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j4 ([personal profile] j4) wrote2007-04-26 11:09 am

Supercalifragalistic-txt-pialidocious

"It was so nerve wracking. My hands started to shake. I couldn't get my apostrophe"

[thanks to [livejournal.com profile] brrm for the link]

I used to have a phone which didn't have a semicolon. When complaining about this to other people I found that they were generally more sympathetic if I told them I needed it for winking emoticons; actually, though, I just like semicolons. I once got 3 house-points for "good punctuation", and I think that was mostly because of the semicolons. It's all gone to pot now, though. I blame kitteh, though the rot probably started setting in when ox.test represented the cutting edge of timewasting technology. Might it be coffee time now, please?

[identity profile] j4.livejournal.com 2007-04-26 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
ox.test was punctuated so pedantically properly that it distorted my perception of the world. Netnews in general has a lot to answer for, though, when it comes to tracking the slow disintegration of my brain from over-achieving childhood into LOL-ing and OMG-ing (nominal) adulthood; well, netnews, and irony. Too much irony in your diet gives you cancer.

[identity profile] vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com 2007-04-27 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
Constipation, maybe.