:)

[farla]

This is extremely satisfying, I should have thought of this years ago.

Edit: Oh my god this is so much fun. From now on all capitalization arguments will be done entirely through the medium of copy-paste and emoticons.

Comments

[razorleaf.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that guy is back again. I figured we'd gotten rid of his self-important ass. :)

[farla.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised it took this long, myself. The month's almost over.

[banzaisebastian.livejournal.com]

It's kinda cute how he uses the term "American" as an insult when his e-wife is from the States. A bit nineteenth-century much?

'Course, this might sound like I'm missing the point, but mostly, I'm just here to say it's practically an internet law that the first person to insult the opponent on the basis of something completely unrelated is also usually the one who auto-loses the argument. Also that Australians are just as illiterate as we are and that his argument about how people are more used to seeing capitals is sort of nulled by the one he made concerning accents, what with the fact that people are just as used to seeing the word "Pokemon" as they are "Pokémon" and all. Besides, maybe I'm not reading his post correctly, but what else would a writer be talking about if they wrote "charizard"? I'm really curious to know what kinds of mental images pop up in the minds of readers other than an orange, winged dragon with a flame on its tail and the ability to light you on fire.

[banzaisebastian.livejournal.com]

Just, you know, trying to grasp that "your readers might misunderstand" argument there because I think it's cute. That and I would love to hear some lulzy speculations on what else a charizard would be.

[farla.livejournal.com]

While I think he's sincere about believing the words should be capitalized, I don't think any of his individual arguments have meaning beyond being different phrasings of "I AM YELLING LOUDLY WHILE MALE NOW DO WHAT I SAY COW".

[(Anonymous)]

not that this is relevant to the argument at hand, but i kind of hope his "wife"'s profile is out of date when it lists her age as fifteen

[farla.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure he's a kid too.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

And already mansplaining. D:

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

"That's a Farla" vs. "That's a farla"

Wait. Hold up. There's a whole species of farlas?

BRB, seceding from humanity. :D

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

I can help but read that in an Italian accent: "That's-a Farla!"

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

This thread is always amazing. "Everyone should have their own grammar rules!"

I don't know if these people are young and have not developed the ability to think abstractly or are just stupid, but it befuddles me that all of them find it so hard to differentiate between "real world where Pokemon is a copyrighted thing" and "literary world where these copyrights do not exist." That's the real crux of the argument here... that they aren't able to wrap their minds around that concept.

[farla.livejournal.com]

You give them too much credit. The crux of their argument is that they're infallible.

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

This is fun.

[farla.livejournal.com]

^^ ! :) :D

Or, you are far more patient than I am. (I get the weird sense they haven't even figured out what I'm doing yet.)

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

Aron is a pretty legit troll.

[farla.livejournal.com]

With the newest development I think we can upgrade to batshit.

Thank god he's got me blocked. I really hate when they decide they're my friend.

[razorleaf.livejournal.com]

Is this a covert way of telling us we should block you and stop commenting on your entries? Because you know we will!

Eh, I mean... :D :D XD

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

We're a sewing circle now. I liked it better when we we all minions of each other.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Well, minions is gender neutral, and that would mean they weren't reminding us of how we lack a dick and need to listen to theirs.

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting assumption considering how gender-neutral my name is. Usually I'm a victim of the "no girls on the interwebs" rule, but the rule here seems to be "anyone who disagrees with me is a girl."

[farla.livejournal.com]

That is interesting. Either they assumed you were male but effectively dickless due to not ordering the rest of us around enough and deserving of mocking based on this, or they can't even imagine a guy not ordering us around.

Alternatively, they refer to anyone who disagrees with them as feminine, since it's an insult either way.

Not sure which is the most depressing option, really.