Cantr Convention (For real)

[kinvoya]

Ok, NOW everyone pay attention to the topic.

Solfius
You would be correct had Nick used "pays" rather than "pay" (a simple oversight, I'm guessing). I do believe the sentence was intended to be an observation laced with a shade of ironic sarcasm. Because of the error, however, it sounds rather more like an annoyed teacher addressing a classroom of unruley students with a command.

Also happy to have no relatives on the forums.

[Nick]

It was sarcasm. Geez.

[wichita]

What's sarcasm? Did I miss the joke again?

[Anthony Roberts]

unfortunately Anthony, you forgot the paraliguistic features of Nick's post.

By placing verbal stress on "NOW" indicates the focus is on the time, that everyone is indeed paying attention now, but the phrasing, along with the socially coded intonation, register, and tone indicates this 'command' is actually sarcasm.

You are so bad at decoding communication within a context/detecting sarcasm/anything that uses your brain.

I'm glad there is no relation between us.

No. The capital "NOW" meant that:

A) Nick can't type worth crap.
B) Nick's caps lock was on.
C) Nick was unaware that he was holding Shift.
D) Or, he just sucks at typing.
E) All of the above.
F) All of the above, to the exponent of 10.

If, however, he were putting stress on the word, he would put it in bold, or italics, am I not correct? Capitalizing a word does put stress on it, however in the context of typing, it merely makes the writer look stupid.

Although, Nick doesn't need to try there.

[Nixit]

G) He was too lazy to put it in bold or italics.

[Nick]

Insults are not allowed on this forum, Anthony. You know that.

[Anthony Roberts]

Insults are not allowed on this forum, Anthony. You know that.

Are you insulting me?

[Nick]

Not in this thread. I got you back in another thread, you'll see soon enough.

[kinvoya]

I got you back in another thread, you'll see soon enough.

In this case, I believe Nick was attempting to use the future tense while mistakenly using the past tense of the verb "to get."

A, honey, do you need a neck massage or something? 'Cause you seem kinda tense and focused on Nick.


EDIT: I was completely wrong. Anthony was already gotten. Hee.

[Nixit]

Not in this thread. I got you back in another thread, you'll see soon enough.

Yes, he did. Unfortunately.

[Crosshair]

I cant go as i'm kinda too young and poor to afford a trans atlantic flight....

[Anthony Roberts]

Might I point out that the activity was planned for March Break.

Which has passed.

[Crosshair]

*throws down a smoke grenade and runs off into the sunset*

[g1asswa1ker]

As much as I would like to attend I would have to avoid it... some of you people I would like to have drawn an quartered. Then peel your skin off with sheets of paper and then pour lemon juice on you... but thats just some of you. Others I'd like to hand a million dallors if I had it to spare...

[Crosshair]

Such Friendliness....