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John Byrne
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| Posted: 11 August 2006 at 11:28am | IP Logged | 1
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Can we please, please, please get off these passive-aggressive posts that start with variants on "Am I the only one..." or "I'm sure I'm in the minority here..."? They really make my skin crawl.
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Brian O'Neill
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| Posted: 11 August 2006 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | 2
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I agree..and I am very nearly unanimous in that!;-)
Speaking of pet peeves at the beginning of sentences, when did this 'trend' of beginning posts with the word 'So' begin? ('So, JB has had enough of the 'Am I the only one? posts...')
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 11 August 2006 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | 3
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Ah, yes! That one! Also seen in "So what you're saying is. . ." followed by nothing whatsoever to do with what the poster in question was actually saying.
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Marcus Hiltz
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| Posted: 11 August 2006 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | 4
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I'd like to see of the last of corrective responses that start, "Uh...I'm afraid you're mistaken..." or "Um...that is not how it happened..."
Not sure why that bothers me but it does!
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Gary Hart
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I agree...I think people should just...speak their minds. And let the chips fall.
With the "Am I the only one..." intro's, it's like making an apology before you even begin, playing it just too safe....
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Chris Durnell
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| Posted: 11 August 2006 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | 6
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People are simply trying to be polite. Most of us are not used to writing extensively, and therefore we clutter our posts. I am surprised at how much I rewrite and eliminate when I take care to edit even my small posts. I eliminate 1 line of every 3.
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Chuck Dixon
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| Posted: 11 August 2006 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | 7
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Excuse me for being such a frightful excreseance but...
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Bob Simko
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| Posted: 12 August 2006 at 1:55am | IP Logged | 8
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Chris...No.
Chuck...Yes.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 12 August 2006 at 6:19am | IP Logged | 9
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People are simply trying to be polite.
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I doubt it.
One of the odder things the internet has done is create a kind of "cult of mini-celebrity", where everybody -- even old comicbook hasbeens -- thinks they have opinions that are worth broadcasting to the world. Wrap this in the kind of affected ennui we also find in cyberspace, and you get "Am I the only one...?"Consider the number of times this phrase is slung in front of a subject in which it is highly unlikely that the poster is "the only one" -- "Am I the only one who's using a computer to access this Forum...?" -- and it all becomes part of a preprogramed set of ticks and mannerisms that are very much the opposite of communication.
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Dave Carr
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| Posted: 12 August 2006 at 7:03am | IP Logged | 10
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Response posts consisting of nothing but:
"Sigh"
also communicate that "cult of mini-celebrity"/cyberspace ennui. It's shorthand for "Am I the only one tired of this?".
I'm guilty of it. I'll try to cut back.
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Jay Matthews
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I'll throw down one that's closer to home: I don't like the mocking label of something as "kewl." As in "but that wouldn't be kewl, don't you know," used sarcastically to mock someone who really would think that way.
Such "in jokes" are used as harmless shorthand, but after repetition become the same kind of jaded mockery that they are trying to mock. Sometimes I think we pile irony upon ironies, when we would be better off just sayiing directly what we think and why we think it.
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Jason Fulton
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I'll jump on the wagon and ask that people please stop posting a 5 inch block of text (that's on the same page!) just so they can say "Yeah, me too!"
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