08.19.08

Do’s and DOS?

Posted in language misuse, punctuation, spelling, typographical errors, verbal stupidity at 12:01 pm by Bill Brohaugh

Excuse me while I crawl into Jonathan Swiftian “infusion of Enthusiastick jargon” depression mode. Here’s a brief quote from an online chat I was privvy to recently. Among the noncapitalization, the elipses longer than the Panama Canal, the fact that someone thinks Deep Space Nine is entertaining, and the misspelling, note the irony of the quickly following self-correction (which was apparently the subject of some thought) contrasted with the beginning of the original post.

DisguisedName: lol im watching the funniest episode of deep space 9 ever lol…………..ferengi thinking they are commandoes
DisguisedName: commando’s

1 Comment »

  1. JohnnyB said,

    August 19, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    Oh, the sweet, sweet, guilty pleasure of wiling away a summer afternoon in the Deep Space Nine chat room with DisguisedName………………who is, by the way, going commandoe.

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