A Number Of Rants

[rodo]

I guess all the people mentioned below can recognise themselves. Should I lock it?

• If you're asking for a fandom-specific translated German term and you've only read the English version, it might help if you told people what the fandom is. Otherwise, all we can answer is "Well, that depends on the fandom." And before you ask: You'll most likely get the wrong answers if you tell people you want to write about a wizard called Harry. Oh, and you might want to ask people who actually read the books in German. Yes, you know they exist. I read the thread where you talked to them.


• No, I won't help you do your homework because you're too lazy to do it yourself. If you don't understand what your prof is talking about, maybe you should listen more carefully and maybe read wikipedia instead of asking random people on the internet. Who won't give you helpful answers anyway, because hardly anyone among us studied grammar. PS: please stop insisting you don't write Sues. You're only making it worse.


• Please, stop complaining about "slash" as a word having nothing to do with "gay". Not all the characters in slash are gay. And there's a reason for it not being a transparent term. It's not our job to do what you want us to do anyway. I love my non-transparent fanspeak terms, okay?


• Writing gen is neither edgy nor revolutionary. It's been done for ages. So stop feeling superior to all the het and slash writers because you think it didn't really exist before you came along.


• Look, you're writing a Facharbeit for school, you should at least try to listen to people when they tell you that your poll sucks because they didn't have enough choices. Yes, some of us write poems and fanfiction and original stories and short stories and non-fiction. If you limit the choices for the question "What do you write" to three, you won't get the answers you're looking for. You should either increase the number of choices or phrase the question differently. And that was just the first question.


• When you write random two-word-PM to a girl complementing her for her choice of userpic ("nice picture"), that is weird, at least to some. It gets weirder when the last interaction you two had was a discussion about feminism and women in which you proved to be an ignorant prick. When said girl points that out to you, you might want to think instead of flounce.


• And while we're at it: If you ask a question for research, name time period, place and situation. Yes, even for questions regarding "How long can a character survive with an untreated bullet wound in the belly?"

Comments

[blnchflr]

Lol! Uhm, I ask people on the internets things all the time, to save myself the work - I'm currently trying to get someone to tell me which printer/scanner to buy, because I don't know anything about it, myself, and considering how little I print, it just seems like way too much work to study printers enough to be able to make an informed choice. I'd be much easier if I could get someone to tell me, "Here. Buy this. It's cheap, it'll do what you want in a reasonable quality, ink cartridges aren't ridiculously expensive, and yes, it'll work ootb in Ubuntu (or close enough)", *sigh*.

[rodo]

Asking things is totally fine, especially when you tried and failed to find something yourself. Or if it's small things. little_details and the like are great.

Hey, would you all explain to me every grammatical term ever used to describe German grammar and German grammar itself, plz? I'm studying the subject in university and don't understand a thing! (Question paraphrased ;)

That? Not so much. I am one of the few people who actually read a grammar (all 628 pages), and that was just one. These person probably doesn't even realise that there are different grammars and different grammatical terms and that it's virtually impossible to have ten specialists agree on something "simple" like the definition of "sentence".

And some people are just so incredibly dumb when asking. A few years on little_details have taught me that. And then I ran into a few people lately ... One person was asking about how long a person can spend in prison at maximum, prison rules what prisons look like, how to escape etc. She received tons of answers before I finally asked her to specify. About 1950 in Great Britain. Of course that meant nobody had a clue.

[eumelkeks]

Impressive rants! I don't recognise any of these people, which means a) I'm awesome :p b) it's not all about me *gasps* and c) we don't have many common friends.

[rodo]

No, DW and LJ as a system tends to filter out most of the stupid. It's just too complicated.

And these are actually people from a certain German fanfiction website.

And I have to admit #1 isn't that bad most of the time. I guess she left her brain at home today.

[eumelkeks]

No, DW and LJ as a system tends to filter out most of the stupid. It's just too complicated.

LOL, you may be right about that. Though there is delicious wank to be had in comms and such.

[rodo]

Sure, but we never achieved the artful interpretation of language present in youtube comments, for one. And not mentioning the setting when researching is mostly an American thing.

[fibrizo]

"Please, stop complaining about "slash" as a word having nothing to do with "gay". Not all the characters in slash are gay. And there's a reason for it not being a transparent term. It's not our job to do what you want us to do anyway. I love my non-transparent fanspeak terms, okay?"

word!

das mit der facharbeit und den Hausaufgaben ist auch goldig. O-o

[rodo]

Ja. Ich sage es der Person jedes Mal, wenn sie sich über "Slash" als Begriff aufregt, und das war jetzt das vierte Mal, so langsam reicht es mir. *seufz*

[fibrizo]

okay, manche wollen es nicht verstehen scheint mir. XD

ich hätte beim zweiten Mal schon aufgegeben. Respekt! Oô

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

Look, you're writing a Facharbeit for school, you should at least try to listen to people when they tell you that your poll sucks because they didn't have enough choices.

There are still people who reply to these polls?!? I haven't seen a single one that didn't suck a lot.

[rodo]

I'm trying to be nice, I really am, but they generally do suck. These people don't understand that you have to put some thought into a poll for a quasi-scientific purpose.