Apparently no. You girls are always perfect. I was being serious you know :!:
I love girls you fluffy perfect creatures you!
I stand by my remark tho! :evil:

Look at my cat if you feel ANGRY!

I know you were being serious, you fluffy cat person, you, but what is there to add ? It's part of his personnality, he's also quite incapable of writing serious efficient wizards, so well, stick to what you're best at, as they say... I must say that I hadn't noticed really, some of the females are quite ridiculous, though, like Christine in maskerade, or the teen witches in the Tiffany series, or in a couple of the witch books, can't remember which ones. Ok, they're not necessarily the main characters of the book, but still, they're there...

And the girls in the Regiment got the cloths off of...

The cat is cute. The 'u' is not. Keep the cat, but please not the 'u'.

Pedantism taken too far?

(I think I'm going to put this explanation in a text file for future use - I seem to be typing it so often!)

This is not pedantism - because we have so many members of the board for whom English is not their first language (or even second etc.) we want to maintain a reasonable standard of English for their benefit - this is why we do not want l33t-speak or other internet abbreviations - and phonetic abbreviations can be very confusing.

Ok sorry :heart:

english isn't my second or even tenth language but I think that by watching TV and reading books in english there really should be no problem about such things...although I must admit it bothers me too, the l33t talk it's kinda disturbing

p.s.
monstrous regiment was the worst DW book in my opinion simply because of this joke taken too far...just to get back on the topic

Sure, using "u" isn't that confusing, but the boundary has to be set somewhere, this was a friendly piece of advice, no-one has yet been shot for a "u"... (well, actually about 20 "u" prisoners get shot every day, but Garner hushes it up...)

If you dont tell someone for a small thing like that, they may think it's ok and go on to whole posts full of "OMG WTF u R such a g33k !"... Admittedly everyone wouldn't necessarily go that far, but it's worth telling people just in case. And also, as a community that focuses on written works, good writing is appreciated, although of course genuine mistakes due to dyslexia or english-as-an-Nth-language are fine...

Should that not be pedantry?

This actually made me laugh out loud as I read it in class (not good since I'm supposed to be researching buddhism!) which shows that I'm the sort of person who loved Lynn Truss' book "Eats, Shoots, And Leaves". Sad really.

ome wtf r u R thinkin of? how do u b so stoopid? l33t talk rox and all your code r belong to us. yeah...or something...

*sprinkles napalm onto tanatie*




Oh wait, you were joking. Ah well, too late now.