I don't understand chat rooms at all, how to make sense of sentence fragments?

You just wait for something to come up you can talk about comfortably and jump in there.

just jump in and say hello and what dverhey said.

I assume you’re talking about Fluther chat. Seeing as how you were in there for a while, but quiet.

I think most chat rooms like that already have a close group of people. Like they both said above, just wait until you have something to add to the conversation and just say it.
Or just bring up something random, and we’ll respond.

Like Star Wars. :D

Sentence fragments are like run-on sentences – just read enough of them and they start to make their own kind of sense, especially if you stop trying to care about proper form and grammar. ;)

I would be in the Fluther chat more often if my long ass name didn’t break it. <shakes fist>

JamesJoycerocks!

I tried the chatroom a few times and found it annoying – it seemed to consist mainly of people coming, being greeted and then going…....

I tried to sneak in once or twice, just to have a peek, but loud gongs and alarms went off…announcing my presence.

@janbb:Greet balls of fire.

@gailcalled I hate when that happens. It is like setting of the alarm on the way out of the store.

Inside joke guys?

@12_func_multi_too: No. When you enter either of the present two chat rooms, there is a little announcement; viz; “gailcalled has entered the chat room,” or something like that. Then there is a chorus of “Hi, Gail”‘s. l speed-read what is there and then leave.

Yeah, I hate the obligatory introductions. Plus I type slow and don’t know some of the shorthand. It’s kind of like ‘go ahead with what you where talking about and don’t let me interrupt, but how do I do that without being a lurker’.