This isn't Twitter. Pack it in with the @, if you'd be so kind

[Habbibu]

Have noticed this lately - and ToadintheHole, I'm going to apologise straight off, because you've just done it to my name, but it's not an attack on you, it's been bugging me for days - lots of @username when addressing someone.

Now, I'm assuming that this has some technical necessity on Twitter (don't touch the stuff, myself), but what's wrong with just username, without the @. If you say my name, I know you're addressing me. I really do.

@Habbibu,

I agree. On mn it's a pointless extra character. I thought twitterers hated those.

It's the internet, bad grammar and daft text speak are to be expected.

This isn't the Internet though. It's MN. Somebody has to maintain standards.

This isn't the internet? How did I get to this website then?

showfhands is right

techlovingdad, now come on tsk tsk

not a harvard referenced essay its online blethering. more relaxed syntax,composition and rules.it isnt work afterall. this is just another permutation of the arsey pedants who want it all just so

unclench

miserable @fecker

@ShowofHands

This is for you:

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Trinity, I think your post is lacking spelling and grammar.

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How funny - the link I've posted is invisible - twice!!!

Try this

Or...
"If you're not arguing on the internet, your computer is broken."

I agree, but come on over to Twitter, it's fun there.

And while we're on it, stop copying other people's posts into your own. I KNOW it makes it easier to follow what's going on, but I don't like it.

And, I don't know how many times I have to say this: lol is NOT a punctuation mark.

[grumpy]

oooh, invisible link. Did it fall through the MN hole?

heheheheh habbibu. i hear ya.

Twitter rocks, I get so much news there instead of trawling through many different sites.

lol.

twitter beats mn hands down atm im afraid

Not sure about the MN hole, but I seem to have perfected the art of posting in white.

I judge all lollers. They can lol off.

I may or may not have that picture as my netbook wallpaper...

This is not the Internet insofar as we're not just part of a homogeneous lump. We have a shared vernacular already, we don't need to be infected by Twitterisms.

Habbibu you are quite right. And so is everyone who agrees with you.

Them what doesn't can f@rk off.

But isn't MN open and non-judgmental to all?
If certain speech / typing usages (not a word) are frowned upon, aren't you in danger of pushing people away? not you personally, obviously.

I'm not that bothered, to be honest, just interested.

conversely on twitter i find the use of dh dd ds CRINGEY

Open and non-judgmental?

You haven't been here long, have you??

Haha SM - have you seen how much I wind up the pedants? I just don't get why it's necessary here - it's more work, not less. A whole extra 2 keys to press. Who has the energy?