Once I've spoken to real-life friends online as well, I usually notice huge discrepancies - people come across as angrier online, edgier, more pretentious. (I'd imagine this is very true of me, as well.) And people that I know in real life, I tend not to like online.
The opposite is, thankfully, not true.
I'm not quite sure how that factors in to your post, but I felt it did. So, yes. I have spoken.
I think it does factor into the post; it's the part of personality that's lost or flattened in translation. Oddly enough, I think I probably come across as angrier off-line than online, but I'm told that your case is the more common one.
I tend to 'hear' my real life friends when I read their posts, so the change in their voices from spoken word to clear text goes over my head.
Otoh, when I've spent a long, long time in email exchanges, I can find accents disconcerting because I a) love the sound of them and b) never read written words as if they were accented, unless they're spelled in a way that forces that reading.
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Date: 2004-12-16 01:00 am (UTC)The opposite is, thankfully, not true.
I'm not quite sure how that factors in to your post, but I felt it did. So, yes. I have spoken.
I think it does factor into the post; it's the part of personality that's lost or flattened in translation. Oddly enough, I think I probably come across as angrier off-line than online, but I'm told that your case is the more common one.
I tend to 'hear' my real life friends when I read their posts, so the change in their voices from spoken word to clear text goes over my head.
Otoh, when I've spent a long, long time in email exchanges, I can find accents disconcerting because I a) love the sound of them and b) never read written words as if they were accented, unless they're spelled in a way that forces that reading.