sororities/fraternities

[Grakthis]

yeah, i'm done. i can tell it's totally pointless to have an argument with you.

"anyone can start a conflict, it's harder yet to disregard it"-Jewel

I love how people can do this in debates.

I wish this worked in war.  Like, if France in 1920 could have just said "You know what Germany, we don't want to fight anymore.  So just pack up and get your boot off our necks."

And Germany would be all like "Ok, ok, ok.  You're right.  I guess I am the big asshole for starting all this.  I'll apologize and I'll leave right now."

And then France could walk around feeling all smug about themselves and say things like "See, we are big enough to just let the fight go.  It's harder to disregard the conflict than to continue it.  Ha ha ha ha ha.  Cheese and wine, etc etc."

...

OH WAIT! IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT BECAUSE FRANCE WAS GETTING THE SHIT BEAT OUT OF THEM BY GERMANY AND GERMANY WOULD SCOFF AT THEIR STUPIDITY AND CONTINUE TO POUND THEM INTO DUST.

PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER, SOLDIER!  QUITTING DOESN'T MAKE THE ENEMY LEAVE YOU ALONE! IT JUST MAKES YOU AN EASIER TARGET.  IF I HAD ROLLED OVER LIKE THAT IN 'NAM THE COMMI'S WOULD BE IN YOUR PRETTY ORANGE COUNTY HOUSE, WITH YOUR FANCY CARS AND REAL WOOD FLOORS, MAKING YOU EAT POTATOS AND RICE  3 MEALS A DAY!  AND YOU'D LIKE IT BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T HAVE A CHOICE!

NO MORE USC FOOTBALL FOR YOU!  IT'D BE THE COMMUNIST REDS VS THE CAPITALIST PIGS AND THE REDS WOULD ALWAYS WIN!

Bah.

*spits on corpse*

[Holly]

yes, cause a message board can be compared to world wars... haha.
but but seriously, you cant understand where i'm coming from, you probably never will. but can you accept that it makes me happy and let it go?? i worked hard to get this and i love it.

[Katia's Lover]

Edit:  Also, line breaks make reading your posts much better.  Paragraphs are really really neat.  Oh wait, I guess your in a sorority now.... the rules of grammer go out the door.  Like, OMFG! WOW!

DING DING DING!

this is a thing called a message board, i really could care less about my grammer.

 :roflmao:

[Holly]

Edit:  Also, line breaks make reading your posts much better.  Paragraphs are really really neat.  Oh wait, I guess your in a sorority now.... the rules of grammer go out the door.  Like, OMFG! WOW!

DING DING DING!

this is a thing called a message board, i really could care less about my grammer.

 :roflmao:

do i need say it again? i dont give a f*&%.
andrew, todd, if you don't like the way i talk, ignore me, please.

[Grakthis]

yes, cause a message board can be compared to world wars... haha.
but but seriously, you cant understand where i'm coming from, you probably never will. but can you accept that it makes me happy and let it go?? i worked hard to get this and i love it.

I understand where you are coming from.  It's just that you're coming from a bad position.  Doesn't mean I don't understand it.  I mean, if someon says to me "2+1 = 5" and I say "no it's not."  And he or she says "but to me, 1 is 3, therefore it is."  Then I would understand where he or she was coming from..... but he or she would still be operating on a stupid system of mathematics.

I'm not trying to convince you NOT to join the sorority.  It doesn't make one difference to me either way what you do with your life.  I'm just trying to tell you that 1 does not equal 3.

Edit: Man... that post of mine up there was comedic genius.  I mean... I WROTE the thing, and I just read it, and it STILL made me lol!

I'M A RIOT!

[Katia's Lover]

Edit:  Also, line breaks make reading your posts much better.  Paragraphs are really really neat.  Oh wait, I guess your in a sorority now.... the rules of grammer go out the door.  Like, OMFG! WOW!

DING DING DING!

this is a thing called a message board, i really could care less about my grammer.

 :roflmao:

do i need say it again? i dont give a f*&%.
andrew, todd, if you don't like the way i talk, ignore me, please.

Well you should give a fuck.  Do you know how stupid you look?  When you enter a debate such as this one, you're not going to win many battles with "OMFG!  LMAO!  WHAT A N00B!!!212111111!!!!!"

Then again, your English skills do match the sorority girl persona, so I guess it fits in this argument.

[Holly]

wow... sorority girl persona? lets just give people lables. forget the fact that i go to a good college and the average gpa of my house is much higher than that of my college as a whole. and one of the reasons i was chosen is because of my gpa. i do well in school... but lets just judge my intellect on the way i speak on a message board.

[Grakthis]

wow... sorority girl persona? lets just give people lables. forget the fact that i go to a good college and the average gpa of my house is much higher than that of my college as a whole. and one of the reasons i was chosen is because of my gpa. i do well in school... but lets just judge my intellect on the way i speak on a message board.

He makes a good point.  Your annecdotal evidence doesn't discount his actual point.

He didn't invent the sorority girl stereotype.  He's just laughing at how you aren't in any way doing anything to hurt that stereotype.

It's not that how you speak neccesarily declares how smart you are.  But it DOES declare how smart other people will THINK you are.

If you speak intelligently, people will assume you are intelligent.  Obv, I already know you're a smart girl.  But if I didn't know that, I sure wouldn't make that assumption from your last 4 posts in this thread.

I'm sure you will insist that you don't talk/type like that other places.  But you and I both know that habbits carry from medium to medium.  If you type this way on a MB then you probably type this way in papers AND THEN go back and fix it all before you turn it in.  Often times we don't have the luxury of the time for that kind of proof reading.

Learn to type properly the first time and you'd cut out the middle man AND make yourself seem more intelligent in online mediums where proof reading is a luxury.

Remember, e-mail is a HUGE form of business communication and many e-mail spell checkers will miss specific kinds of mistakes.

Learning to communicate intelligently is the SINGLE most valuable skillset in most jobs.

[Logikal X]

This is true.  I used to have excellent verbal skills until i got sucked into this online chat blabber.  Now i have trouble typing up my tech papers at work because im just not sure what sounds best.  

I really need to take a few english courses to get my groove back.  Its expecially odd that my grammar skills were destroyed so easily since i always aced english courses

[Grakthis]

This is true.  I used to have excellent verbal skills until i got sucked into this online chat blabber.  Now i have trouble typing up my tech papers at work because im just not sure what sounds best.  

I really need to take a few english courses to get my groove back.  Its expecially odd that my grammar skills were destroyed so easily since i always aced english courses

Oh, they fail FAST.

If I travel somewhere that people talking funny.... down south, in west virginia, canada, etc ... for an extended period, I pick up their verbal habits in like 3 days.

I start talking with an accent, or saying "eh" after every sentance.

It's sad.  People pick up communication habbits QUICKLY.  Luckily I still do a LOT of business writing and e-mail writing to professionals, so I keep my skills pretty up to date.

plus, still being in grad school doesn't hurt.  We write a lot of case studies.

[aleera84]

WOW a 25 year old and someone who is obsessed with a moderator off this message board picking on a poor girl who just got a little bit of happiness in her life!

Good job guys, you have probably just ruined something that Holly deserves to be proud of and is happy about.
I hope you're happy... Also you're life must be pretty dull if you spend so much of your time caring about Holly's and anyone else’s grammar.

[Katia's Lover]

Also you're life must be pretty dull if you spend so much of your time caring about Holly's and anyone else’s grammar.

Eh, it's been pretty easy.  I've spent, um, 15 minutes tops.

[Grakthis]

WOW a 25 year old and someone who is obsessed with a moderator off this message board picking on a poor girl who just got a little bit of happiness in her life!

Good job guys, you have probably just ruined something that Holly deserves to be proud of and is happy about.
I hope you're happy... Also you're life must be pretty dull if you spend so much of your time caring about Holly's and anyone else’s grammar.

Oh STFU.  Seriously.  No one wants to hear it.  She's an adult and can handle herself.  She's not a "poor girl" who needs defending by YOU.

No one is picking on anyone.  As I already stated, I wasn't even addressing her.  I was addressing the MB in general.

look, if I was tricked into a pyramid scheme I might run around being happy about it.  Does that mean no one should tell me "Hey, you just got scammed!"

No.  Sometimes you gotta break the bad news.

[aleera84]

um....

[Chloe]

Oh, they fail FAST.

If I travel somewhere that people talking funny.... down south, in west virginia, canada, etc ... for an extended period, I pick up their verbal habits in like 3 days.

I start talking with an accent, or saying "eh" after every sentance.

It's sad.  People pick up communication habbits QUICKLY.  Luckily I still do a LOT of business writing and e-mail writing to professionals, so I keep my skills pretty up to date.

plus, still being in grad school doesn't hurt.  We write a lot of case studies.

*cough* :roll: