?
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Well, then, all you need do is find yourself a Trek board where they don't mind your spelling/grammar/punctuation, and fuck off there sharpish. Try TrekBBS. 8)
Kidding. Speaking as an oldie, I think that we've always been used to having a certain level of proficiency with the English language demonstrated round here. Therefore when we see people who don't write English very well, we usually make a joke of it (because many of the mistakes are often quite funny). Most of the time the perpetrator soon learns we're not being (too) cruel, and often improves over time. Others get in a huff and leave; good riddance.
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I would point out that we're usually harsh at those "mistakes" because we have many members who learned English as a second language and are more proficient then those for whom its their first (and most times, only).
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I don't think using a DBZ board as a comparison is fair. Those places are full of mad, crazy scary people who like to eat live pigs. The only way to escape is to agree that even a word change to a dub instantly renders it worse than Satan's shit while slowly walking backwards. Saying "Kamehameha" in a girls voice also helps.
"Anyway, it's natural that people grow up"
Thank god we've got you around to fill us in on these fascinating biological facts Mickey. Without you I'm sure this place would be full of young men running around screaming "Why do I have hair in new places! And why do I want to rub myself against the TV when bumpy-chest creature appears on it?"
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