Off-topic, but I found the example conversation a bit jarring. You know how in advertising photos people are incredibly excited to be eating salad, yet real life is nothing like that? The conversation in the screenshot sounds like made-up copy to me, yet it is ostensibly a real chat between the author and an acquaintance. So I am left to wonder: are actual people really that giddy about trivialities in real life? Are they on drugs all the times? Or am I just an old curmudgeon?
Might be a cultural difference. Having been born in the East Block and spending nearly all my adult life in Western Europe I sometimes still can't help but wonder how some folks from the other side of the pond can keep up this level of verbal excitement about things
Yeah, I would have expected a bit more either humor or toning down of the positives (too saccharine).
From a semantic analysis, this leads the text to seem very astroturf-y.
The best example conversation would be some humor, pop/nerd-culture references and aligned principle statements thrown in, along with possibly some chaff (ie, references/names an onlooker can't expect to know).
I wouldn't say this is how I think most of my friends talk or anything, but it certainly doesn't read that differently from the way some people I know communicate.
