Text speak and the over 40's

[The Cardinal]

Just makes you look a prick, innit bruv.

 

[Titanic]

Wat r u on about m8 ?

 

[Don Quixote]

iz et awrite to do it if yu r nder 40 m8? Or iz it lke nt gud?

 

[Taybha]

one wouldnt know m8

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Lol. U sayin U iz 2 l8 @ 40 m8s? dmmlffs izit!

 

[The Spanish]

Just makes you look a prick, innit bruv.

wooosh.

 

[Mendoza]

Just makes you look a prick, innit bruv.

You are well ghey, they only do it for the lolz and rofls !!!!shift+1!!!1one!

 

[Skint Gull]

I am only 25 and I detest text speak with a passion and think there's a real danger that more and more people will have spelling and grammer difficulties in years to come due to this (and yes, I know my spelling is not exactly perfect before some smart arse picks me up on it).

It was just about understandable when phones first came out as texts were so expensive and people were trying to say as much as they could for as few characters as possible.

Nowadays texts are free or very cheap for the majority of people so why do people do it? It often takes more effort and just as many pushes of the button to write something in text speak than it does to write it properly, especially now we have predictive text on mobiles.

I generally believe well know acronyms are the only acceptable forms of shorthand on texts, anything else is plain chavy

 

[Yorkshire-Seagull]

ROFLCOPTER !!!!

Seriously, the younger people are actually starting to speak in text language now. Heard two girls actually say "roffle" (as in ROFL)....

What is the world coming to... Hell in a handcart....etc etc....

 

[Skint Gull]

ROFLCOPTER !!!!

Seriously, the younger people are actually starting to speak in text language now. Heard two girls actually say "roffle" (as in ROFL)....

What is the world coming to... Hell in a handcart....etc etc....

For those of you like me who had no f***ing clue what an 'ROFL' was?

ROFL - Definition by AcronymFinder


What a crock of shit, those girls should be shot

 

[Garage_Doors]

f*** off

 

[The Cardinal]

f*** off

xoxoxo

 

[Highfields Seagull]

ROFLCOPTER !!!!

Is it a bespoke helicopter for Mr Harris?

 

[Soton Seagull]

Over 40s? Any one using it comes accross lazy (if not a bit of a wanker). How hard is it to use real words?

 

[murraymints4brighton]

Over 40s? Any one using it comes accross lazy (if not a bit of a wanker). How hard is it to use real words?

not very, so thats what i do.

 

[blue'n'white]

Dreadful - I can (just about) accept it on a text - as you're trying to get your point across is 160 characters (although I write almost every word out in full anyway) but when you get an e-mail with text speak it just comes across as lazy - well it does to me. My 20 year old neice e-mailed the other day to say she was having a "gud" time - I mean that is only one less character than "good" - where's the saving for God's sake ?

 

[severnside gull]

god but I feel so old





Still, if you consider that English is an ever-evolving language and realistically spelling (accurately) as a concern is a relatively recent phenomonon, should we be overly worried?

It's just thinking about all those years wasted learning pronunciation and grammar that makes me want to weep

 

[GT49er]

Text speak is in some ways nothing new. Back in the 60's there was 'speedwriting' for note taking - 't' for 'the', tt for that, 2 for to / too / two, and other words shortened, usually by leaving out some vowels -'t ppl at tt tme wer X all ignrnt"; well, it was easier than learning shorthand!
Before that, similar creativity was shown on telegrams, where you were charged per word. Thus 'Saturday. Norwich' could say exactly what was required at far less expense than forking out for the whole un-encrypted message (and yes, people knew what it meant!)
Using text speak on e-mails, or in written communications is just slovenly though.

 

[Skint Gull]

Wat r u on about m8 ?

Just to prove a point some little inbred Pikey that would text that sort of thing would actualy have to push 3 more button's to type it like that than i would to type it properly!

 

[bristolseagull]

I am only 25 and I detest text speak with a passion and think there's a real danger that more and more people will have spelling and grammer difficulties in years to come due to this (and yes, I know my spelling is not exactly perfect before some smart arse picks me up on it).

It was just about understandable when phones first came out as texts were so expensive and people were trying to say as much as they could for as few characters as possible.

Nowadays texts are free or very cheap for the majority of people so why do people do it? It often takes more effort and just as many pushes of the button to write something in text speak than it does to write it properly, especially now we have predictive text on mobiles.

I generally believe well know acronyms are the only acceptable forms of shorthand on texts, anything else is plain chavy

agreed, I too fear for the younger generation that will never be able to spell the word 'mate'