RL Quirks

[Deafinition]

It isn't a quirk... well maybe it is now because I refuse to correct it when I see it, but when I start a sentence capitalizing, my pinky never leaves the shift key in time and I usually end up capitalizing the first two letters of a word. It happens more frequently when I'm talking on instant messengers and I just can't be assed to correct it anymore.

[LemomBubble]

Oh man, I know this girl who had the worst "quirk" if you want to call it that. Every letter that dropped down (y, p, j, q) she would replace with 2 q's and everything was in txt language. It made things she wrote pretty much unreadable.

[curiousTerminal]

o man, i kno this qqrl who had the wrst qqurk if u want 2 cll it that evrqq ltter that droqqqqed dwn qq qq qq qq she wuld reqqlace with 2 qqs & everqqthing was in txt lanqquaqqe it made thinqqs she wrote qqrettqq much unreadable

Damn, son, that's annoying.

[Basil]

So I am the worst at cussing. Like, I stub my toe. I shout "FUUUUUUUUDGE!!" and then I auto correct myself "wait shoot i mean fuck, dang"
Also I replace the word shit with schnapps. Bitch is now biptch.
Most people think it's cute but I hate it.

Also, I pronounce "um" as "ahm" and "and" is "ahnd" and I slip into accents.
"Er" is my unofficial catchphrase, according to my friends.
If it isn't obvious by now I am the worst at speaking.

[Super_lightning_wolf]

I put "essentially" EVERYWHERE, and I almost never say "with", but I instead say "w/". A friend also replaced his o's w/ 0's.

[curiousTerminal]

If it isn't obvious by now I am the worst at speaking.

Oh, I can top that.
I lived on the West Side of Maryland until I was 8.
I now live on the East.
The two have distinctive accents, but you won't notice unless you spend a LOT of time in either place for a while.
Both accents are now currently warring for my tongue. I can't go a sentence without stumbling over something or pronouncing it funny.
College presentations are going to be HELL.

[Coasterman29]

Oh my fucking god I twitch a LOT.

[ragmaan]

I use the word marginal(ly) very often. Very. Often.

[Basil]

If it isn't obvious by now I am the worst at speaking.

Oh, I can top that.
I lived on the West Side of Maryland until I was 8.
I now live on the East.
The two have distinctive accents, but you won't notice unless you spend a LOT of time in either place for a while.
Both accents are now currently warring for my tongue. I can't go a sentence without stumbling over something or pronouncing it funny.
College presentations are going to be HELL.

Oh my god.
Well cT, you have obviously won the title of "Shittiest Speaker, or Speaker of The Vast Gdfunb"
Wear your title with all the pride you can muster.

[Coasterman29]

I say simply and pretty much a LOT.

One of my aunts taught me to be able to make people take me seriously.
It has worn off..

[Hanky Panky]

I'm either the best or the worst at sarcasm. Because I do it so deadpan, people actually take me seriously. It's led to a lot of my friends going WHAT THE FUUUUUUUCK.

[anacreon]

In person i am loud...in fact loud enough that my friends constantly tell me to lower my voice volume.

I am pretty much karkat minus all the swearing and anger i guess xD.

[PaperHelmet]

When IMing its usually just me omitting punctuation that should be there unless I feel like it. Or to use it to break sentences. Commas are fine, though

I also knew this one dude who was missing the O key on his keyboard so he replaced it with 0s, pretty much making him legit Aradia.

[GenetiXientist]

IRL, I curse a fair amount. Usually in a phrase though.

When typing, I sometimes try to use proper grammar, but, when excited, I will often leave capital letters and punctuation out.

I also forget to capitalize "I" fairly often.

I type somewhat fast, so I will, every so often, capitalize the first two letters of a word.

I sometimes type dyslexically; it happens too often to be an accident, but too rarely to be actual dyslexia.

I tend to keep adding on to my thoughts and statements, using words such as "also" multiple times, sometimes twice in a row (eg. alsoalso.)

I use "er" to express hesitation or the sense that I just walked into something I don't understand (I can't remember the word for the latter.)

[Nardacci]

Uh, I kinda type like I talk, & I often use emotes or actions [defined by asterisks] but I don't really do anything fun with the text. : / *shrug*
When I hand- write things though, I use all kinds of self- defined shorthand.

[Wiwaxia]

When exasperated, but not exceptionally angry or panicked, I will often use the phrase "shitty shit on a shitstick".

[hypertechHumanoid]

hh.State("I am unable to properly pronounce the word \"antibiotics\" ");
hh.State("It always comes out \"auntie-bee-otics\" ");

hh.State("I also begin giggling uncontrollably when accused of something I didn't do, if the \"crime\" is even remotely amusing");

[MathGirl277]

I stupidly repeat myself.

I may be saying something, and then I get off topic, and a few minutes later, I stupidly repeat myself.

[bibliomaniac]

I use an insane amount of modifiers...and ellipses. And parenthetical asides. And 'um' or variants, to the extent that I write 'um' in a bunch of school assignments. Usually the first time I even notice it is when my teachers cross it out.
Also, I don't swear. Instead, I use really strange, convoluted replacement expletives. Many of them involve food, like "oh, fudgemuffins"; others are just random sounds, like "fleeping". I also say "a pox on that" frequently.
And whenever I'm listening to music I subconsciously play an approximation of the tune on what is basically an imaginary piano. Like, my hand will be down by my sides, but my fingers will be wiggling around. I'm guessing it looks kind of strange...

[simon.clarkstone]

For a while a few yearf ago I would type with all my S'f fwitched with f because that'f how they ufed to print it. It doefn't work so well on computerf because the characterf are so clearly differentiated, but they ufed to be fimilar looking and ocaffionally interchangeable

Not quite. The letter s came in two forms: the short s and the long s (U+017F: ſ), with complex, non-standardised rules on when to use the two forms. The latter resembles an f, but it is not one; it doesn't always have a stroke even.

I actually just noticed that the only thing that could be considered a quirk about my typing is the fact that I don't have a quirk. Even in texts and chatrooms I keep my grammar and spelling as accurate as possible.

The closest to an actual quirk I have seen IRL is my mother's habit of writing 3-5 sentences before hitting enter.

Also some guy on TDWTF forums that signs every post, even 1-word ones, with "Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko".

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Related: Blakeyrat there is basically Karkat

I thought this thread was stupid at first but then I thought about it and I realized I never end my sentences with a period if there's a line break next

FUCK I AM A LIVING FANTROLL

Nah, that is a legitimate way of typing; it just isn't one that happened to become standard at any time over the past few centuries. I​Don't​Know​If​There​Are​Any​Natura l​Writing​Systems​In​The​World​That​ Use​Something​Like​Camel​Casing​In​Pla ce​Of​Inter​Word​Gaps,​But​I​Wouldn' t​Be​Surprised​If​There​Were. (Try resizing your browser window and notice how that text wraps; I have placed invisible word breaks (id est U+200B) throughout.) (Oh wait, the forum buggered it up.)

(Programmers use camelCasing all the time in work, to the point that text-editor-designed-for-programming-(exempli gratia Eclipse)s' support of ctrl+left/right to move by words counts camelCase boundaries as actual boundaries. In chat I consistently plink any URIs I type, and recently developed the apparently-independent-from-HomeStuck habit of writing/saying "exempli gratia" and "id est" in full. Also I like to use semicolons, and abuse the recursive nature of grammar, attempting to clarify the structure by hyphenating long adjectival/adverbial phrases. (I had/have an non-realtime RP character whose native language is not a human one, and so whose writing was almost perfectly grammatical but also difficult to understand due knowing the rules of grammar but not its standard usage, and confusing words the meanings of which the difference between is understood by English-readers but difficult to articulate.)

(Hang on... a non-human character from another universe bothering people over the Internet? I was doing the Homestuck troll thing before there was Homestuck!)

!_#@\/-61~_|{]\[0Wn-2-#4v3_$e\/r3_477A|<2_0v_1337-0Ka$!oN4Ly_+wO but only for very brief passages. I have a dodgy D and O key on my keyboard at work which each have phases of non-working and double-typing.

Something I have not seen people other than me do is have two different conversations with one person at the same time in one IM window. Or occasionally IRL. Also IRL, I like to turn any string of suitable dental consonants into a rolled R, exempli gratia in "What did it do?" or "I dunno.".

One genuinely useful formation that few people know about is Unix-style "s/foo/bar/" expressions, which denote the replacement of "foo" with "bar". They're quite versatile.

I tend to use terms such as whither/thither/hither, whence/thence/hence, wherefore/therefore/herefore, and other such permutations of the proximal and distal and indefinite pronouns.

Ditto. They're awesome and need bringing back.

Okay, last quirk to note for now: I put two spaces after colons and full stops. Even though I know one of the spaces will be eaten up by the forum (and most other places), I cannot not put two spaces after a colon, and can only avoid two spaces after a full stop if it is the last punctuation of a paragraph.

Ditto for the full stops, but not after a colon.

When talking, I will sometimes say "dot dot dot" or "ellipsis" aloud.

Ditto. Works well with the rolling thing above .

My major in college was linguistics so occasionally I will use linguistic terminology in everyday conversation full-on knowing that the person I'm speaking to has no idea what the hell I just said. Also the blank looks I get from co-workers when I mention voiced alveolar fricatives or something along those lines are kind of amusing to me =]

Ditto, though I had a passing interest rather than formal education.

hh.State("I am unable to properly pronounce the word \"antibiotics\" ");
hh.State("It always comes out \"auntie-bee-otics\" ");

hh.State("I also begin giggling uncontrollably when accused of something I didn't do, if the \"crime\" is even remotely amusing");

I think this (and other variants in other posts by the same person) is a competitor for most annoy typing quirk ever seen on the forums (and that is coming from a person that was around during the events that lead to the "no typing quirks" rule).

[Wessolf27]

For some reason, I tend to use "Hilarious" when I describe something funny, it's kinda odd, and everyone's been pointing that out for some time.

[Miff]

Jumping in here...

Personally, I tend to use proper capitalization (worthy of a quirk on it's own it seems!) and overuse emoticons.

Part of my fantroll's quirk (for words ending with e, moving the e to before the last vowel, like 'before' becoming 'befoer') was inspired by "lolcat speak" partially, but also I had a friend who tended to type like that at one point. (The rest though I made up myself.)

Also, I know a guy who tends to type "joo" instead of "you".

[Nimz]

!_#@\/-61~_|{]\[0Wn-2-#4v3_$e\/r3_477A|<2_0v_1337-0Ka$!oN4Ly_+wO but only for very brief passages.

What is that I don't even? I have spent several minutes trying to figure out the text hidden by the jumble of crazy substitutions, and all I have been able to make out is 'leet occasionally, too'. Would you mind doing a s/leetspeak/plaintext/ please?

I have done the two conversations with the same person at the same time thing, but typically it will be with two chat windows. Sometimes I will then slowly migrate the second conversation into the first window, so there is briefly a situation of two conversations with one person in one chat window at the same time.

I have been known to use actions in forumspaces that do not support /me or /action. I typically denote the actions by enclosing them in a pair of asterisks and setting off the asterisks and action text in italic type: * demonstrates * quod erat demonstrandum. Technically it would probably be more proper to set off the Latin text in italic type as well: foreign words in English text have been denoted by italic type in books for a long time.

[simon.clarkstone]

!_#@\/-61~_|{]\[0Wn-2-#4v3_$e\/r3_477A|<2_0v_1337-0Ka$!oN4Ly_+wO but only for very brief passages.

What is that I don't even? I have spent several minutes trying to figure out the text hidden by the jumble of crazy substitutions, and all I have been able to make out is 'leet occasionally, too'.

"I have been known to have sever attacks of leet occasionally too".

Would you mind doing a s/leetspeak/plaintext/ please?

I have only ever seen that used for regex-based text substitution (which is what it does in the programs it comes from); it looks kinda wrong to me when used for more general transformations.

quod erat demonstrandum.

Is that how that phrase is supposed to be used? I though it was put at the conclusion of an argument.

[Nimz]

Quod erat demonstrandum = that which was to be demonstrated. As such, it is a natural argument concluder, but presumably it could be used in other circumstances? At least that is my understanding of it. I will admit to lack of linguistic finesse outside my mother tongues (English and Maths), so it may be not quite correct. On a related topic of not quite correct, I almost made a note that I knew I was abusing the s/•/•/ notation, but I opted not to because I figured it was clear from context, and it apparently was. I do know how to properly use it, and I have properly used it, but since I had no idea what went in the second argument, the vaguer, sloppier, generaler form seemed more good. >_> I appreciate the translation, though.

I was going to append another quirk in an edit to my last post, but you gave me something to respond to, so I may as well append it here instead of editing it in there. I have a fair amount of shorthand that I use when I take class notes. It is not a frequent occurrence that I take class notes, but I have compassion for the one who would try to read them.

s/with respect to/wo./ (without is s with an overbar). WLOG for without loss of generality annoys me, so I will write WOLOG instead, though SLOG would probably be more consistent... I think I will do that now. s/the following are equivalent/TFAE/. Gotta love TFAEs. s/measurable/meas'le/ (no smallpox in my notes), s/integrable/int'le/, s/differentiable/diff'le/, other assorted 'le constructions. My notes also tend to be colour coded, though the coding is inconsistent at best.