Re: Please to be writing tl;dr as a reply to my OP
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i thought the "d" was for "don't" not "didn't." that's a very big difference in meaning there. "too long; don't read" would mean "i read it and its not very good, and certainly not enjoyable enough to justify the length, so don't make the same mistake that i made, save yourself from wasting your time and do not read this extremely long post that does not have value to justify its excessive wordiness." whereas if it meant "too long; didn't read," that would just mean, "i saw that the post was very long, and therefore i did not read it because i just did not want to make that kind of committment to reading something that long, and thus i have no idea what the post said because of course i did not read it, and also in the future you should consider making shorter posts because if your posts are going to be this long then of course i'm not going to be reading them because i just can not be bothered to be reading posts that are this long." but then again it could also i mean, "i started to read this and indeed i would have finished it if it had motivated me to continue reading the post, but the first few lines just did not grab me enough to make me continue to read such a long post, and therefore i aborted the mission and did not continue reading this post to its conclusion, so if there was interesting stuff later on, i of course missed it because the first part just did not make it seem as if this post would be rewarding enough to motivate me to keep reading." as a community here we need to clarify exactly what we mean with little abbreviations like these because we use them very frequently and therefore some people may be misinturprating what is being said over and over again and come to have an idea of things being significatnly different than they actualy are, ldo.
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More of this ^^^^^^^^^ BBV4L and less poop please.
Such a shame to see a quality response like this buried in a "meh" thread.
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07-04-2007, 11:15 AM
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