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[blustocking]

Someone should explain to me why, if English is your primary language...if that's what you speak over half the time, and choose to write in, why write with an accent...why the dialect?

How would you all like to try and read all of my entries if they were in a Southern (American) dialect? Yeah...neither would I. (point of ref: I don't HAVE a Southern accent, but if I did...)

At any rate, I can take writing in accent and dialect from some very well-written short stories, but what the fuck?

Why?
Really...I'm curious

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_nikki/]

The only time I type with a dialect or accent is when I say words such as "hello" or "yes" mostly because saying "hello" to someone when they enter one of the chatrooms seems rather formal to me, and seeing as they're my friends, I don't want to it to sound formal..

I do use words which I don't think are very standard though, loo for instance, but loo is just such a great word :D but if it's something I don't know how it would be spelt (ie, it's only really spoken, not written down) I don't use it..

I can't really understand WHY people would type with an accent, it always comes across to me as they don't know how to use English

loo :D