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Originally Posted by Thomas Anderson
If your bank sent you a statement and it was all in txt language, or you got a formal letter from someone and it was written like that, would you consider it rude? If so, why not a messageboard? Just because it's the Internet doesn't give a person the excuse to be lazy. Yes, you might just suggest I ignore people who do that - but if we always did that and never said anything then the whole board would descend into that crap. I'd rather this forum, which has been a great community through which many of us have made good friends, be presented in a way that would have new visitors think we are nice, intelligent people, and not lazy idiots.
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But it's not just because it's the Internet ... you'd expect a formal email to be written properly as well. But this isn't a formal situation. Its just like how I would adopt different ways of speaking when, for example, attending a job interview, as opposed to when I'm just talking to friends. It's rather like you talking to someone in an informal situation, and them saying to you "I don't like the way you talk, I demand you talk in a formal manner or else I won't talk to you any more". Would you obey them, or would your response be "who the hell are you to tell me how to talk?!"?