[Glice]

I've been thinking about this real life versus forum/ internet life thing a lot lately. I have a general sense that the physical, moving and breathing self isn't necessarily the total self. I write a lot, and I'm fascinated with how people represent themselves in writing; even if they choose to represent a fake (which is actually a negatively-idealised) version of themselves, the mode is still writing, and how one writes, for a lot of people, says more about themselves than precisely what they write.

I'll take a for instance with vague particulars - the overwhelming majority of second-language English speakerwriters here write better than the glut of first-languagers. While I hold a lot of stock with the notion of sociolect, or idiomaticisms [sic], it's always apparent when someone lacks the pride to write well - perhaps it's the awareness of English being a second-language for some that prevents this?

Generally, I don't expect too much of the internet. Sleep with a dog, rise full of fleas. If it's a bad thing, it's because I'm wasting my time, but I don't believe in apologising for what one does compulsively - this says a lot about a person, which is why this forum is nothing like a broad cross-section of the sorts of people who like SY - if you hate yourself for posting, that's really something you need to look at in yourself.

What I like about this forum is that there's a few posters who are capable of dipping from serious comment [je suis un prick] to retarded, asinine horsebollocks at the flick of a mouse.