Does Lad type affect your everyday typing

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Baiting Guru Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 2531 Location: AU

One thing i have found constantly being a lad in baits that even in RL
I tend to type and end up leaving out letters and words. Not a huge amount but it is noticable. It is usually the way i would write to lads. It must be just hammered into my head to type like that.

does anyone else have this issue. Laughing

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2010 Posts: 46

Not that I know of.

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:46 am

I know what you mean. I always say bellow instead of below when writing to lads, as in 'The details for retrieving the mtcn are shown bellow'. I've been typing this for so long that, in RL, I sometimes pause for a second to remind myself which is right.

Occasionally I'm half tempted to write Modality but then I manage to restrain myself.

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 2:53 pm

NO.AM FINE BUT YOU BETTER WARCH YOUSELF

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 3:44 pm

I had the reflex to end all my emails with "remain bless" for a while Laughing

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 1440

Quote:

AM FINE

That's what I often do. I write things like "am going out" or "am ok" to my RL friends.

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:45 pm

I try and include the word 'modality' somewhere in every (RL) Office memo that I send out.

I'd never heard of the word before joining Eater Smile

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:05 pm

Perhaps the use of the Modality word could be used as a secret err... modality for baiters to recognise each other out in the RL world. A bit like the legendary Masonic secret handshake.

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:13 pm

^^^^^

Just had a weird thought of wandering around the country saying Modality to everyone i meet.... Laughing

Wonder how long it would be before they locked me up...... Laughing

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:20 am

The only thing that I notice, I'm short with people. Razz

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:44 am

If someone sends me a long, rambling email at work I have been sorely tempted to ignore the contents and reply with:

"I'm interested. Please tell me more."

Wink

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 4:11 pm

A while back I built a website for someone, set up email aliases for a few variants of his name, and forwarded the rest to myself (to catch stuff like webmaster@/admin@/anything else I didn't think of). Turns out the name of his site was one letter off from some Chinese electronics company, so I started receiving a lot of their mail because their employees suck at typing.

At first I started sending out slightly insulting replies telling them to learn to type, or advising them to power electronic components with absurd amounts of current. When that didn't work, I linked them to http://ratonland.org/img/articles/bunny-pancake.gif. I even attempted to fire one who thought I was his boss. Laughing

Then one asked me for a license for some piece of software they were using. So I did what any good baiter would do: take an existing ID card, change the name on it, and write "LICENSE" across the top. He thanked me and I haven't heard from any of them since.

... yeah, I'd say it's affected me a bit Wink

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 1440

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Perhaps the use of the Modality word could be used as a secret err... modality for baiters to recognise each other

Or maybe "demurrage"?

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:13 pm

I sometimes dream of getting gnax or godaddy on the phone...fellow site killers will understand how *that* conversation goes! Suffice it to say, a few weeks ago I woke up shouting at my dog. Razz

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 17 Jun 2010 Posts: 7

Whenever I bump into someone on the street, I involuntarily threaten with juju that will cause them mysterious death, And make fun of their momas toto all while telling them how their mother and father will bury them. Smile

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 3:54 am

ScammedOut wrote:

Or maybe "demurrage"?

I actually received a legitimate invoice last week that had demurrage fees. I was tempted to sign it and write GO FURK UR ASS BIGFOOLLLL in the comments section, but I was able to restrain myself. Laughing

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:39 am

and from this week I'm going to start all my RL memos with :-

Quote:

Hello Dear

How are you today , fine I guess

and sign off by saying

Quote:

Get back to me soonest

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 11:52 am

I use modality every day in conversation.
It's my favourite word. Very Happy

Lad speak doesn't affect my typing as I always email them in perfectly good English.
Even when chopping.

419Eater is my life Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 441

Sometimes a get a little fraudstrated. Or I start eucalyptising things.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 30 Jul 2010 Posts: 18

I find myself in texts and e-mail shortening sentences, leave out words, and absolutely no punctuation. They have also become honey, dearest, and darlings.

419Eater is my life Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 366

I know that I have to be careful early in the morning switching from lad emails to RL business emails. One of these days its going to happen before the caffiene sinks in and the send inhibitors start working, the message will leave and I will be explaining that no we don't pay by WU I need a bank account to do a cash transfer. I will be pleading with a... that this is a valued customer and I did actually recieve the goods I ordered for the price I expected to pay.

p.

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 1440

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Get back to me soonest

Or, "Waiting for your urgent reply".

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 503

Hi how you doin is the one that gets me the most. In RL I sometimes find it difficult to come out of bait mode as I switch between work and bait emails on and off all day.

I'd sometimes like to heap the abuse I heap on my lads as well and have to restrain myself!!

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:10 pm

I use the word Tambambling sometimes in RL conversations down the pub etc. It is almost second nature now thanks to this site.

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:49 pm

I frequently greet my friends who know about my baiting with "How far, guy?"

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