Quote: "And even when you shorten a word, like advert., you are supposed to add a period after the shortened word."
Also, you're not suppose to put a full stop (period) in front of a comma like that, it looks silly, like '!?'. Advert is no longer an abbreviation, it is a word - so 'advert.' is a daft way of putting it. It's called language change.
Quote: "You people can't even speak correct english in your text talk,"
'English' has a capital 'E', 'text talk' hardly follows any kind of standardized English. And 'correct' English isn't the right way to put it, 'English' is always changing, try making a 'correct', if anybody spoke 'correct' English, then we'd be speaking in the tongue where Old English was called 'English' or whatever the Old English word for English was.
I'm never usually pedantic on such matters, but you're going around saying 'people can't type correct English' when I can find a few bones to pick myself. So I'm trying to make the point that it's bloody daft to go around picking people up on their English. (and bloody insensitive to dyslexics and people who don't speak English as a first language.)
Quote: "Quote: "To make it short and simple, don't care about all this 'status' jazz. Just be yourself, and live with it."
The only reason you don't believe in the status is that you are a geek yourself and you think people shouldn't have a status that way you are not insulted. In addition, another reason you don't believe in status is that when online posting in a forum, nobody can see your physical body, which is probably full of fat, so people respect you, in which you think the computer is your "sanctuary""
You're making assumptions on posters here, people shouldn't be labeled because in the long run, they are meaningless - when you're out in the real world being a chav, jock, geek, metalhead whatever is only a way of describing yourself, but it's meaningless in the fact in the real world 'who you are' matters as opposed to 'what you are' and that's how to keep decent friends and lead a good life...if you strive to be popular then you're too superficial. Yes advice against bullying is good, nobody likes being judged badly based on their differences. But I'm friends with a vast number of different people, 'pretty' boys, goths, emos, geeks, nerds, anime fans, gamers, trendies, Punks, Metalheads, indies, ravers. The reason I'm friends with them is because they're lovely people and we share common interests and they like me for who I am, yeah it hasn't got me a girlfriend , but you know so what?...what your label is 'is meaningless' in the real world, idiots at school will force you to believe that is by using yours against you, but they do that for a number of reasons, they're superficial in some respects - they don't bother knowing who you are first, thus just only stick to what they call 'cool' so that they can be popular. They grow out of it eventually when they realize the real world has depth. What they think doesn't matter, because when they grow up a bit they might like you, depends who you are really.
"Experience never provides its judgments with true or strict universality; but only (through induction) with assumed and comparative universality." - Immanuel Kant
