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It depends on the conversation. Because I am a writer by profession, I have a bad tendancy of writing in proper English, which can sound very stilted at times. I also will take some subjects more seriously than I probably should. The biggest problem that I've had is that because most of my responses are somewhat heavy, when I do jokke around, people will take my response wrong and they think I'm serious. Not only here on MyLot, but other social/writing boards. I will make an off the wall response and people think I'm being serious.

I wish I could come up with discussions! I just can't think of things to say to start one!

Hi there. Well, honestly, I also have this habit of using "big" words, even in normal conversation and sometimes, I have to stop and try to think of how to say things without them sounding too serious.

I do too! And I know that I'm bad at phrasing discussions - or any statement in real life for that matter - because I hear my sister speak and I see how she writes and I know that's how I should have phrased what I said when I said it :P Thanks for the response on my discussion!

As a friend of mine once said about our social group, we have no small talk, only big talk. It's fairly rare for me to write simply, because I simply don't think simply. I do, on these boards, make some attempt to use simpler (and usually less precise) words to get my point across, since clearly this is not an academic forum, but I tend to take the view that if someone can't understand what I'm writing, I probably don't care if they don't take part in my discussions. Of course this leads to my current frustration in the lack of meaningful discussions available to comment on. With eight interests listed across the top of my page, and ten discussions listed in each, making 80, time after time I find 80/80 are totally inane. Aaaargh! I don't expect everyone to feel as I do about this, and I totally accept their right to write and respond to inanities; since the most popular TV shows and movies are all, to my taste, totally inane and tasteless, it's quite clear I am in a tiny minority and inanity is today's version of meaningful, but it would be nice to get more than the occasional chance to talk seriously. Panda Spanking is a good outlet for those times I want to just have fun, but even there most of the discussions, fun as they are, have an underlying seriousness about them. Lash

Sometimes when I'm in that kind of mood. There are times though when I don't have it in me to write like that and I struggle to find 'heavier' words to respond to more elaborate discussions. I generally prefer to keep things light and fun. Do you suffer from writer's block? I am afflicted sometimes not so much in this forum but when I am doing my own thing. It's interesting how some days it just flows and other days trying to find the words feels like pulling teeth!

Well, I don't know how to write proper English and thus I am very cautious with my words here. I cna't use heavy or light words. Only use simple one like I used here. Well, I know one guy who uses only heavy words and other only fun and light words!