[mariah?!]

amen, yo. i write and spell 10x better than both my peers and family and friends. bchan's initial comment about not caring about spelling is a great representation of why the majority of today's generation [and perhaps even the ones before it] are illiterate.

today's generation: what with spellcheck and autocorrect, who needs to know how to spell?


previous generation: booksmarts will get you nowhere in this world. manual labor, getting your hands dirty? that's what pays off.

hell, my parents are of that last opinion there, so you can imagine how they feel about my aspiring to be a writer. in public school, i was bullied for reading books and writing in my journal.

good grammar is the difference between knowing you're shit and your shit.

as for the powerplaying issue, i'm a big enough girl to politely [ahurr] remind whoever i'm roleplaying with who's playing who. apparently i'm an arrogant nitch, but hey, honesty's a virtue, yo.