Amazement

Skudd · Super Spammer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :

I'm not trying to be pedantic in any way but it does wind me up when authors and corrispondents use " TXT " speach such as; cuz, ppl, u,2,midz,foned,wanna,pls,m8 and the like when posting ordinary language for ease and quickness but can type out in full ; fuck, fucking, pricks, cunts, bastards, wankers, tits and other such profanity. Now I'm not saying that I don't use language like this but once upon a time the profanity was shortened and the correct language was left alone.
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iruleurass · Derestricted Danger Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Karma :

It's just natural progression of the english language. It has always been changing for many centuries, yet for some reason in this era old people stuck in their own ways wont accept the change! There has never been a problem in the past, if it is easier to write and quicker to say i dont see where the problem lies! Stop living in the past!

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TheShaggyDA · Repost Police Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Karma :

If you stick to English and not gibberish, then people like Kawashima can follow conversations a lot easier. There is no excuse for laziness.
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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

I've yet to see the ' Amazement ' I was promised in the title...
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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

Got to be honest, I've never once used text speak in a text or on here...

People ask me why they had to read two pages worth of text when I could have done it in one, and the answer is always the same..." Because I speak English "...If I've got something to say I'll say it but it's always spelt right aswell...

Unless you've got a Dyslexic Mother then that's a whole new argument...
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CortezTheKill... · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Karma :

Couldn't agree more.

Shakespeare's plays were all written within 20 years of the King James New Testament, which is perfectly understandable and almost identical to the English we speak today.

In respect of the profanities, Chaucer's 14th-century 'Miller's Tale' contains the word 'queynte', which has become a four-letter word.

Language is always in a state of flux: we spoke a version of Gaelic, then the Angles and Saxons arrived and as they became the power their language became dominant, then the Christians arrived and gave us Latin, then the Normans arrived and all the powerful institutions save the Church used (a version of) French, then we began to explore and colonise the world so we brought back and integrated a whole bunch of strange words, then the Americans rose to power and fucked our language up completely.
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G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

Shorthand of one form or another has been around for a while.

However something like the current text-talk fad has a lot of limitations - it's fine if you're wanting to get basic information over in a condensed form, but if you want to convey anything more complex it has serious limitations.

In a mobile phone message it doesn't matter if the recipient has to spend some time working out which words have been shortened. Also, as there's relatively little information, punctuation and capital letters or the lack of, are less of an issue.
However, when trying to get across slightly more complex situations (which, admittedly, some of the posters may have an issue with in the first place Razz

) it makes it a lot worse.

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Dan 4RR · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Karma :

Is this aimed at LUXY DJ or whatever his name is? Laughing

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fast_tzr · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Karma :

I'm sure some of the English today is shortened from the traditional Shakespearean English though? They do text talk in Spanish too, so if our language is going down the pan then so is everyone else's. Also why you'd bother to actually attempt to put anything vaguely complex across in a text is beyond me anyway, surely texts were made for simple things like "Be 10 mins late", things that don't actually require a phonecall, nothing long or drawn out.

Skudd · Super Spammer Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Karma :

Like I said at the start, I'm not an english teacher by any stretch of the imagination hence grammar, spelling and punctuation mistakes, ( even if I did use spell check ) but what I was saying is that what people think as rude and offensive language can be spelt out in full and yet every day words have to be shortened to the point that some times you are unable to read and understand it.
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Phil_G · Traffic Copper Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :

ITs about laziness. You ask half the text typing retards and they say its "easier". Perhaps to type, but not to decypher the resultant mess of letters Mad

I can see the benefit on a rsize restricted media such as the SMS system, but i still refuse to use it, as if I cant read it then I can hardly expect the other person to either!

On a side note, I caused an absolute outroar by asking a text typer on another forum if a cat had stood on his keyboard after he ahd written something like "yh i d y" as a sentence Laughing

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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

I don't know why you lot are lauding shakespyre as a proponant of good spelling.

Spelling was strictly optional and down to your individual taste/current frame of mind back then. I believe there are 16 different recorded spellings of "William Shakespere" as they appear on period manuscripts.

CortezTheKill... · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Karma :

Point taken, but I don't think anyone has actually suggested that Mr Shaxbeard was a good speller. Spelling wasn't considered important until Dr. Johnson came along.
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