sunnysideolife 2012-05-15 07:15 pm (UTC) This thread is being watched. Any further mentions of you sound____ will be deleted, and I don't care if you are just saying you sound tired out of deep concern for your fellow f_fa posters.
If you haven't seen Thor, it's a "motion picture" in which a Swap Shop-era Noel Edmonds wanders around claiming to be a Norse god and waving a hammer. He also kisses Natalie Portman on the hand. He's a dick. The film cost $150m to make and is less entertaining than an episode of To Build Or Not To Build. The last 20 minutes consist entirely of shouting and lights and made me feel so infinitely tired, my mind left my body and manifested itself as a small clear crystal floating beyond space and time. Unless I dreamt that bit. It is the worst film that has ever co-starred Anthony Hopkins and Stellan Skarsgård, unless they've teamed up to make Vileda Supermop: the Movie while I was sleeping. I've been told it's not essential to have seen Thor in order to enjoy The Avengers, but it helps. I guess I'll get a lot more out of it now I understand Thor's complex relationship with his brother Loki, who I also couldn't give a shit about.
I am a falcon. Falcons are not safe. Falcons have talons, and on occasion, they use them. They also have sharp, notched beaks that snap bone and rend flesh. I am not safe and neither, always, is what I write. But I am not deliberately harmful. I think there is a big difference between a genuine trigger, as well as someone who seeks to deal out deliberate harm, and a piece of writing that may make me uncomfortable, upset, or a little bit sad on occasion. These things happen. They are emotions, so-called “negative” emotions. They are healthy. We should experience them. In facing them, they make us strong.
I'm sick of perfectly literate, grammatically capable people eschewing capitalization and punctuation when they have shown that they are well capable of employing it. Perhaps it's just me, but after seeing people use it deliberately for some time I come to associate it with a certain tone (thanks, primarily, to Tumblr and its SJWs) that can basically summed up with the words "b*tch please". It communicates flippancy and complete disregard for the argument (or, if I'm being even less generous, the entire personhood) of whomever you're communicating with.
but to me it just reeks of 'special snowflake': the implicit message is that the writer is so special that she or he can disregard the ordinary conventions of English-language discourse. It makes typed text harder to read, because the reader expects capital letters in certain places, and when they are not there, it grates and calls attention to itself.
You say yourself that you don't object to capitalization, but that you're too lazy to bother with the shift key. So what you're doing when you don't capitalize is pushing the work you don't want to be bothered with onto your readers. And unless something is badly wrong with your hands, you're causing each of us more work than you're saving yourself. So we naturally perceive it as insulting, since this tells us that you think your time and convenience are much, much more important than ours -- so much so that we ought not to mind donating ours to you.
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