Dragonius's blog: "Random Blogs"

If you can read and write (in English), then you should be able to use at least semi-proper English. My biggest pet peeve with the internet (mainly bulletins like those found on myspace and l33t sp33k) is that it isn't real English that everyone can understand. I bring this up now after seeing a mum concerning a "bulletin" where only a linguist may be able to read it clearly and without mentally adding in or re-spelling certain words to make sense out of it. I see these kind of bulletins all the time on Myspace and I generally don't bother replying to them. Every so often, I'll find someone online that talks to me like that and I'll explain my pet peeve and they'll stop talking to me or will take the time to properly spell things out. Is this really so difficult to achieve? I've seen people misspelling "cat" on myspace...and these are literate people, I've talked with them quite a bit outside of myspace. How painful can it possibly be to take the extra 2 minutes to type real wordes...

JANUARY 1. Did you have a new year's resolution this year? No 2. Who kissed you at midnight? No one, I was single 3. Does it snow where you live? Sometimes 4. Do you like hot chocolate? Yes 5. Have you ever been to Times Square to watch the ball drop? No FEBRUARY 1. Who was your Valentine? My girlfriend of 1 month 2. When you were little, did you buy valentines for your whole class? yes 3. Do you care if the groundhog sees its shadow or not? nope MARCH 1. Are you Irish? nope 2. Do you wear green on St. Patty's Day? yes 3. What did you do for St. Patty's Day in 2006? threw a party 4. Are you happy when winter is pretty much over? yes APRIL 1. Do you like the rain? yes 2. Did you play an April fool's joke on anyone this year? yes 3. Do you get tons of candy on Easter? nope 4. Do you celebrate 4/20? yes MAY 1. What's your favorite kind of flower? black rose 2. Do you like the spring? yes 3. Finish the phrase "April showers": are colder than May showers 4. What is the first color you think of when you think of Spring? red JUNE 1. What year did/will you graduate from highschool? 2003 2. Did you realize nothing special happens in June? nope JULY 1. What did you do on the Fourth of July? went to a party 2. Did you go on any vacations during this month? nope 3. Do you blast the A/C all day? nope, it was broken AUGUST 1. Did you do anything special at the end of your summer? got married 2. What was your favorite summer memory of '06? getting engaged 3. Do you have a sunburn? nope 4. Do you go to the beach a lot? yes SEPTEMBER 1. Did you attend school/college in '06? yes 2. Who is/was your favorite teacher? Leo 3. Do you like fall better than summer? no OCTOBER- 1. What was your favorite Halloween costume? wife's dress (see my pictures for it) 2. What's your favorite candy? kit-kat bar 3.What did you dress up as last year? a purple pimp NOVEMBER 1. Whose house did you go to for Thanksgiving? my parents' 2. Do you love stuffing? yes 3. What are you thankful for? everything DECEMBER 1. Do you celebrate Christmas? yes 2. If not, what do you celebrate? n/a 3. Have you ever been kissed under mistletoe? yes 4. Get anything special last year? nope 5. What do you want this year? money 6. Do you like cold weather? yes