what other kinds of conversational innovations have you noticed in the Chatterbox?

A license to kill talk about yourself in the third person:

/me is going to lunch

Of course, if Hardburn were to talk about himself in the third person normally, many of Hardburn's freinds would no doubt shove one of Hardburn's dirty old socks down Hardburn's esophagus. This goes doubly when Hardburn fails to use personal pronouns.

"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

In reply to Re: Chatterbox Linguistics by hardburn
in thread Chatterbox Linguistics by jZed

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