We liked TV/video games/etc, but were also inclined to using good spelling/grammar when we wrote about them because we wanted to honour the things we liked.
I've been gaming since the days of the Atari and the Commodore 64, so yeah, I know how that is. At the same time, though, I had experience with text adventure games, and writing my own games and widgets in Pascal and other early programming languages, and in text games and programming, spelling and grammar can be the difference between being stuck with endless error messages and blazing through in a cloud of FUN. So there's that to be considered too. Heck, that's how come I remember the spelling for "procedure" at 9. I kept spelling it with two "e"s and the compiler would sputter over it. But I went years before learning that "counterfeit" ended f-e-i-t and not f-i-t... and as for grammar, you can't really make a good madlibs story program without knowing your grammar.
I wonder if there are any floppy backups of those old Pascal programs. If I found them, I could re-work/re-word them into Javascript or Z-Code for the heck of it. That'd be kind of fun.
I think a lot of it is just the increasing availability of the Internet-- it lost that sense of community it had in the beginning.
Yeah, I tend to refer to what happened as the "AOL Boom", because I think AOL made it easier for a lot of people to get online who might never have considered it otherwise. Not a bad thing, necessarily, but it's like the difference between a tiny private school and a huge public school, y'know?
...wait, that would explain so much about the internet. Haha, crap, why didn't I think of that sooner?
it's okay for people to call her a kid or a child, but never a little.
Cira tolerates the term "little" because she's short, and nobody's used it to dismiss her or anything like that (like, say, "Oh, you wouldn't know, you're too little"-- I HATED THAT AS A KID, RARRRR). But then she asks questions like, "Why aren't short adult people called littles too? They're as little as I am, right?" And then we all go buhhhhhh until Bao comes up with a really funny but totally bullshit answer that Nomiya will kick his ass over.
...you know, come to think of it, we're terrible bad influences. She's going to grow up believing that lawyers are born as homonculi from dented cans of pea soup or something at this rate. (Quick! We have to find an Other World where there's intelligent botulism, STAT! ;)
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Date: 2005-06-30 12:13 am (UTC)I've been gaming since the days of the Atari and the Commodore 64, so yeah, I know how that is. At the same time, though, I had experience with text adventure games, and writing my own games and widgets in Pascal and other early programming languages, and in text games and programming, spelling and grammar can be the difference between being stuck with endless error messages and blazing through in a cloud of FUN. So there's that to be considered too. Heck, that's how come I remember the spelling for "procedure" at 9. I kept spelling it with two "e"s and the compiler would sputter over it. But I went years before learning that "counterfeit" ended f-e-i-t and not f-i-t... and as for grammar, you can't really make a good madlibs story program without knowing your grammar.
I wonder if there are any floppy backups of those old Pascal programs. If I found them, I could re-work/re-word them into Javascript or Z-Code for the heck of it. That'd be kind of fun.
I think a lot of it is just the increasing availability of the Internet-- it lost that sense of community it had in the beginning.
Yeah, I tend to refer to what happened as the "AOL Boom", because I think AOL made it easier for a lot of people to get online who might never have considered it otherwise. Not a bad thing, necessarily, but it's like the difference between a tiny private school and a huge public school, y'know?
...wait, that would explain so much about the internet. Haha, crap, why didn't I think of that sooner?
it's okay for people to call her a kid or a child, but never a little.
Cira tolerates the term "little" because she's short, and nobody's used it to dismiss her or anything like that (like, say, "Oh, you wouldn't know, you're too little"-- I HATED THAT AS A KID, RARRRR). But then she asks questions like, "Why aren't short adult people called littles too? They're as little as I am, right?" And then we all go buhhhhhh until Bao comes up with a really funny but totally bullshit answer that Nomiya will kick his ass over.
...you know, come to think of it, we're terrible bad influences. She's going to grow up believing that lawyers are born as homonculi from dented cans of pea soup or something at this rate. (Quick! We have to find an Other World where there's intelligent botulism, STAT! ;)