Posted: February 12th, 2009 | Author: ljn | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: IM, words | No Comments »
Leif Nordberg
yo
Marisa Levine
hi
Leif Nordberg
hello
Marisa Levine
hola
Leif Nordberg
greetings
Marisa Levine
shalom
Leif Nordberg
alo?
Marisa Levine
aloha
Leif Nordberg
i’m going to take that as bye. therefore you lose
Marisa Levine
nope
Leif Nordberg
< win
<< double win
It continued from here as one would imagine.
Postscript: Two <’s equal double win
Double postscript: I did kind of phone it in with “alo?”
Posted: February 2nd, 2009 | Author: ljn | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: capitalization, grammar, IM, John Hodgman | No Comments »
I joined the Internet during the age of AOL chat rooms.
There were a lot of rules, but probably none more important than THOU MUST NOT TYPE IN ALL CAPS. It’s considered yelling.
And it’s not just an IM thing, nor even an Internet thing. Just don’t do it. IT LOOKS TACKY.
One person has me rethinking this: the glorious Mr. John Hodgman. He uses it appropriately in his amazing books – The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require. And then he brought it to Twitter land.
@hodgman FOR ALL YOUR ALL CAPS NEEDS.
