"This one"

GuitarBizarre

Seriously, three questions -

1 - Where the hell did this come from?
2 - Why is it only women who say it?
3 - Does anybody in real life actually talk like that?

I just don't get it. It makes you sound like a 13 year old on an RP forum whose setting is high fantasy. Is that really a good thing?

Ponicalica

I haven't seen anyone other than Beholderess use that and I give her the benefit of the doubt with regards to things grammatical because she's Russian and English isn't her first language.

GuitarBizarre

I've encountered it a number of times, most specifically with a girl I knew who was into all things mystic, like tarot cards and astrology. She said it all the time and I was just like "What?"

Except she only said it in online interactions.

Kino

Play Mass Effect.

GuitarBizarre

Have done. Its fiction, so it doesn't bother me.

Myrmidon

This is a dumb thread.

Chagen

I don't know, it's weird at first, but I just think it makes someone cuter.

snowbull

^^I dunno, this is an odd behaviour that I can see bugging someone, even if that person was not Guitar Bizarre.

Khwarizmi

I just think of it as one of those weird vocabulary quirks that people have.  Like if you were to take the contents of a bunch of posts by myself, Gelzo, Chagen, Vorpy, glenn, Blackbird and vandro and remove all names and all context, somebody familiar with each of us could probably tell us apart because we each type differently.  The use of "this one" in place of "I" is just one of Beholderess' quirks.

arks

This one believes that if you had played Mass Effect you would understand Beholderess' quirk, especially in light of it's avatar.

Kino

I'm not smuggling for you again Opold..

Beholderess

Actually, this one started to use this avatar only after numerous people on the fora likened this one's speech pattern to hanar's. If people regard this one as hanar, she might as well be one to avoid confusion=)

As for the reasons for this particular speech pattern - it had it's origin in paranoia and some mistranslation. Now this one understands how useless that was, but she did not have enough sense of English to realise it back then. Anyway, it turned into a habit amusing enough to keep.

Oh, and this one apologies to those who consider it annoying.

vandro

That seems more japanese grammatical quirk than anything, for many japanese personal pronouns are just variations of "this one" or "that one"

Vorpy

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Anonus

I always thought of it as a less irritating "this troper".

Vorpy

-no-

GuitarBizarre

...Are people still running that ship joke into the ground? Wow. Thats a pretty long lived dead horse.

Anonus

I never even knew it was a running gag until now.

GuitarBizarre

It started about...maybe a couple weeks after I moved from #yackfest to the fora, and ever since its been resurrected a million times as someone fails to realise it was only funny the single, first, individual time. Even the person who said it first thinks it was a stillborn joke.

Gelzo

I always thought it seemed pretty dumb, but I'm not one to complain about it.

Edit: That was directed at the topic of the thread. Shipping jokes that piss people off are A-OK.

Central Avenue

Shipping jokes in general get old fast, for me. (And I'm not just saying that because I'm on the receiving end of a recurring one.)

glennmagusharvey

It's an overly long gag.

I am not amused by it but I am insufficiently offended by it to yell at people for it.