the thing is
it’s sound logic
i actually have the habit of using other people’s typing styles if i spend too much time around them
if you were w/w and used :^) in wolfchat then mist could pick up on it
too bad marshal was wrong
NERD
i have the habit of using other people’s typing styles if i spend any time around them
i picked up :^) from my homesite a long time ago
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same
i think i started using :^) because of m15er cause i thought it was funny
but back in the day i had a friend who used it a lot and i got it from him, but when i stopped talking to him i stopped using it
:^)
i picked up :^) from katze
i picked up “nerd” from marshal
and i picked up “weh” from arete
probably some others too
i picked up weh from smartbomb
i picked up nerd from marshal as well, same with gamer/gaming
i’ve also picked up ayaya from katze but only when talking to ToL people
I picked up ayaya from katze/chloe
:^) from m15’er
I started calling kat cringe and now it’s in a feedback loop where we constantly call each other cringe
and of course alice taught me “looser”
Meanwhile my typing style really doesn’t change based on other people unless I make an effort to adopt something
For example, replacing 
with 
was something I actively decided to do when I found out it existed
I do pick up phrases irl from others using them
The best example of this was one of our members making a few jokes when people used adjectives to describe things by sarcastically responding “you’re [insert adjective]” and by the end of the race the entire team was doing it (I still do it and although it hasn’t happened yet I’ll probably do it in like a job interview or something some day 
).
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