You obviously have no grasp of the english language (or Internet Pet Peeves)

I think of a forum as a place where people can talk in a conversational tone. It does become annoying when people want to turn forums into academic essays where you must have the correct punctuation in the correct place at all times. I know that a lot of people respond to posts late and night and sometimes mistakes happen when the brain isn't fully awake. Besides, there are some punctuation marks that can be used interchangably depending on how the writer meant the sentence to be said (and poetry must drive the grammar police nuts).

Frankly, as long as the majority of the posters can understand what you are saying--regardless of grammar or sentence usage--then I'm fine with it. What annoys me are sentences where the average English speaker can not understand:

"D00d taht is UBER L33T! W44nA git w00t!1! Dis $hi+ is teh sexay B4N4N4s!"

Not the best example, but I hope you understand what I mean.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by EmmDoubleEw

What's wrong with acronyms? Everyone knows what they mean and they're easier to type out.

Also you can avoid the full on F word if you use WTF and GTFO.

What really bothers me is pretty random , but it's people who try to sound really smart and complicated by using tons of adverbs and adjectives and complicated words, but it just makes them look silly.

This especially happens in this situation:

"Okay dude, whatever, I'm not dealing with your stupidity."
"May I kindly inform yourself dear forumite that I, ineed, have been educated thorougly throughout my entire life and am, at the present time, strenuously studying mathematics at the prestigiously prestigious school MIT whose name you may have heard if it were not for your quasi-cultured layman background."



Does anyone know what I mean?

I know exactly what you mean. About every single time I meet someone like this they are always too arrogant for their own good and have very few friends. They act like grades are the most important thing in the world and they insult people all the time, even when that person knows the answer to the "intellectual's" problem. They interrupt people whenever they have a thought and wonder why they do not have friends. Using big words can be good, I just don't like it when they try to use them all the time in order to prove how smart they are.

I don't mind the occasional "WTF" or "IMHO", but it's trying to translate whole sentences into that kind of language that is really annoying.

There's nowhere I can't reach.