Who invented this stupid english??
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
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Muammar© wrote:
what do they exactly call it??
Assuming that wasn't a rhetorical question: it's called (tongue-in-cheek) txtspk. I hate it. :mad:
Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
It is the bane of English speakers all over the world. It is txtspeak :mad:
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
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Muammar© wrote:
what do they exactly call it??
Assuming that wasn't a rhetorical question: it's called (tongue-in-cheek) txtspk. I hate it. :mad:
Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)
Yes, thank you, that was the name the bloody "text speak!".. God I hate it :mad: My guess is people use it to hide their spelling mistakes!! You can read a misspelled word easier than reading that crap!!
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
It's moron-speak, and guaranteed to make any employer or professional contact think very poorly of anyone observed using it. It is, however, rather handy when you're trying to communicate using one of those tiny, inconvenient devices that were meant to be spoken into, not typed.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
The other thing is most of the people using these stuffs are pretty bad in spelling. Make things even harder to figure out when a spelling mistake is made! asl? :))
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein Ernest Laurentin
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The other thing is most of the people using these stuffs are pretty bad in spelling. Make things even harder to figure out when a spelling mistake is made! asl? :))
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein Ernest Laurentin
Ernest Laurentin wrote:
asl? :)
Txtspk, an insult, and a smile? :~
Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
it was called leet speak. And invented by the gaming and/or warez community pretty much simultaneously (much of the communities overlap). It stands to date as (imo) the only wildly successful open (not quite source) community project that continues to evolve and keep up with current times.
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
Stupidity :)
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
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The other thing is most of the people using these stuffs are pretty bad in spelling. Make things even harder to figure out when a spelling mistake is made! asl? :))
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein Ernest Laurentin
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
Whats worse is there are people who speak it. Yes, that's right, people actually sound out the abbreviations to make words, then use said words in conversation. As soon as those words end up in the dictionary, I'm moving and refusing to speak English ever again...
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Whats worse is there are people who speak it. Yes, that's right, people actually sound out the abbreviations to make words, then use said words in conversation. As soon as those words end up in the dictionary, I'm moving and refusing to speak English ever again...
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I always get a chuckle when one of my nephews or younger cousins says Ohh-Em-Gee in casual conversation. However, I dont chuckle because they did it, I chuckle becuase everyone in the room (including the grandparents) understood what they said but most of them will bitch and moan on the internet later to thier friends about people who do it while not realizing that they are bitching about thier own kin.
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it was called leet speak. And invented by the gaming and/or warez community pretty much simultaneously (much of the communities overlap). It stands to date as (imo) the only wildly successful open (not quite source) community project that continues to evolve and keep up with current times.
kinar wrote:
warez community
Who? :confused:
My other signature is witty and insightful.
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kinar wrote:
warez community
Who? :confused:
My other signature is witty and insightful.
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
no 1 is 4cing u 2 use it, we cld <- प्रकृति ;P :laugh:
Spike Mulligan is at WW2 Conscription intake centre. Officer asks "Where you born Mulligan". "India, sir", Mulligan briskly replies. "Which part" asks the officer. To which Spike replies "All of me, sir".
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It's moron-speak, and guaranteed to make any employer or professional contact think very poorly of anyone observed using it. It is, however, rather handy when you're trying to communicate using one of those tiny, inconvenient devices that were meant to be spoken into, not typed.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I disagree. Various "autospell" (a.k.a. prediction typing) features eliminate the need for the abhorrent, incessant, moronic, idiotic, asinine, brainless, mindless, dim-witted, senseless, dumb, imbecilic, absurd, pointless unintelligent "language" of text speak (I refuse to "abbreviate" it on principle). It takes a little training, but it's worth it to spell properly via SMS to convey you have an intelligence greater than that of moss growing on the underside of a slimy rock by the river. Text speak is a language invented by "tweens" and their ilk; and let's admit it here: when was the last time tweens knew what was best for society? Why do we let them dictate our mobile text language? It's grown to such popularity that when I receive automatic texts relating to some of my favorite TV shows (trivia, fun facts, etc.), THEY use "text speak" and it's all done by a computer! There's no need! :mad: This new "language" has contributed to the declining intelligence of today's youth; over-stimulation from the media, ready access to just about any information in the world at one's hands, available for lookup and never committed to memory, and now we don't even require them to spell properly! A fine grasp on one's native language, both spoken and written, is a fundamental component to any other advanced knowledge/intelligence in any subject manner. I expect that in 30 years time, the English language will officially dispose of multiple forms of "their"/"they're"/"there" (and similar words) in favor of the easiest to spell, sometimes sans a letter or two, simply because nobody knows which form is linguistically correct anymore. Don't even get me started on full QWERTY keyboards on mobile devices... It's an input device designed to be used by two hands, utilizing all 10 fingers, and it's all crammed onto a small device using - at most - 2 fingers? How can anyone have ever expected 100% equivalent efficiency with only 20% of the usability interface? Someone failed at math. But I digress on this; it's neither here nor there. I discovered this banner online a long time ago. I forget the original source, but I copied it to ImageShack and use it as a signature on many fora I visit: http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9958/antitxtbanner3roia4.gif[^]. I advise (encourage?) any and all of you to join the movement and stand up AGAINST inten
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it was called leet speak. And invented by the gaming and/or warez community pretty much simultaneously (much of the communities overlap). It stands to date as (imo) the only wildly successful open (not quite source) community project that continues to evolve and keep up with current times.
kinar wrote:
it was called leet speak.
That's l33t. See here: http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/noeffort/romjul.htm[^]
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no 1 is 4cing u 2 use it, we cld <- प्रकृति ;P :laugh:
Spike Mulligan is at WW2 Conscription intake centre. Officer asks "Where you born Mulligan". "India, sir", Mulligan briskly replies. "Which part" asks the officer. To which Spike replies "All of me, sir".
I hate to break it to you this way, but the BBC isn't a newspaper.
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