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[mossj]

Text speak irritates me the most. To me, it implies a general lack of respect for, or interest in, the person you are communicating with - almost as if you just can't be bothered to use coherent language with them.

 

A friend said 'lol' infront of me the other day whilst we were out drinking. I promptly punched him the arm, said next time it will be the face, and walked off.

[Batman]

One thing I cant stand is text speak as I think its unprofessional. My Line manager uses it and it does my head in i.e "Fone me if summat cumes up".

 

That's not text speak, it's just bad English. Txt spks whn u try nt 2 use 2 mny vwls i thnk. Saying "Fone me if summat cumes up" only saves four letters anyway, it's not even worth it .

 

Oh I used an emoticon, is that bad too? I'm never quite sure how to punctuate an emoticon (?)

 

While we're thinking about it, why's this thread being resurrected? It's pretty old!

[SYNACK]

I don't think that the english language is changing when looked at in the long term, when Shakespeare was writing plays the dictionary had not been invented yet and in many of his plays there were several differing spellings for the same words. The written language had been going a long time before then and the actuall meaning of the words was what mattered. The 'modern' age saw the invention of the dictionary and a set of firm rules as to which way was correct, this helped nail down the language a bit and probably make it easier to teach but it also gave rise to the great crime of misspelling. A concept that did not really exist until comparitivly recently in the history of the language.

 

The core function of language is to convey information effectivly and I think that all these fancy new semantics may do just as much to hurt the language as they do to help it by alienating people from it. There are of course good points and bad to every situation and decision but I think that the tyranny of spelling is actually a detractor in that it pushed people away from the official language smply because it contains so many new ways to be wrong and told off for being so. Not that I endorse 'text speak' but the idea behind it is actually more of a return to the original spirit of the language than our common interpretation. It is about the quick conveyance of information with a limited subset of rules (letter and number sounds) to which there is a low barrier to entry. In this way 'txt spk' is actually more english than dictionary english in the long view as it is free of the contraints that distance people from its true goal.

 

I am off to put on my asbestos jacket and pants just now as I can already hear the flames lapping gently at the back of my screen but as most know I am not shy of my own controversial opinions and thought that this viewpoint needed to be expressed

[RabbieBurns]

I sometiems remove vowels from a text message and truncate words so i can fit the message into the charachter limit and not have to pay for 2 SMS's ;p

[SYNACK]

Likewise if I am texting someone that can handle it and I feel like adding compression, as IT people we should be alright with the whole idea of it as it is basicly easy human readable compression for the english language. Like ZIP or RAR but implemented in people rather than software, or in fur if we take mattx's gerbils into account

[mossj]

Likewise if I am texting someone that can handle it and I feel like adding compression, as IT people we should be alright with the whole idea of it as it is basicly easy human readable compression for the english language. Like ZIP or RAR but implemented in people rather than software, or in fur if we take mattx's gerbils into account

 

Okay I just 'RARed' your post

 

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[Batman]

Okay I just 'RARed' your post

 

If I'm honest, I would only understand 70% of what you wrote if it were not for having the original message.

[Domino]

How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal

and

How to use a semicolon - The Oatmeal

and

10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling - The Oatmeal

 

are amazing.

 

These are available as posters and should be everywhere ;-)

[tom_newton]

Did I not post this yet? Silly me My favourite...

 

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

 

Oh, and my pet hate? People who use "...." or ".." it's a proper glyph called an ellipsis and it has *three* dots!

[tom_newton]

How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal

and

How to use a semicolon - The Oatmeal

and

10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling - The Oatmeal

 

are amazing.

 

These are available as posters and should be everywhere ;-)

 

That may even beat bob. Love 'em.

[SteveBentley]

I'm getting irritated of late by people who seem to think that the word "not" needs to be written in upper case. On a notice or similar I can understand it, but in general prose of an email, I find it annoying and patronising.

[Batman]

In that scenario I would assume they're shouting.

 

"I will NOT tolerate... blah blah blah"

 

They're having a go at you!

[john]

Did I not post this yet? Silly me My favourite...

 

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

 

Oh, and my pet hate? People who use "...." or ".." it's a proper glyph called an ellipsis and it has *three* dots!

Very nice Tom (Goes back to check my Sent Items to Tom to make sure I have been using three dots not more or less and my apostrophe's are correct )