Okay, I'm gonna need some help here.

[conuly]

It's like banging my head against a wall, but more painful. And if I'm going to keep wasting my time on this futile effort, I could at least get a little company there.

I mean, I'm not wrong, am I? My facts aren't wrong, are they? My thoughts aren't missing a crucial point, are they? This person IS being willfully annoying, right?

HELP ME OUT HERE I FEEL SO ALONE.

Also, I didn't know this as I don't really follow celebrity anything (I'm lucky if I know who a certain star IS, much less what they've done and why people care) or watch many movies or TV shows (I do watch TV, of course, but I seem to limit myself to three or four shows. If I add a new one, an old one inevitably drops off my list), but I'm realizing it now by looking at these pictures...

WOW does that girl look like her dad. Will Smith? HIS DAUGHTER LOOKS JUST LIKE HIM.

It's sorta creepy to look at, but I'm sure as she gets older it'll be more her face and less her dad as a young girl. (Kinda like a kid down her block who looks spookily like her grandmother... or she did at four. Creepy seeing a four year old who looks like a 50 year old woman, but now that she's 12 even though her face hasn't changed, it looks like HER instead of her grandma.)

Comments

[erisiansaint]

Wait, that was me who doesn't like the chatspeak, I'm the one who said that about the 'lol'ing.

But I don't like chatspeak. It's lazy, as I said further up, and saying 'lol' and breezing on without any further words to indicate that they know that their position is somewhat offensive or uncaring is just rude.

Anyway, I think you're conflating a lot of what I said with a lot of what Connie said.

Also, you're not going to be /my/ target. You actually take the trouble to offer your opinion with capital letters, punctuation, clarity, and some thought. Nor is it an unworthy opinion, just that I think you're taking someone else to task for what I said about the chatspeak and the mocking.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

"Anyway, I think you're conflating a lot of what I said with a lot of what Connie said."

??? Why do you think this? Read my text over again, I believe you will see that it is not so.

I know it was you who didn't like the chatspeak, but you aren't the only one who doesn't like it. Connie asked if the chick was being deliberately annoying; the use of chatspeak was the only thing I could see that might be construed as such. Granted, it's very annoying when one is trying to explain something and the explained-to doesn't get it, but that isn't the explained-to being annoying; it's the explainer being annoyed.

The mocking I was referring to was not yours. It was her "I wonder why I even bother. Some people..." comment, which is sideways as well as derisive. You were the person I was referring to as jumping on the mind-reading bandwagon, calling names and making attributions on the basis of extremely scanty evidence.

For example: "saying 'lol' and breezing on without any further words to indicate that they know that their position is somewhat offensive or uncaring is just rude." - how exactly are you deriving "I know my position is somewhat offensive and uncaring" from "lol"? Isn't that a pretty short and ambiguous sample upon which to base such an interpretation? How do you know what she thinks, what she cares or does not care about, from three letters of uninflected text?

"A spectacular display of privilege and jerkiness" - another harsh character-judgement made on the basis of almost no data. It's practically a textbook illustration of the word prejudice, pre-judging: deciding that one knows all about a person on the basis of a very few traits deemed to be stereotypical. I don't follow celebrities, so don't know who the person in her icon may be, but I can see how it might well be interpreted as the Face of Jerky White Privilege by someone who wished to see it that way. However, that's probably not why she chose it.

*shrugs* Yes, I write fluently in Academian, and have to deliberately stop myself from talking that way, which results in my verbal speech coming out fairly idiosyncratic. I'm also fluent in old-school 733t, and in earlier decades had people on Usenet threatening to packet-bomb me back to the Stone Age for using it too much. One can't gauge the intelligence of people by their online chat. One definitely can't gauge the intelligence of anybody by their ability to handle the mechanics of writing: that's what is called ableist.

I was born with near-perfect Spellcheck. It's not something I achieved, or worked for; it's not even a conscious process; just a 'wild talent'. My brilliant engineer brother, who was ten times the student I was, can't spell his way out of a paper bag, and has to rely on his computer's Spellcheck. I always figured any child of mine would inherit my spelling, but she didn't; she inherited her uncle's instead. Therefore, I have no patience with Spelling Nazis who think the ability to spell signifies either innate intelligence or commitment to scholarship. It doesn't; making fun of people for their poor spelling is on a level with making fun of them for poor hearing.