As a linguist, I agree with flashR about the text formatting (although being a linguist does not make what I say necessarily true, rather, I just want to present my point of view). Yes, internet is a free place, you can write your posts however you want, but I think we also reserve the right to criticize you for it. Sure, since you are not writing these posts in an official environment, it indeed makes more sense to form criticism on subjective criteria (I don't like it because X, I prefer Y because Z) rather than on an objective one (you are incorrect because X, it should be Y because Z). But that applies to you, Komo, so:

The way I type is very effective and easier to digest and more useful in a forum environment where people constantly quote each other, and need to look back at various threads for relative information.

This has no objective basis, you THINK it is effective, easier to digest and more useful in a forum environment, but the fact that I, one of your fellow forum readers, disagree with this notion proves that this is not an objective fact. I could say using five-word sentences is very effective and easier to digest (because shorter sentences), and more useful in a forum environment where most people have short attention span, but would you say it's an objective fact:

Folks, five words is enough. Five word sentences are fantastic. That I can tell you. And I am really smart. Believe me, I know words. I have the best words. Everyone agrees, and that's true. Now you look at Mexico. And you look at China. And you count their words. And it's too many, folks. Too many words, too many. Now I look into this crowd. And I see smart people. Smart people with five words. Maybe some who have six. But that's pushing it folks. I had Putin call me. He said, 'you know words'. 'How many should I use?' I said to use five. Because five words is enough. I can be so presidential. So presidential, with five words. It's tremendous, they tell me. Crooked Hillary uses too many. Always sick, too many words. You just can't trust her. Too many words to trust. Vote Trump, and believe me. We'll make America great again.

Is there a universal law on how we should read and write on the internet?

No, but it's a bad arguement. I could write all my posts like this:

A vheclie exlpedod at a plocie cehckipont naer the UN haduqertares in Bagahdd on Mnoday kilinlg the bmober and an Irqai polcie offceir

And argue that I don't have to worry about correct spellings since most people can decipher every word, but that doesn't mean I should write like that.


I would also argue that proper paragraphing (in the linguistic sense) is better than double-spacing every sentence. It makes more sense to separate sentences by their content rather than separating them indiscriminately, because I think most people can find what they want to quote more easily that way. I assume you're suggesting that double-spacing each sentence makes it easier to quote because you can more easily see where a sentence begins and ends, but seriously, if you want to quote a particular sentence, how hard is it to delete the sentences before and after it? I think making it easier to find the sentence makes more sense in this respect.


By the way, maybe a better alternative would be to incorporate bullet lists in your posts? Bullet points are shorter than traditional paragraphs, and you can even group them using sub-bullet points. I would argue that the new official Darts description is better formatted for most people than the old one.


Hope you guys don't mind me barging into your flame war lol, I just really love linguistics.

flashR, you're the one who started this nonsense a few weeks ago when you critisized the way I type, I'll stop when you stop.

Why nonsense? This is true. I wrote this after you've started flooding me again with a huge mass of text, the half of which was off topic. It was difficult for me to read it, so I've started criticizing this "every sentence to a new paragraph" style. Walrus noticed the same thing btw.

I would also argue that proper paragraphing (in the linguistic sense) is better than double-spacing every sentence. It makes more sense to separate sentences by their content rather than separating them indiscriminately, because I think most people can find what they want to quote more easily that way.

Agreed 100%. But it seems like Komodo will never understand this. 

Bullet points are shorter than traditional paragraphs, and you can even group them using sub-bullet points. I would argue that the new official Darts description is better formatted for most people than the old one.

The new description is surely better formatted and much easier to understand and read.

Hope you guys don't mind me barging into your flame war lol, I just really love linguistics.

Sure, you are welcome. I used to work as a copywriter in the past btw, therefore I could have write a lot about this topic as well, but I didn't want to argue.

Lately I'm lazy to read all comments on TUS. I wonder if Monkey Island reads all stuff that is going on all these years. Specially when Komo joins the discussion, what is very common, I confess I loose a bit of interest to continue reading the discussion.

Something that is strange for me is to see exclamation points all the time. On a poem I could understand it, but even on poems it's rare to see so many exclamation points. I never seen Komo talking the way he writes on his streams, I know that a forum and a stream are different environments. But, man I really can't imagine someone talking with so many exclamation points like we're experiencing here!

Because it looks like that someone is unnaturally happy all the time! You gotta read to understand it!

Imagine someone talking like this on a hospital!

Imagine someone talking to you like this on the street!

Then I think on Lupastic's emojis and I wonder if he talks using emojis in real life lol. Making faces every sentence and calling people he is not close to with nicknames he created. My favorite is Daddycode lol.

Yes the hackdoublespecialkey ropef@#!ers

Why would I need to talk the same way I write?

Wait, you said that you write the same way as most people who think deeply (meant yourself, obviously) speak. So if you write the same way as you speak, then you speak the same way as you write. L - Logic. Is that right?

Proof:

The way I type is the same way most people who think deeply speak, they say a sentence and a bunch of stuff together separated with commas. After a few moments with a brief pause, they continue to speak which establishes the gap between each train of thought.

You do not see body language via text

Exactly, this is the reason why we need to pay x2 attention to the way people write.