I'd like to discourage...

[Delstro]

I have no problem with someone using Lt or Sgt, I will read it as if the character is saying the full word, not the individiual letters like s-g-t. They are both common shorthand for the full rank anyway. Who really would say I saw 'L-t Jones sleeping with the S-g-t Whites wife.'? Not me. If I am feeling lazy or am tired, I'm going to shorthand the shit out of either and both. Lie-u-ten-ant and sarge-ant.
I don't like Merc, because phonetically, it sounds more like shorthand for merchant than it would be for a word like mercenary. Quite frankly however, I don't care if you use merc. I will look at how your context weighs in on the current topic and decide if it makes more sense as a merchant or mercenary. I've always liked sell-sword more than mercenary anyway. Sell sword shows that the person is only capable of selling a sword, while mercenary almost sounds like it has mercy in it. I don't know about you, but I am not going to pay extra for mercy.

[brytta.leofa]

The tall, muscular man says, in sirihish:
      "..."

That breaks my immersion so hard. So hard, people. Please don't.

Ergh. I'm guilty of this. Didn't realize that everybody else was doing it, too.

[Rhyden]

Using abbreviations such as LT, SGT, even Merc which I see a lot. 99% of the population is illiterate and when I hear these abbreviations I cringe at my keyboard, attempt to question the person IC and act illiterate yet they say ICly it's just an abbreviation. This is a pet-peeve of mine.

I remember a Bynner who refused to say anything but "the Lt."

I kept asking her what the hell an "eltee" was.

[Ocotillo]

I'd like to discourage wireless internet sucking.

[LauraMars]

The tall, muscular man says, in sirihish:
      "..."

To me it just seems like someone opening their mouth and nothing coming out but a squeak.  It doesn't bother me - but then, I've always been an underground supporter of unconventional behavior.

[tortall]

I've always imagined Sirihish to be like Arabic.  A slightly rough, vowel-heavy language.  I'd imagine the North and the South have very strong accents and possibly differing dialects.

Oddly enough, I've used arabic-based words as bendune. :-D

[jhunter]

The tall, muscular man says, in sirihish:
      "..."

To me it just seems like someone opening their mouth and nothing coming out but a squeak.  It doesn't bother me - but then, I've always been an underground supporter of unconventional behavior.

Yeah, sometimes I think that gets the point across better than simply emoting or actually typing out words.

[Cerelum]

The tall, muscular man says, in sirihish:
      "..."

To me it just seems like someone opening their mouth and nothing coming out but a squeak.  It doesn't bother me - but then, I've always been an underground supporter of unconventional behavior.

Yeah, sometimes I think that gets the point across better than simply emoting or actually typing out words.

I personally think they should just do EMOTE opens his mouth to say something but just closes it, looking thoughtful.

The ... is really ooc, like typing BRB I gotta go BIO

[FantasyWriter]

The tall, muscular man says, in sirihish:
      "..."

To me it just seems like someone opening their mouth and nothing coming out but a squeak.  It doesn't bother me - but then, I've always been an underground supporter of unconventional behavior.

Yeah, sometimes I think that gets the point across better than simply emoting or actually typing out words.

I agree... I like it.

[Niamh]

I'd like to discourage people from feeling that they have to "win" at Armageddon.  Not everything is going to go your way, and sometimes that makes for the most fun roleplay.

[Jdr]

I'd like to discourage people from feeling that they have to "win" at Armageddon.  Not everything is going to go your way, and sometimes that makes for the most fun roleplay.

This. Losing is Fun.

But sometimes winning would also be nice.

[FantasyWriter]

I'd like to discourage people from feeling that they have to "win" at Armageddon.  Not everything is going to go your way, and sometimes that makes for the most fun roleplay.

This. Losing is Fun.

One of the reasons I stored my most long lived character is that he kept winning... at everything.  At least in his and my eyes.

[jcljules]

Yeah, winning isn't all its cracked up to be. You win and then you realize that you can't win anything else. And then you're bored. The more difficult you make things for yourself, the more fun you'll have, in my opinion.

[jhunter]

The tall, muscular man says, in sirihish:
     "..."

To me it just seems like someone opening their mouth and nothing coming out but a squeak.  It doesn't bother me - but then, I've always been an underground supporter of unconventional behavior.

Yeah, sometimes I think that gets the point across better than simply emoting or actually typing out words.

I personally think they should just do EMOTE opens his mouth to say something but just closes it, looking thoughtful.

The ... is really ooc, like typing BRB I gotta go BIO

I guess I don't get it. How exactly is it OOC? To me, it's the same -exact- thing as "emote opens his mouth but nothing comes out" or "emote opens is mouth but only an unintelligable sound comes out."

[Gimfalisette]

The emote doesn't break my immersion, but the "..." with nothing else does. If you want to attach an emote TO the "..." then that's probably much better. But by itself with no emote, to me, it breaks immersion. And I would prefer not to get my immersion broken.

[jhunter]

That's not my question. My question is: "Is it one really correct/incorrect vs. the other?"

[Gimfalisette]

Technically speaking, "..." is not something that can be said. You can't utter that. An ellipsis is to be used to indicate an omission or pause between words, in writing; this is not a pause, it's an absence. So yes, it's OOC in that way.

[jhunter]

I've seen it used in books before. I can't think of exactly where at the moment and I would like to think that it isn't as common as it seems to be if it's incorrect usage. Anyone else want to chime in on it who might know better than us?

[Synthesis]

Technically speaking, "..." is not something that can be said. You can't utter that. An ellipsis is to be used to indicate an omission or pause between words, in writing; this is not a pause, it's an absence. So yes, it's OOC in that way.

Technically speaking, you'll get over it.

[Rhyden]

I have to agree with Gimf.

I would prefer

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Speechless and slack-jawed, the tall, muscular man says, in sirihish:
  "..."
to

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The tall, muscular man says, in sirihish:
  "..."

[Medena]

The first few times I saw

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The tall, muscular man says, in sirihish:
  "..."

I stared at the monitor and thought "Huh? Why would someone do that?".  In short, it conveyed no meaning whatever to me and, in fact, I wondered if it were a typo.  Now I know it is deliberate but it still does not convey anything to me.

IMO it's about the same as

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The tall, muscular man says, in sirihish:
  "!!!"
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The tall, muscular man says, in sirihish:
  "?"

[X-D]

The medium is text.

I've seen it in many novels...which are also text.

Aside from thinking it is less then creative, I have no problem with the usage.

[Pale Horse]

I'll chime in and add that simply typing in:

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say ....

Would be at least a little jarring for me.

On the other hand, I'd still respond to it simply because in a text based medium and based on context in which it's found, it could mean any number of things, such as the "shock" emotion, described in an above post.

[staggerlee]

I'll chime in and add that simply typing in:

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say ....

Would be at least a little jarring for me.

On the other hand, I'd still respond to it simply because in a text based medium and based on context in which it's found, it could mean any number of things, such as the "shock" emotion, described in an above post.

You give the tall, muscular man a stack of obsidian coins.
The tall, muscular man says: "Thanks "

[Lizzie]

I don't know what kind of novels X - D has been reading, but I have never read any novel that included anything remotely resembling this:

Julia's eyes went wide with shock from Chet's accusation. In a hurt tone, she responded, "..."