The roleplaying complex. xD
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...Maybe I am not used to the kind of roleplaying I'm seeing now. XD But I've seen this a few times in roleplays that have been started through smails, and had it further confirmed today.
Has anyone else noticed that people who sound perfectly literate when they talk to you seem to lose their knowledge of the English language once they roleplay? I mean, seriously; they say they spell check, and grammar check, and talk perfectly literately, but then their posts skip out basic punctuation, and sometimes come out in such a mess that you can barely understand them.
Is it rushing? Or is it a sort of style that people skip over as irrelevent, to make the posts as quick as possible (at least over smail) to continue the story?
I started roleplaying on a forum where it was over-literate to such an extent that if you didn;t spend hours on each post, you were considered illiterate. XD But I have never let a post go without reading through it. D:
An example of what I am talking about:
When I felt a soft nudge against my brown body, which in turn opened my dark brown eyelids to revel my light hazel brown orbs and that is when I saw that a new mare was next to my lying body. I turned my darker colored crown towards the strange new mare; I then let go of a sniff from my cold. Darn cold!. I wish I were not ill. shaking my dark brown crown, which caused my little darker colored body to shiver. I also knew that I got my quietness from my mum, but I knew I was not as quiet as her, I would always love my mum despite how little I had know her.</p>
<p>I then began to gather all of my strength that was coming though my weak body, my brown colored auds flicked backwards when I heard the mares lyrics, I had to give a little think as I tried to make sure I understood what she had just said towards me. I then opened my light brown colored maw and my little quiet lyrics came out I’m fine, madam.</p>
<p>Apart from my cold and being ill, but I was not going to mention that I was ill, it was my problem and nobody else’s problem. i then looked away from the strange mare, trying to remember what my mum named me, I then new what my mum had named me. It strange name, but so where my sisters, but mum would not name me something she would not think would suit me. Also my mum told me not to tell anyone my name unless someone asks me to tell them what my name is.
Yes, it's a horse. But this style seems to be common.
Am I the only one noticing this complex? xD
Orbs. shudder
This is why I'm very picky about who I RP with. it's very tempting to go overboard with the descriptive purple prose.
Also, whoever wrote that was shooting themselves in the foot when they chose to do it in first person. It's not necessary to emphasise the colours and descriptions of someone's physical attributes every time you mention them; it sounds even more daft when it's in first person.
~ wet and wild ~
lol
I need to stop being so insecure about my writing. Thanks, man. :)
XD In later posts, the just-born foal who can speak and recognise everything in the world around him just minutes after his first feed walks around on it's 'collumns'. Others toss their 'cerebrums' and flare their 'nares', the hairs inside their nostrils. xD; I am not very fond of that site; I think the only reason my friend stays on there is to post with her tongue in her cheek. xD
I'm not saying I am an incredible-author-with-talents-far-beyond-their-inferior-brains, but these people are not so young; 13? 14? What happens to them?
reading that made me terribly confused. i had to read some sentences more than once to understand what they were trying to say.
i don't understand how anyone would be able to stand that :|
<p>This is why I&;m very picky about who I RP with. it&;s very tempting to go overboard with the descriptive purple prose.</p>
<p>Also, whoever wrote that was shooting themselves in the foot when they chose to do it in first person. It&;s not necessary to emphasise the colours and descriptions of someone&;s physical attributes every time you mention them; it sounds even more daft when it&;s in first person.
THIS
:dmg:light:
:dmg🔥
LOL, tossing their brains? That would explain some of the writing :D
...also, nares is a technical term for hawk nostrils, not horses, and wtf is wrong with just saying fucking nostrils? Or legs?
I'm not an incredible brilliant writer either, but I AM a competent one. People can make sense of what I write.
Golden rule of writing: KEEP IT SIMPLE.
~ wet and wild ~
...pfft, HAWK nostrils? Oh my god. I have to inform my friend of that. XD
That site has been made private now, apparently. They have 19 members. I can just see the problem growing from the isolation. Oh god.
My one lapse into so called wolf-speak is occasionally using the phrase "ivory daggers" in place of fangs. And since I'm such a biology nut I'll sometimes start spurting out scientific names, especially during fight sequences, when I want to be specific about the injuries being given/taken. And yet people say I'm a good writer.....is extremely critical of her own work
I hate people who seem the think that you need to abuse purple prose in order to be considered literate. There's a big difference between painting a picture with words and using so many metaphors that the reader can't tell what the hell your talking about. I mean, seriously, columns? Is this a horse or a piece of Greek architecture? :P
The funniest thing is when these supposedly hyper literate individuals make a major screw-up in their posts (Calling kittens 'kits' seems to be a popular one.). You try to politely point this out, and they attack you like a pack of rabid dogs. Excuse me for trying to give you a bit of education.
There's lots of those kinds on Furcadia, especially Feral/Quad rpers.
So much so that their April fool's joke makes fun of them.
"The odds of finding out everything that's actually going on in the universe is so vastly remote that the best thing you can do is say 'hang the sense of it' and keep yourself busy."
- Slartibartfast, HGTTG.
I wish I knew what was going through people's minds when they decided columns was an acceptable term for legs. It puts all sorts of funny images in my head, like horses walking stiffly because their legs have been turned into those classic columns in Greece. Someone take the thesaurus away from them!
"Also my mum told me not to tell anyone my name unless someone asks me to tell them what my name is."
she told me to tell them that i can only tell them if they ask me to tell them because they want me to tell them but mum said not to tell them UNLESS they ask me to tell them because they wanted me and only me to tell them even though mum told me not to specifically tell them unless they asked me to tell them!
My personal favorite is when wolf roleplayers call their female character a fae.
OH GOD WOLFSPEAK HAHAHA
I have been away from public roleplaying so long I'd forgotten all about it. My gosh wow.
One of my biggest pet peeves is describing your character down to the last toenail. That's just egotism! By all means, come back to the appearance once in a while, but ... don't use the word brown three times in a sentence, dear lord. I think getting across the impression a character makes is much more important than how they actually look. How often do published authors let you know what color the main character's eyes or hair are, anyway?
lolol. xDD These are some of the reasons I HATE public rping. :[ My biggest peeve is when people just type a whole post like this. "I then walked over to the tree. I then looked up at it. I then walked away. I then was thinking about how tall aforementioned tree was. I then continued to prance in the snow with my footsies sting from the coldededed. I then layed down. I then was cold." likewat. .n.
{ allie }
Oh Lordy. DB
Now I remember why I haven't RP'd for the past year.
I distinctly recall seeing instances of people referring to a head as a "wedge" and calling a male character a "brute."
WHY.
Do what I do. Make the required literacy high.
3-5 paragraphs scares most people like that off.
Ah man, I have never RPed in my life, but i can already see the ridicularity in those statements :x
(Oh, and i Google searched ridicularity to actually check if its a real word, it is xD)
My god, this thread sure does bring back memories. XD!
Orbs, audits, tassels, and mitts and other nonsense. o_x
EXPLOSIVE FILLY you know I can just picture a horse spontaneously combusting midway through a roleplay.
AND ORBS. ORBS. I can't take anything seriously if the person describes their character using the word "orbs."
and lolwhat wedge head
