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Gay Hitler posted:One of my neighbors let drug addict named Jerry live in a tent in his backyard but wouldn't let him use the bathroom so he would hop into neighboring backyards and take hot steaming shits. Anywho the homeowner died and his son came down to take control of the estate but it seems like Jerry got him to smoke a bunch of meth and convince him that his father had been murdered in some documented conspiracy which the son started manicly raving about on next door asking who stole his fathers documents. Happy to post those rants if anyone's interested. All the replies are like, dude clearly Jerry did it and why is your yard covered is trash I keep coming back and refreshing and hoping you've posted the rants. I need to see this.
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Aug 25, 2021 02:49
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I really want to know what's behind boomer capitalization choices, because it's so distinctive.
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Aug 25, 2021 02:56
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Knormal posted:I really want to know what's behind boomer capitalization choices, because it's so distinctive. It reminds me of schizophrenic writing, emphasising some meaning that is self-evident to them.
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Aug 25, 2021 03:03
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Sometimes it's just dumb people
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Aug 25, 2021 03:10
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Not enough punctuation for schiz, but it's definitely reminiscent.
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Aug 25, 2021 03:58
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Knormal posted:I really want to know what's behind boomer capitalization choices, because it's so distinctive. Someone who does that kind of capitalization is the kind of person who thinks the Better Business Bureau is a government agency
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Aug 25, 2021 04:39
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Knormal posted:I really want to know what's behind boomer capitalization choices, because it's so distinctive. You have to put in Extra Work to get Random Words to be Capitalized. It doesn’t just happen in the course of texting. You have to keep pushing the Caps Button. One older guy I see in my feed somehow leaves two full spaces between some words which takes even more effort because autocorrect puts a period after a word of you hit the space bar twice, unless you wait like two seconds. E: I couldn’t even make that happen here. I left double spaces between some of the words and the forum reset them all to single space when I hit post. Ralph Hurley fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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Aug 25, 2021 06:02
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Ralph Hurley posted:You have to put in Extra Work to get Random Words to be Capitalized. It doesn’t just happen in the course of texting. You have to keep pushing the Caps Button. One older guy I see in my feed somehow leaves two full spaces between some words which takes even more effort because autocorrect puts a period after a word of you hit the space bar twice, unless you wait like two seconds. A lot of boomers got taught that double spacing was a thing you did for some reason (because of old typewriters) and like most things they're taught, stubbornly apply them at every possible opportunity even when they're actively unwanted and unhelpful.
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Aug 25, 2021 06:45
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Double-space after a period is correct and it is a mild irritation to me that the website shrinks things down to a single space. I take some measure of solace that at least I know that my posts would have proper spacing were it not for the website mangling my intended grammar.
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Aug 25, 2021 06:51
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Double-space after a period is correct and it is a mild irritation to me that the website shrinks things down to a single space. I take some measure of solace that at least I know that my posts would have proper spacing were it not for the website mangling my intended grammar. I too was taught to double space after a period, which was the fashion at the time.
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Aug 25, 2021 07:04
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double space after a period is just another way boomers are wrong and stupid.
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Aug 25, 2021 07:10
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Double-space after a period is correct and it is a mild irritation to me that the website shrinks things down to a single space. I take some measure of solace that at least I know that my posts would have proper spacing were it not for the website mangling my intended grammar. Not in the age of computers, with dynamic spacing. It was for typewriters, as they only had one type of space, but modern, dynamic, proportional fonts do not require it. This is backed up by every major style guide, from Chicago, to APA, to AP. The closest to saying it's correct is MLA, which only states "there is nothing wrong with using two spaces after concluding punctuation marks unless an instructor asks you to do otherwise." Sorry, but double space after a period is my writing hill I will die on until I stamp out this practice.
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Aug 25, 2021 07:16
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Neito posted:Not in the age of computers, with dynamic spacing. It was for typewriters, as they only had one type of space, but modern, dynamic, proportional fonts do not require it. The last I checked it is optional in APA. You can go ahead and die on your hill - double-space-after-period-4-lyfe!
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Aug 25, 2021 08:01
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CaptainSarcastic posted:The last I checked it is optional in APA. I googled it before I posted. "The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) was the only style guide that overtly recommended two spaces after a period, and even that long-time holdout for two spaces changed its guideline to one space in its 2019 update." https://www.instructionalsolutions.com/blog/one-space-vs-two-after-period
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Aug 25, 2021 08:05
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Mormon Nailer posted:I keep coming back and refreshing and hoping you've posted the rants. I need to see this. It looks like some of them have been deleted but there's a few left. I'll try to censor it properly tomorrow.
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Aug 25, 2021 08:06
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And I thought at least goons had stopped signing their posts.
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Aug 25, 2021 08:37
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Neito posted:I googled it before I posted. Don't care. 
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Aug 25, 2021 08:40
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You two arguing about style guides are both nerdlingers. English isn't a prescriptive language, whatever most people use is correct.
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Aug 25, 2021 12:12
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Ralph Hurley posted:You have to put in Extra Work to get Random Words to be Capitalized. It doesn’t just happen in the course of texting. You have to keep pushing the Caps Button. One older guy I see in my feed somehow leaves two full spaces between some words which takes even more effort because autocorrect puts a period after a word of you hit the space bar twice, unless you wait like two seconds. I do it all the time because it's one the best ways to be able to get more observant people to Read Your Posts Correctly. In a world where bolding and italics aren't always available, why not capitalize Random poo poo to make people read it differently in their head?
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Aug 25, 2021 18:44
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Because It makes [colour=ffffff]U[/colour]  Insane
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Aug 25, 2021 19:31
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:Because It makes [colour=ffffff]U[/colour] Big Mad Foreskin over here havin' lots of feels about some letters So, the thing is, I can't fuckin' understand how my dad chooses to capitalize words, even though I'm pretty much the exact same human being. I absolutely think it has to do with how they learned technology, but part of me wants to ask him if he can get the doctor to check his lead levels.
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Aug 25, 2021 22:10
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 Feral cat lady is back. She's been pretending to be her deceased mother on Nextdoor as well. It's been not great.
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Aug 25, 2021 23:39
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Sometimes I wonder if the random capitalization is a result of using phones to post and intending to YELL IN ALL CAPS but not being able to figure out how to do it on a touchscreen.
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Aug 25, 2021 23:39
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SRQ posted:double space after a period is just another way boomers are wrong and stupid. Nerdlinger here, just weighing in and agreeing with this post. e: Weka posted:English isn't a prescriptive language, whatever most people use is correct. This is also true.
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Aug 26, 2021 01:33
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Neito posted:Not in the age of computers, with dynamic spacing. It was for typewriters, as they only had one type of space, but modern, dynamic, proportional fonts do not require it. This is an inaccurate misreprestation of history. Having a double width space after the end of a sentence goes back long before the typewriter was ever invented. (you can go back to the 1600s and find typesetting guides specifying an em space instead of an en space) However, technological limitations of teletypesetter machines introduced in the 1950s caused single spacing to be recommended when using them, because you could damage the machine or require a reprint when putting two spaces next to each other. (This was due to spaces being handled with 'spacebands' rather than fixed size type, so you could balance a line of text by uniformly increasing the size of spaces in it) Boomers working with this technology then internalized this arbitrary technological insistance upon single spacing as correct, and created a false myth to explain why their way was 'correct' and 'traditional'. Which is why this subject is apporptiate for nextdoor.
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Aug 26, 2021 01:37
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  Is this a real fad/fashion thing i just don’t understand because I’m old?
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Aug 26, 2021 09:00
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Wait am I the only one here able to read sentences just fine no matter how many spaces there are after a period? What hell is this
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Aug 26, 2021 11:09
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down1nit posted:Wait am I the only one here able to read sentences just fine no matter how many spaces there are after a period? Every time the "double space after a period" thing comes up there's one or two people that flip the gently caress out one way or the other and I've never noticed in my life, despite habitually being a double-spacer.
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Aug 26, 2021 12:02
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MrQueasy posted:
maybe? gucci does make slides that are not unlike crocs for $420.   i received another YOUR NEIGHBOR HAS INVITED YOU TO NEXTDOOR in my mailbox. i'm too scared to sign up because it's the chud with the flag pole covered in chud flags who sent out the invites. the less he knows about me, the better. i also just don't have any social media accounts. would be a shame to soil my reputation with one.
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Aug 26, 2021 14:52
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MrQueasy posted:
Dazzling up crocs has been a thing for like a decade, on levels of irony beyond my ability to decode.
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Aug 26, 2021 14:57
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All the olds were gettin ornery about the red lobster being closed because of a lack of workers, and predictably going on and on about unemployment and handouts and "back in my day $7.00/hr was enough" I made a comment that I visited the red lobster and they gave me shrimp instead of lobster with a claw cracker and butter and someone added me as a friend I didn't know nextdoor had friends, I can't even find a friend list, what does this mean
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Aug 26, 2021 15:15
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PLease Keep Up
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Aug 26, 2021 15:16
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Smugworth posted:All the olds were gettin ornery about the red lobster being closed because of a lack of workers, and predictably going on and on about unemployment and handouts and "back in my day $7.00/hr was enough" Make a post on next door about people stalking you On next door. Post a blurry screenshot of the friend addition
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Aug 26, 2021 15:18
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My mom uses Nextdoor to organize games of Pickleball in her neighborhood. Is she in danger?
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Aug 26, 2021 15:35
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mkvltra posted:My mom uses Nextdoor to organize games of Pickleball in her neighborhood. Is she in danger? Boomer gang
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Aug 26, 2021 16:01
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Gay Hitler posted:One of my neighbors let drug addict named Jerry live in a tent in his backyard but wouldn't let him use the bathroom so he would hop into neighboring backyards and take hot steaming shits. Anywho the homeowner died and his son came down to take control of the estate but it seems like Jerry got him to smoke a bunch of meth and convince him that his father had been murdered in some documented conspiracy which the son started manicly raving about on next door asking who stole his fathers documents. Happy to post those rants if anyone's interested. All the replies are like, dude clearly Jerry did it and why is your yard covered is trash Hey Gay Hitler where the gently caress are the goods
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Aug 26, 2021 16:49
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down1nit posted:Wait am I the only one here able to read sentences just fine no matter how many spaces there are after a period? There was a period where using Microsoft Word defaults and putting in double spaces after a period tended to affect the overall kerning where your sentence ends made a really distracting river of white space and that's when I started my single space crusade.
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Aug 26, 2021 17:40
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zedprime posted:It's 2021, a lot of things let you put in a single or double space and then just make it an appropriate space for your font that's the same no matter the inputted characters. See also the conspiracy posts about your double space being eaten by the computer gremlin. Yeah we've engineered the problem away! It's never been easier to type useless drivel into a text box at night and make sure it's readable by everyone else.
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