[kleiba]

I suppose you have been downvoted because your post is not really on-topic and also somewhat ranty. But I do share your feeling sometimes although not necessarily with this particular phrase.

For me it's posts that start with:

"This."

The runner up would be the somewhat similar technique of putting a dot between every word of a sentence. That. Is. Quite. Annoying.

But I can't help but wonder why such things annoy us so much? Like you, I get so annoyed with this parrot style of writing that I have a tendency to ignore the post altogether. Why can't I just ignore the form and concentrate on the content of a post? After all, it's a forum, not a creative writing competition.

I've actually tried to better understand what drives people to use the same kind of phrases etc. repeatedly in their posts by deliberately using it myself. Perhaps it is some kind of peer pressure? A feeling of wanting to belong? I couldn't tell, because it didn't do anything for me.

But hey, at least I now got a pretty lengthy post out of this - although there isn't really much content. It's the post about nothing. Jerry Seinfeld would be proud of me.

Really.

[ajuc]

I've noticed I do this (use "message templates"), and I suspect it's the result of learning English by reading stuff on the internet. I assume whatever people use the most without being corrected is the right way to use English in informal situations and I try to do the same.

But in my native language I do get irritated by bad style, so I can only sympathize with you. After all - most of the world abuse English :)

[dumb-dumb]

It's baffling. Human mimicry I guess. At least I know there are some people reading this stuff who also see it as strange as I do.