Kids online
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Naively I thought that having come from an IT background before becoming a mum I'd have a bit of an advantage once my kids get to the online surfing stage. Less than 3(!!!) years later, today, I've gone to have a look at DH's teenage half sister's Facebook profile to see how she's doing this year - the second half of this "msg" is like a foreign language to me:
"Shit ya i knw so much kak this weekend hay but we wil be lafn about it by next weekend.i wil try c u 2day promise !x damb pity last nyt didnt work out but we wil suck it up aka we wil get ova it but miss u so much my mental bitch hahahaha cnt blve our rents sed that we u knw wat so fukn funny sniff sniff twitch twitch if u get it:) love u meggy mwah!owe and we must make it up to nimi damb we feel kak bowt that one sowi nimi "How on earth do those of you with older kids keep one step ahead of this mayhem? I posted this in the Soapbox because of some of the language in that message. Also, it just so happens her name is also "Megan" - hence the "meggy"
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Naively I thought that having come from an IT background before becoming a mum I'd have a bit of an advantage once my kids get to the online surfing stage. Less than 3(!!!) years later, today, I've gone to have a look at DH's teenage half sister's Facebook profile to see how she's doing this year - the second half of this "msg" is like a foreign language to me:
"Shit ya i knw so much kak this weekend hay but we wil be lafn about it by next weekend.i wil try c u 2day promise !x damb pity last nyt didnt work out but we wil suck it up aka we wil get ova it but miss u so much my mental bitch hahahaha cnt blve our rents sed that we u knw wat so fukn funny sniff sniff twitch twitch if u get it:) love u meggy mwah!owe and we must make it up to nimi damb we feel kak bowt that one sowi nimi "How on earth do those of you with older kids keep one step ahead of this mayhem? I posted this in the Soapbox because of some of the language in that message. Also, it just so happens her name is also "Megan" - hence the "meggy"
Ah - I assumed the 'meggy' bit was to you for when you read it :-) This sort of thing is how teenagers build walls to create their own worlds. You and I are supposed to be locked out of it :-) I can read this tho. What worries me is, is this how the language changes ? Is 'bowt' going to be in the Oxford dictionary in 5 years time ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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Ah - I assumed the 'meggy' bit was to you for when you read it :-) This sort of thing is how teenagers build walls to create their own worlds. You and I are supposed to be locked out of it :-) I can read this tho. What worries me is, is this how the language changes ? Is 'bowt' going to be in the Oxford dictionary in 5 years time ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
Is 'bowt' going to be in the Oxford dictionary in 5 years time
Hopefully - in a "Parents English-Kidspeak Translation Dictionary" :sigh:
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Naively I thought that having come from an IT background before becoming a mum I'd have a bit of an advantage once my kids get to the online surfing stage. Less than 3(!!!) years later, today, I've gone to have a look at DH's teenage half sister's Facebook profile to see how she's doing this year - the second half of this "msg" is like a foreign language to me:
"Shit ya i knw so much kak this weekend hay but we wil be lafn about it by next weekend.i wil try c u 2day promise !x damb pity last nyt didnt work out but we wil suck it up aka we wil get ova it but miss u so much my mental bitch hahahaha cnt blve our rents sed that we u knw wat so fukn funny sniff sniff twitch twitch if u get it:) love u meggy mwah!owe and we must make it up to nimi damb we feel kak bowt that one sowi nimi "How on earth do those of you with older kids keep one step ahead of this mayhem? I posted this in the Soapbox because of some of the language in that message. Also, it just so happens her name is also "Megan" - hence the "meggy"
Man, that beats some of the most ghetto stuff I have come across. And no need for that translator.....there's an urban dictionary on the web (google it), which explains the elements of such language lucidly. ;)
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Ah - I assumed the 'meggy' bit was to you for when you read it :-) This sort of thing is how teenagers build walls to create their own worlds. You and I are supposed to be locked out of it :-) I can read this tho. What worries me is, is this how the language changes ? Is 'bowt' going to be in the Oxford dictionary in 5 years time ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
Is 'bowt' going to be in the Oxford dictionary in 5 years time ?
Would it be a problem if it were given that todays usage and spelling would confuse people form a hundred years ago?
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