The concept of the blog is better explained in the first post, which originally is here. This post might be too local for Spanish speakers, but the next posts we'll be more general, I promise.
Life Sucks
Preliminary note: In Spanish we use two exclamation marks, one at the start, one at the end. Text messaging, Messenger and E-mails have made all the world lazy and everyone looks for ways of shortening writing, such as AFK. LOL, WTF, etc.
Spanish speakers also have things like KP2, NTP, NTC, and we have also incorporated various english ones.
In this spirit for shortening writing peope have started to use less and less the starting exclamation mark...
** TRANSLATED POST**
Before deciding to make this blog I thought life sucked, but when I saw that there already exists a blog with the domain lavidaesunamierda.blogspot.com I was totally convinced that life sucks. This event, so horrible as it is inconceivable, forced me into misspelling the title of this blog.
Someday when I believe to be happy, merry, euphoric or jolly I will check this blog for a list of things that make life a hell, in doing so I'll return to my usual state. Nothing scares me more than being normal and happy.
Here is the first reason why I remember that life sucks:
Reason #1: The disuse in which has fallen the initial exclamation mark in ordinary writing
Writing, even if ordinary, must respect the two exclamation marks in a phrase written in Spanish. It musn't in English or French. I don't know about the other languages but it is possible that they don't use it either. Do japanese have exclamation marks?
I remember Leopoldo Lugones didn't always use the starting exclamation mark in his manuscripts, but he was a poet and never used messenger, e-mail or wrote stupid notes in his friend's notebook with the ridiculous and empty expresison: LYL!!![love you lots]*
For those of you who, due to lack of use, have forgotten how it looks I put it here for you to remember:
¡ [it looks bigger in the blog]
Due to the first reason I remembered another reason why life sucks:
Reason #2: It doesn't matter if you use or not the starting exclamation mark.
Using the starting exclamation point will not cause anything on the people who read what you write. You can not expect anything from using it, neither respect, nor applause, nor a pat on the shoulder, much less praising.
Having respect for Spanish spelling is not important. In the end, users are the ones who make the language, so spelling is insignificant.
I invite the fellow authors** of this blog to number the reasons why life sucks. It's just a suggestion. I say goodbye to this first post advising all those who read it to never forget the fecal character of life.
*Note: LYL is my attempt at translating the spanish TQM (te quiero mucho). Literally it'd be closer to "I love you a lot", but love can be a strong word and "lots" makes it feel more superficial and casual.
**I had hope that some of my friends would also write something, but the response was minimal.
