ext_7991 ([identity profile] keristor.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] avevale_intelligencer 2005-06-22 05:44 pm (UTC)

Having never seen a 'kthxbye' (I had to read the comments to find out what it was supposed to be, I thought something was missing from your post!) it doesn't offend me at all. If I saw it I would probably treat it as other TXTSPK or 1337 5P33K and mostly ignore it. I've never seen mm'kay as either arrogant or patronising, it's simply how some people speak.

The long form "OK, thanks, bye" implies to me that the person is in a hurry to (probably) apply whatever I have advised them to do. I don't get any more offended than I do when I'm on the phone and the other person says "I must cut this short" or whatever.

Your last point, that rudeness causes the rudeness itself to be noticed rather than any real points being made, is definitely true. On Usenet it tends to get the person using it put into killfiles so that they aren't seen again. I can think of several examples recently, where I'm just not interested in what they say because their 'arguments' equate to "su madre" (i.e. ad hominem attacks).

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