text speak and terrible spelling

[Beaker]

He put a quote mark on the wrong side of a full stop.

If you want to be picky, that's actually correct as I was quoting a complete sentence

BUT, I did omit an introductory , to the quotation.

It should have been It seems the general feeling now is for people to just think, "Oh, I'm not good at this, I can't be arsed."

 

[Buddha 3]

And it should have been soldier, rather than solider...

 

[Cook$]

I'm going to try and write a formula for this.

(A (where A is thread about spelling/grammar/txt speak)
+
B (where B is forum user making argument)
+
C) (where C is the following forum user scrutinising previous forum user's post for spelling mistakes)
/
D (where D is the length of time between threads of this type appearing)
=
E (where E equals I'm not sure what, as my variables aren't compatible with one another)

 

[Skeet]

Forgive me if I am wrong, but are some people seriously suggesting that Text Speak has even the remotest chance of replacing The Queens English at some point in the future?

I have a theory regarding the seemingly widespread use of Text Speak.

Firstly, there is the widespread use of texting. Now, this has been adopted by the masses of teenagers and pre-teens out there, because it means they can have a phone and look cool yet cost them little to stay in touch, or waste time copiously.

Secondly, these masses, are widely of the attitude that just enough effort, will reap them the rewards they desire. So they don't have any respect for people, not even enough to construct a short message properly. They don't "speak" properly, they can't read or write as well as we would like.

Combine this, with the fact that these children have no fear of authority, because authority has no power over them, what do we expect?

If, when the parents see them texting they say, "What load of sh!te is that your typing?", then slap them about the head and make them write out the correct spelling and punctuation 100 times before bed, then maybe we would see a gradual reduction in delinquent teens and needless Text Speak?

I have no problem with texts, though some people do seem to think that you can explain the most complex of things, via text despite the potential for incorrect ends of sticks, to be grabed.

But I cannot accept that Text Speak will evolve to replace English.
Besides, I feel sure that they have developed "shorthand" in other languages to use on their phones, but are we really going to learn theirs?
Short French or German? Short Arabic?

Txt Spk Blo's Goats.

 

[Big Mac]

blame the phone companies, they introduced the limits of characters on texts. This therefore lead to txt speak to shorten words to fit into a message.

Unfortunately however this use has spread to places such as forums which do not have the same character limit and the limit they do have is rarely reached.

 

[Cook$]

I hate this. If this was Friday, I'd rant about 'spelling' threads.

Actually, Spelling threads are now a damn site more frequent than any rants of mine.

 

[Stokecity_m]

Melchett: Well, I hope so, Blackadder. You know, if there's one thing I've
learned from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh.
I knew a major: got pooh-poohed; made the mistake of ignoring the
pooh-pooh -- he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out
all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing
a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the
end, we had to disband the regiment -- morale totally destroyed ...
by pooh-pooh!

 

[Devrij]

No you can't, it's her hand.

It's the same pic as

http://cde.cerosmedia.com/welt_issue5/1T486cfa5828b65012.cde/page/22

You're absolutely right. I stand corrected (I must just see nipples everywhere).

Skeet, as much as I love your wickedly deviant posts, your preposterous abuse of the comma negates any valuable input you might give. So, "ya boo, sucks to you" *waggles fingers with thumb touching nose*

 

[Lovetone]

I didnt read all of Skeets post, but in summary, I'd recommend you read 1984 by George Orwell. Newspeak has some frightening parallels already in todays society, not to mention a bunch of other stuff in that book.


I think the shortening of language will occur, and definitely at some point inthe far far far future languages will start to share more and more commonality, principally due to migration and the heterogeneity of society as a whole.

 

[Buddha 3]

Forgive me if I am wrong, but are some people seriously suggesting that Text Speak has even the remotest chance of replacing The Queens English at some point in the future?

I have a theory regarding the seemingly widespread use of Text Speak.

Firstly, there is the widespread use of texting. Now, this has been adopted by the masses of teenagers and pre-teens out there, because it means they can have a phone and look cool yet cost them little to stay in touch, or waste time copiously.

Secondly, these masses, are widely of the attitude that just enough effort, will reap them the rewards they desire. So they don't have any respect for people, not even enough to construct a short message properly. They don't "speak" properly, they can't read or write as well as we would like.

Combine this, with the fact that these children have no fear of authority, because authority has no power over them, what do we expect?

If, when the parents see them texting they say, "What load of sh!te is that your typing?", then slap them about the head and make them write out the correct spelling and punctuation 100 times before bed, then maybe we would see a gradual reduction in delinquent teens and needless Text Speak?

I have no problem with texts, though some people do seem to think that you can explain the most complex of things, via text despite the potential for incorrect ends of sticks, to be grabed.

But I cannot accept that Text Speak will evolve to replace English.
Besides, I feel sure that they have developed "shorthand" in other languages to use on their phones, but are we really going to learn theirs?
Short French or German? Short Arabic?

Txt Spk Blo's Goats.

Unfortunately the text speak thing isn't limited to the UK... We get the same thing here, some form of incomprehensible collection of squiggles and random letters that's supposed to be Dutch...