Actually, I am known to occasionally produce quite extensive walls of text. You have to be aware: I'm a geek. And like most geeks, I can be a smart-ass (Well, sometimes. But a harmless one I assure you, not one of the annoying types!). I'm one of those people who tend to express themselves unnecessarily complicated and long-winded. So if a topic triggers my interest, you may find me going on and on, endlessly. That's not to say I like to babble. I just want to be thorough with the information I share. See, many people on the internet tend to assume a certain degree of knowledge in their opposite in a discussion, which quite often actually may not be there. I try not to do that, because I've seen way too many misunderstandings arise from such simple cases of lack of proper communication. An then there's the pestilence of "chat speech" (you know, the rampant usage of abbreviation, like "u" or "plz"), which has become far too wide-pread for my taste. Well, I suppose that's okay for something fast-lived, non-permanent, like a chat. I can also understand if people typing a SMS on a painfully small and unergonomic cellphone may want to limit the number of buttons they have to press as much as possible. But I'm sitting in front of a big screen and a proper keyboard, and I'm contributing to a lasting medium (Well, I hope at least. Judging from the previous Angels2200-forums we'll be looking for a new place in a year or so...
). So, yes, I want my writings to be properly readable. However, I'm no grammar- ir spelling-nazi. English is not my native language, and even in my native language, I kinda suck.
Where was I?