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Posting Styles

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In reading the posts on all nurses over a decade since I've been a member I've noticed that there are distinct styles. Some have posts or questions which are short, sweet, and to the point. These types of posters use paragraphs with a cadence which is easily read. Others will type long run on sentences using no commas paragraphs or other types of pauses and it's almost like what we in psych call push of speech where an extremely long statement is made in one breath like they're hyperverbal and  loquacious and I guess it's because they're trying to type as fast as they have thoughts but I really don't know I can only surmise which means guess you know? Some posters find it necessary (and I am guilty of the same thing) of using parentheses instead of adjectives to (aforementionly) describe the thing (or situation or person or whatever). I can understand the use of parentheses (sometimes), however I believe (and this is only MHO) parentheses should be used sparingly like the first time I type Wrongway Regional Medical Center, I will thereafter just type (WRMC) without the parentheses except right after I type Wrongway Regional Medical Center (WRMC) < like that. Speaking of parentheses (and I know this is a long post, so please excuse me), sometimes posters will give a nurse or a patient or a nurse, doctor, ect. (not electroconvulsive therapy but Latin for "and so on") and then say right after they give the name (not their real name) like we're some sort of HIPAA Head Hunters and we're going to track down that patient, nurse or doctor ect. and say, "This member who's name I really don't know, but goes by Davey Do said your name on a post and I think that that's a HIPAA violation so I think he should get in trouble, don't you?" And what's this thing about asking questions? Why can't members just answer the OP on the information given instead of being like some sort of interrogator and drill (or grill, I get those two mixed up, like the Aztec's and the Inca's) them for the answers. It's like their not expecting some sort of Spanish Inquisition (I know- no one expects a Spanish Inquisition) and being run over by a bus, or thrown under a bus like some of my coworkers have done to me! And I'm not being a victim here even though everyone bullies me and I try my best not to wear my Little Lamb Perfume Scent #5 when I go to work on the Pack of Wolves unit (that's what we call the unit where all the older nurses work). Does anybody else have this problem?

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Whatsa Matter U - wasn't that Bullwinkle's alma mater?!? 

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On 1/24/2021 at 4:57 PM, amoLucia said:

Davey and Daisy - you 2 should

I don't like your tone.

On 1/24/2021 at 5:02 PM, amoLucia said:

Whatsa Matter U - wasn't that Bullwinkle's alma mater?!? 

I believe you are taking a serious subject lightly, you... you...

...COB, you!

*sniff!*

People who are allergic to paragraphs now qualify for subsidized Epi-pens.

7 minutes ago, Davey Do said:

 

Whatsa matter wif you? 

You lazy or sumpin?

I am a short and sweet poster.

I have a short attention span, so I don't read some very eloquent posters like JKB. She's too detailed for me. Get to point in the first paragraph, you can elaborate on your post in subsequent ones, but don't create work for me, I'm here for light entertainment.

 

I'm a parentheses abuser, but knowing is half the battle, right?

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2 minutes ago, Emergent said:

I have a short attention span, so I don't read some very eloquent posters like JKB.

I wonder if she's any relation of JKL.

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6 minutes ago, JBMmom said:

I'm a parentheses abuser, but knowing is half the battle, right?

Yes, JBMom, the first step in the problem-solving process is to identify the problem.

As Horace said, "He who has begun has the job half done".

But what did he know?

He was a sexist!

Mea culpa, mea culpa!
 

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5 minutes ago, amoLucia said:

Mea culpa, mea culpa!

Hmmm... I was in the fraternity, Tappa Kegga Ale.

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26 minutes ago, Jedrnurse said:

subsidized Epi-pens.

Does that mean you have financially reconstitute the epinephrine? 

I tend to write a book when I post, I've also noticed that I'm starting more sentences with the words "and" and "but", which is just poor writing! I need to learn to keep it short and sweet like other posters.

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I tend to use the ellipsis too much...

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