eBay Positive Feedback

March 24th, 2011

And I quote:

Fast Payment!!! Thanks!!! AAA+++

Why don’t you ever see “Took a while to pay!!! Finally!!! BBBB——–!!!”

I know you want to sound enthusiastic, but 1) you only need one exclamation point per sentence, and 2) you can add as many A’s as you want, but it still represents a grade between 90 and 100.

Sheesh!!!

Who am I talking about?

March 23rd, 2011

The moment they see that you’re not convinced by an argument, they move on to a new one, never acknowledging the difficulty of responding to your argument or conceding the point in any way. You simply can’t have a conversation with someone who doesn’t acknowledge when you’ve made a valid point.

Grammar Terrorism

March 21st, 2011

Posts with mediocre grammar are the power base that enables lolcats. You probably think that the occasional typo or misplaced apostrophe isn’t all that important; but, you’re enabling the radical pidgin posters who use caps lock with abandon and treat vowels, punctuation, and verbs as unimportant, optional parts of the language.