No shit... Well, if you've ever caught them when they feature a pedal steel player on some songs... that's me. I played in one of their many side bands (whiskeylash allstars) for 2 and a half years at the crystal.

i'd hope so
since we're in the same band.
in case you haven't figured that out.

aha. i'm slow.

yea
we almost type the same too
cept he punctuates

i talk more forrest dweller like

theres not enough threads
complaining about it

Imagine, if you will, a room where we all sat around and talked to each other instead of typing. Same content though. Then imagine a new guy who decides, in the name of individuality, to screech everything he says in a piercing, high-pitched wail. Just to be unique. The content of his messages are fine, but the delivery annoys most everyone in the room. Should he "bow to pressure" and stop annoying people, or should he hold out and keep screaming?

or something to that effect.


-and the correct answer isn't to just leave the room. As I mentioned, the content was welcomed.

Apparently it isn't clear.
Individuality or subversion or irritation isn't the goal.
It's simply cleaner and more concise.
Plus, I think it allows the writer to
intonate or develop a rhythm
without a physical voice.

well put cap'n!

I could try to type a perfect sentence and let you read it (differently than I intended it to be) with the voice inside your head. Unfortunately, it won't be as effective for me and my little bit of content, so I'll have to post twice as long and twice as often. You wouldn't want that either.

or
...
i could try to write
in a fashion
that you're going to read
with my voice

like it is
inside my head

or atleast
something
closer

so i hope we can
get past the language barrier

because im definately
not trying to disrespect
your right to a room
free of high-pitched screams

ive been at this
for well over a year
and i doubt i could stop

and ill warn you
...
it's contageous

sometime next week
we could switch roles
me and all other haiku bitches
will try long-speak

and you could try it out?

actually, for me it's less high-pitched screaming and more of a shatner-esque, awkward dramatic pause kind of verse.

doesn't bother me though.

Nice analogy, but let's take two other analogies:

Same scenario, except instead of a piercing high-pitched wail, he has a speaking disorder (Damien from WHFS comes to mind). I.E. there is nothing he can do about it.

Second scenario -- instead of the high-pitched wail, the person is speaking in ebonics. Perfectly capable of speaking in English, chooses not to.

That latter example is kind of how I view addled-speak, in case I'm not being sufficiently obvious about it. But for all I know, they're just retarded, and I should learn to live with it. (sigh) I'll try...

Me and Bloor talk like we type in real life. Almost all the time. Sure its an affectation, but its funny. If you were to ever have human interaction, you would understand funny.




This is the point. These dudes don't talk like Shatner in real life.

Ebonics sounds retarded in real life, too.

I do have the occasional human interaction. Don't like it.

Sorry, I was in class.


As to Cats and Killer, I totally understand the habit of it. In return, I ask the understanding of reading something. with these wierd. pauses put into it. for no real reason. all the time. Not a deal breaker, not the end of the world, but a steady stream of mild sortof. No biggie.

And I'm down for the swap. It's all about understanding, people.




p.s. - Dusty... those who live in glass houses ought not perhaps lob stones.

Whoa, there, chief.

Back before I made the decision to continue with biology, I did an undergraduate degree in English along with the Biology degree. Linguistics was revelatory. You know, none of us speak perfectly standard English - it's a mutable medium, and dialects, pidgins, slangs, and accents keep things diverse and awesome (IMO).

I dislike the haikuboyz usage mainly because it irritatingly reminds me of past peccadilloes & wanderings through undergraduate poetry classes and coffee house readings of things that should have and have since been burned, but if that's how they feellike they must communicate, more power to them.

i may,
however,
be inclined to
make
fun of their artsy-
fartsy pretences,
but am sure that they
have thick enough
skins (heads?)
to brush it off
&
move on.

GAR speak, though, appeals to me just like going to West Texas and working on my good-ol'-boy accent does, providing entertainment and diversion.

Eh, I don't think I'm really going anywhere with this. We all suck and get peevish about bullshit.

I demand more Mark Clark drunkposts!!!!

I have similar things with my mates, and they're funny when you're speaking, it's just trying to translate them to a written medium doesn't work so well

Course ol' e.e. had a hell of a lot more going on subtext/symbolically in his actual, um, words, than do those who simply break their sentences up willy and yon.

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Just for the record, I is only giving all y'all a hard time -- no personal injury is intended. I can take it like I dish it, but as was pointed out, the difference between humor, givings of hard times, and truly berating don't always translate well to ASCII.

Calling me out on the "subtext" was a particularly good 'zing' -- king o' affectation, I yam!

Actually, I assume Capn' was generous... 75% substance and clarity in about any public event is pretty high. My amusement is the self congratulatory seat-squirming over those silly unfocused lefties.

sprintime
is lovetime
and
viva
sweet love

Y'all had tightly monitored toilet training. Or as they say, the Republican disease... the tight pucker.

It;s called a personality. I can ship one to you.