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Steven, said:

I couldn't agree with you more! A friend of mine likes to do a lot of text messaging on her cell phone, and after one or two replies I'M looking for the shortest and easiest way to respond. I'm not that good of a typist myself. I can type about 15 words a minute, but with a lot of mistakes. I'm hitting the <backspace> key a lot and I usually still find an typo or 2 after I post. (Thank God for the <edit> button!)

It (chatroom shorthand) doesn't bother me as much as it used to, for all of the reasons you said. At first I had a hard time reading it, and I still do sometimes. I take the time to make sure my posts are relatively free of misspellings, and punctuation errors, because I want to comunicate what I'm saying as clearly as possible.

My concern is that a lot of younger people are starting to write that way in formal communication, and they think that it's acceptable because they chat and text constantly. Math and reading skills have been dropping in the US for the last 20 years, and I think calculators and computers are partly to blame. Fewer really good teachers is another part of the problem.

Anyway, I try not to judge people by how their posts look. Sometimes people are just in a hurry and don't have time to make everything look perfect. The essence of the message still gets through.

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This is an area I don't know about since I don't have children. Yet it appears things are getting more lax. Calculators weren't allowed in classes when I was in High School,  I don't even know if they were affordable, and available with complex functions around 1970, yet they weren't allowed in classes assuming they even existed around 1970. During exams while in college, assuming there wasn't the "honor system" many prof's made students take their watches off (because basic calculators were coming out in watch size around that period).  All Math had to by written out, and the full process of solving for variables had to be shown on paper...With the exception of multiple choice which wasn't as common. There were no computers in those days (for me), although a few years later the language "basic" came out, and there was a computer center interfaced with a few other local universities, no word processors were EVER allowed, and there weren't shortcuts allowed when writing papers...

I haven't a clue anymore about proper punctuation, yet teachers were sticklers for comma's semi-colons etc being used properly. At the college level mispelled words weren't tolerated at all... Things were pretty formal. Today I haven't a clue about apostrophe usage anymore and abuse the hell out've it. I just forgot the correct procedure.

Won't be long until I'm able to take community college courses free of charge. I was thinking of taking a refresher english course, but I'm afraid certain rules will have been bent by that time period such as;

1)   It's ceptible to start a sentence with the word Yo

2)   Always place the apostrophe between the F and N in the contraction If'n

3)   Yez is always present tense !  (yez dudes)

4)   Always place a comma before the phrase "you know" when using the phrase
      to end your sentence.

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 LMAO  LMAO
When I was a kid my brother once said "I ain't got any home work." and my mom said, "that's no way to talk."

My Dad said, "Yeah, It's 'I ain't got no homework.' If you're gonna say it wrong, say it wrong right!"

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steven i knew u screwed up but didn't want to rub ur face in it....yes i'm a nice guy....and those r the biggest words i know....

I wonder if Don King has a dictionary out yet.  I have Richard Hall's around here someplace.




This is the only way I can recall big words Billy, just using them joking around..I can't remember most of this stuff, and today when a person uses such a vocabulary, people call the person funny names...  yet I don't want to forget all of this stuff I learned at one point either.. So I goof around and play, and sure enough, I learned something.. Yet today, you just don't find people frequently use these large words anymore...The dictionary would be quite small if it contained only words most people ever bother to use  

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Allow me the honor of giving you a brief lesson in Prof. Steven Kaplan, Ph.D.'s many abhorrent attributes. Before I begin, let me point out that I want to operate on today's real -- not tomorrow's ideal -- political terrain. That may seem simple enough, but Steven says that the Earth is flat. Yet he also wants to cashier anyone who tries to fight the warped, distorted, misshapen, unwholesome monstrosity that his schemes have become. Am I the only one who sees the irony there? I ask because the drivel emanating freely from his mouth gives me cause to reach for the nearest vomit pail. Nevertheless, I can state with absolute certainty that his disciples often reverse the normal process of interpretation. That is, they value the unsaid over the said, the obscure over the clear. I see how important Steven's testy, craven pleas are to his toadies and I laugh. I laugh because he does not tolerate any view that differs from his own. Rather, Steven discredits and discards those people who contradict him along with the ideas that they represent. I attribute the social and psychological problems of modern society to the fact that most of you reading this letter have your hearts in the right place. Now follow your hearts with actions. Like a verbal magician, Steven knows how to lie without appearing to be lying, how to bury secrets in mountains of garbage-speak. It has been revealed that he plans to pit people against each other. First reaction yields that I pledge -- in my daily life, in my family, my work, my community, my country, and my region -- to give direction to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality. A little more thought leads to the more accurate conclusion that Steven may have access to weapons of mass destruction. Then again, I consider him to be a weapon of mass destruction himself.

There are no two ways about it; purists may object to my failure to present specific examples of Steven's chthonic ideas. Fortunately, I do have an explanation for this omission. The explanation demands an understanding of how I know some churlish wackos who actually believe that children don't need as much psychological attentiveness, protection, and obedience training as the treasured household pet. Incredible? Those same people have told me that his blessing is the equivalent of a papal imprimatur. With such people roaming about, it should come as no surprise to you that the baneful nature of Steven's expedients is not just a rumor. It is a fact to which I can testify. What shall we do? We have several options. We might wage war on nepotism. We might raise several issues about his jackbooted words that are frequently missing from the drivel that masquerades for discourse on this topic. Or, we might confront and reject all manifestations of prætorianism. Any of these options, I aver, are acceptable. Still, we must choose one of them or else Steven will court a sanctimonious minority of possession-obsessed jabberers when you least expect it.

Steven promises that if we give him and his pals additional powers, he'll guard us from counter-productive dossers. My question, however is, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Who will guard the guards? Indubitably, I can guarantee the readers of this letter that compared to obstreperous jackanapes like him, every pimp is a man of honor. And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to anneal discourse with honesty, clear thinking, and a sense of moral good. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that he wants us to feel sorry for the devious, doctrinaire nudniks who spoil the whole Zen Buddhist New Age mystical rock-worshipping aura of our body chakras. I, for one, insist we should instead feel sorry for their victims, all of whom know full well that if Steven doesn't realize that it's generally considered bad style to make a mockery of the term "phytosociological", then he should read one of the many self-help books on the subject. I recommend he buy one with big print and lots of pictures. Maybe then, Steven will grasp the concept that last summer, I attempted what I knew would be a hopeless task. I tried to convince Steven that I truly refuse to kowtow to his dotty cult. As I expected, Steven was entirely unconvinced.

Steven knows how to lie. It's too bad he doesn't yet understand the ramifications of lying. I am not fooled by his hopeless and eristic rhetoric. I therefore gladly accept the responsibility of notifying others that in asserting that we can change the truth if we don't like it the way it is, he demonstrates an astounding narrowness of vision. I call upon Steven to stop his oppression, lies, immorality, and debauchery. I call upon him to be a man of manners, principles, honour, and purity. And finally, I call upon him to forgo his desire to undermine serious institutional and economic analyses and replace them with a diverting soap opera of diabolic, scabrous conspiracies.

Steven extricates himself from difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. His minions seem to be caught up in their need for enemies. The reason is simple: The first lies that he told us were relatively benign. Still, they have been progressing. And they will continue to progress until there is no more truth; Steven's lies will grow until they blot out the sun. If nothing else, if the human race is to survive on this planet, we will have to provide a positive, confident, and assertive vision of humanity's future and our role in it. Summa summarum, Prof. Steven Kaplan, Ph.D.'s understrappers are suckers for rallying chants, regurgitated, standardized slogans, and other behavioral reinforcements.

very well said JD....i couldn't have said it better myself....truth is i couldn't have said it at all....now just what DID you say?
i'm not sure there was anything mentioned that we all didn't know about steven....i'm sorry....our leader....

he lied to me 4 times already...once he was female then male then female....who knows....oh, he also said he was a 3 in singing....yea right....rumor hass it he's a strong 1 r maybe a 2....but a 3 ?  not even we his followers wil believe that one...
but i'll wait for his reply to see if he will really tell the truth....i'm guessing not....

all this is just MY opinion...but its really the only one that counts anyway....  :wave:

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In this response I will consider the social, economic and pragmatic aspects of Jerry. I feel his adroit arcane albeit garrulously haughty remonstrative is deserving of rejoinder paying due deference to his lugubriously squalid albeit lofty superfluous soliloquoy whcih engenders a  paucity of substance. Given that its influence pervades our society, there are just not enough blues songs written about Jerry, not to mention his assiduous betrothment with my girlfriend Billy ! It is an unfortunate consequence of our civilizations history that Jerry is rarely given rational consideration by the over 50 group however, whom I can say no more about due to legal restrictions. Relax, sit back and gasp as I display the rich tapestries of Jerry (and Billy alike).  (Yet for the sake of brevity, I shall hone in on Jerry in this excerpt).

Social Factors

There is cultural and institutional interdependence between members of any community. When Lance Bandaner said 'twelve times I've traversed the ocean of youthful ambition but society still collects my foot prints' [1] he globalised an issue which had remained buried in the hearts of our ancestors for centuries. Both tyranny and democracy are tried and questioned. Yet Jerry irons out misconceptions from our consciousness.

Of paramount importance to any study of Jerry within its context, is understanding the ideals of society. It has been said that the one thing in society which could survive a nuclear attack is Jerry. This is incorrect, actually cockroaches are the only thing which can survive a nuclear attack.

Economic Factors

Our world is driven by supply and demand. We will begin by looking at the Fish-Out-Of-Water model. For those of you unfamiliar with this model it is derived from the Three-Amigos model but with greater emphasis on the outlying gross national product. Market
Value
Of
Gold

 Jerry


There are a number of reasons which may be attributed to this unquestionable correlation. In spite of the best efforts of The World Bank the market value of gold, ultimately decided by politicians, will always be heavily influenced by Jerry due to its consistently high profile in the portfolio of investors. Perhaps to coin a phrase Jerryeconomics will be the buzz word of the century

Political Factors

The media have made politics quite a spectacle. Contrasting the numerous political activists campaigning for the interests of Jerry can be like looking at the two sides of Jerry.

One quote comes instantly to mind when examining this topic. I mean of course the words of nobel prize winner Kuuipo Skank 'political change changes politics, but where does it go?' [2] He was first introduced to Jerry by his mother. It would be wise to approach the subject with the thought that 'if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all'. However this can lead to missing out important facts.

I hope, for our sake that Jerry will endure.
Conclusion

In conclusion, Jerry is not a need but a longing. He seeks order, his figures show he's evolved into a winning formula, yet there's a logical reason for this. The reason dates back to the lecture Jerry sat in on in the late 1960's by Prof. Steven Kaplan.

To date Jerry endures solely by recalling the following Poem indelibly inscribed within each and every waking hour~

Summa Summarum
by Prof. Steven Kaplan


the sum of sums
is that we can never give
more than we take

that autumn will tumble into spring
without winter being noticed

loneliness becomes a need to escape the crowds

and even the brightest of sunrises
inevitably turns into falling sunsets
holding on with its burgeoning embers


The very memory of this, is Jerry's backbone.






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[1] Lance Bandaner - Adventurous Spirit - 1993 See-Saw Publishing

[2] Skank - Politics for Dummies - PV6 Media

[3] Go mad for Jerry - Issue 132 - Kendeal Books




Well, I was a 1.85 until some miserable (@$%&#!) hiding behind the anonymity of the current ranking system felt compelled to ruin my score by giving me a "3" on one of my latest submissions.  :(     That brought me up to over "2" now.  I suspect I know who it was though !  I have pretty harsh competition down here !!! Considering I only had two hit's, and one was me, (different SN I use in here so noone will know who I am at times) it wouldn't have been tough to bring my average up by bombing me with a high rank !  While I won't give any actual names, I'll drop I hint, HE's someone who feel's threatened by my crude talent !  He's concerned he might be improving, and this is a tremendous fear he lives with on a daily basis !!  While I won't give any actual names, the person I'm thinking of has a nickname that sounds a little like this " _adSinger", this individual feel's threatened by the competition !   I suspect HE might be the person giving me high ranks in hopes of making me miserable !!

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    I'm not even going to edit this mistake, it's pretty funny !

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".