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I don't understand chat rooms at all, how to make sense of sentence fragments?

Asked by 12_func_multi_tool (803points) January 26th, 2010
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I’ve experienced IM it’s OK if you just want company but chat is totally illogical to me. If I ever enter one it seems very intimate but it seems it has no start nor end. How do you jump into something like that mid-stream?

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DeanV's avatar

You just wait for something to come up you can talk about comfortably and jump in there.

DeanV (14216points)“Great Answer” (2points)
cyn's avatar

just jump in and say hello and what dverhey said.

cyn (6913points)“Great Answer” (1points)
rangerr's avatar

I assume you’re talking about Fluther chat. Seeing as how you were in there for a while, but quiet.

I think most chat rooms like that already have a close group of people. Like they both said above, just wait until you have something to add to the conversation and just say it.
Or just bring up something random, and we’ll respond.

Like Star Wars. :D

rangerr (15765points)“Great Answer” (2points)
laureth's avatar

Sentence fragments are like run-on sentences – just read enough of them and they start to make their own kind of sense, especially if you stop trying to care about proper form and grammar. ;)

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jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities's avatar

I would be in the Fluther chat more often if my long ass name didn’t break it. <shakes fist>

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Trillian's avatar

JamesJoycerocks!

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janbb's avatar

I tried the chatroom a few times and found it annoying – it seemed to consist mainly of people coming, being greeted and then going…....

janbb (62885points)“Great Answer” (2points)
gailcalled's avatar

I tried to sneak in once or twice, just to have a peek, but loud gongs and alarms went off…announcing my presence.

@janbb:Greet balls of fire.

gailcalled (54644points)“Great Answer” (3points)
vincentcent's avatar

@gailcalled I hate when that happens. It is like setting of the alarm on the way out of the store.

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12_func_multi_tool's avatar

Inside joke guys?

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gailcalled's avatar

@12_func_multi_too: No. When you enter either of the present two chat rooms, there is a little announcement; viz; “gailcalled has entered the chat room,” or something like that. Then there is a chorus of “Hi, Gail”‘s. l speed-read what is there and then leave.

gailcalled (54644points)“Great Answer” (1points)
vincentcent's avatar

Yeah, I hate the obligatory introductions. Plus I type slow and don’t know some of the shorthand. It’s kind of like ‘go ahead with what you where talking about and don’t let me interrupt, but how do I do that without being a lurker’.

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