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inglor
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 Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:16 pm Post subject: Why OSA is GREAT |
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99% of the folks here don't repeatedly type: teh, wud, cud or other unaccepted abbreviations that make reading a post hard work.
I was on a great Tolkien board but I no longer visit because it is populated by punk lazy writers
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Yavanie
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Location: Texas
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Inglor dear, on retainer for the house of Finarfin? Is Amarie on vacation?
Haven't been around much lately, lot's of RL stuff going on, but this is the only place I hang out 'cause the people here come from diverse backgrounds (geographically, politically, age wise, etc...) and are honest and funny and oh, SO immature at times!!!
Some days this is the only place I can get a laugh to keep me going!! 
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Hathor
Joined: 09 Jun 2003
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Location: Lancashire, England
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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n3tspk shud b baned cuz it totaly hurtz my eyz d00d!
Sorry. I have a bit of a crusade against people who take it upon themselves to totally destory perfectly innocent spellings like that.
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BittenBuggy
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Location: Busy Being the Queen Of Everything.. And Trying to Catch the Yoda-Copter
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Hathor, I cant even pronounce half of that  As an english major.. I do NOT tolerate people spelling like they talk. I would rather they just not talk at all - but that can't be helped.
And yes, Inglor - I stay away from boards like that. So... horray for OSA!
(This has to be OSA-praise week... everybody is sucking up because of the red flashing words on the front.  ) So, project kiss-arse is now finished for the BB 
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Hathor
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I'm a reformed netspeak user. *hangs head in shame* Although I was 13 at the time. 5 years on, I think I can safely say I've changed. It does, genuinely, hurt my brain to try and comprehend most of it, but I am 'fluent' as my little sister's friends think it's terribly amusing to mock me over IM about my usage and capital letters and punctuation. Little tarts.
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Saralitazie
Joined: 17 Apr 2004
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Location: Stamping Property of Litzy the Lush all over Glorfindel.
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I tried netspeak once, when I was 15... only lasted about a day, because it hurts my eyes so much
Just to let ya'll know, this:      is what happens to any loser netspeakers that invade OSA. Me kick der ass, me do. (No, intentional bad grammar doesn't count. Unintentional..well, we can take that up personally )
I like OSA because we can talk about anything, and not get into nasty person bashing and hurt people. I like being around a group of semi-rational adults who know how to consider all sides of an issue without opening a can of whoop-ass on the person who *dared* oppose their POV.
Like kicking Beebs for more story, too. And Mora - well, lets not go there. I mean, look at what she nicknamed me! Litzy the Lush.... 
And Robbie, I officially  to your superior emoticon finding skills.
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BittenBuggy
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Semi-rational?
 I suppose thats better than not being rational at all....
Ah, love you Sara 
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Saralitazie
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Yup, semi-rational. Because if we were totally rational, we wouldn't be here... we'd be being rational, doing useful things to better our lives. 
 Love you too Beebs 
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Viv
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| Yavanie wrote: | | I hang out 'cause the people here come from diverse backgrounds (geographically, politically, age wise, etc...) and are honest and funny and oh, SO immature at times!!! |
Is that just a polite way of saying "dirty-minded"? 
I too dig the lack of netspeak here. And the smut. And the nice people. |
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NancyBrooke
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OSA IS GREAT BECAUSE -
of this wacky forum. I frequently browse Stories of Arda for the writing, active reviewing and supportive community, which I also appreciate here, but they are not as actively wacko as OSA members. I know if I post a question here I can bet on having at least one answer in a matter of hours if not minutes.
Thanks, all you post answerers you!
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SpaceWeavil
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | OSA IS GREAT BECAUSE -
of this wacky forum. I frequently browse Stories of Arda for the writing, active reviewing and supportive community, which I also appreciate here, but they are not as actively wacko as OSA members. I know if I post a question here I can bet on having at least one answer in a matter of hours if not minutes.
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Seconded. I’ve noticed that recently, how quickly people respond to posts. It’s great. What is also much appreciated, from my point of view, is that those replies are generally very intelligent and helpful, even when my question is actually very silly and the answer’s been sitting under my nose in a copy of Unfinished Tales or something all the time. 
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Scribe
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Well as board owner I would lose my freaking mind the minute I see that crappy netspeak on from posts. You have no idea how it makes me want to delete stories when I see summaries written this way. Whenever Do wants to tick me off while we're YIMing she uses Netspeak. 2 is a number. It is not a word to indicated direction or plurals, I can never remember what the proper grammatical description is but you know what I mean. For Pete's sake, does this look like a mobile phone, donations and my personal contributions ensure that we have space to write whole words....
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queenoftheshire
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Yup. I'm a reformed chatspeaker as well...Ugh. If only I could see the posts now...
I'm also a reformed flame. I tended to be quite a little smart ass (hasn't changed much, huh?  ) and just put down people alot. Now that I go back to the old sites every once and a while and look at the people who act just like I did, I just wanna put that little buggers outta their misery!!!
My best friend still uses chat speak and it drives me insane! espeically when she puts 'i' and 'u' and 'ur'.  It makes everything so hard to read.
Lmao! I love OSA because I've finally found the hide-away where all my perverted brothers ans sisters have been hiding! LMAO!
God...I sound like I'm a member of a cult.
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Yavanie
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... but it's a nice cult...
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Ellbee
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I think Open Scrolls is encouraging to writers, tolerant of different views, and very nicely smutty. In other words, it has the best combination of intelligence, lunacy, and perversion that I've found on the internet.
-Ell
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