Sometimes when I’m confronted with nothing to write about I just pop open the old window and write whatever comes to my mind. I call this Train of Thought blogging. While it is quite possible that this isn’t the best way to write anything, it’s a great way to kill some time and every now and then funny stuff comes to mind while I’m writing.I’ve found that, since I’ve been regularly updating my blog, my writing skills are sharpening. I’m still a crap writer, but at least some basic grammar conventions are coming back to me. My skill with the written language has suffered since I last had to write a school paper. I blame the MSN Instant Messenger. Where else in the world does “ROLF, LMAO. afk brb” make any sense whatsoever. I have a friend who refuses to use punctuation while chatting, so you get messages like “i went over to see mark today and he got this new iron maiden album that was pretty awesome i figured out a couple of songs so now were playing them.” Sadly, he is one of the more coherent people I chat with.
How often have you seen “r u there”. No question mark, no capitals, no words, just a mess that I’m left to decipher. “So were going to there house laterz”. What? No. What? First of all were and we’re are not the same word. They are in fact completely different, for while were is a verb indicating the past tense of are, we’re is a contraction of the words we are. It’s not that hard people. Might I add, there, their, and they’re are called homonyms. They are completely different words that, unfortunately, sound the same. Still, it’s not overly difficult to tell them apart. You’re average third grade student can most likely tell you the difference if you’ve forgotten. There is a magical word that can be used as an adverb, pronoun, adjective, noun, or interjection depending on context. It cannot be used in the place of the popular contraction of they are, they’re. Their is a possessive adjective. They’re all completely different in their many different uses. There, I’m glad we could clear that up. There.
Also ‘z’ and ’s’ are different letters. While they are close to one another on the keyboard, they cannot be swapped at will. ‘Q’ and ‘w’ are also close to one another, but I don’t think qomorroq would get your point across very effectively. And finally, these are numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. These are letters: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, q, y, z. Words can use any number of different combinations of letters. When you decide to add a number into a word, you no longer have a word, but math. For example l0s3r is the three variables ‘l’, ’s’, and ‘r’ and their respective numerical coefficients. As an aside, for any value of ‘l’, ’s’, or ‘r’ that is an element of the Real number set, l0s3r will equal 0. Neat hey!
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