Please stop posting in TEXT format

[Spookym15]

This has been driving me up the wall for a while. The people that go through and post on here like they are texting. I don't know what it is that drive me up the wall about it so much. I had a student hand me a paper that was typed in text and they thought it was okay. Please people stop with the "Cos, n, gr8, 2" it is because, and, great, and to or two. I just read five posts that all were like that. I may just start typing IN ALL CAPS, JUST BECAUSE I CAN.

Now you can respond in text format.
Flame on

[Dave Peck]

Yes! That is Soooo annoying! Sure, it does take a little bit longer to actually type things out in english, and sometimes I'm in a hurry jus lik other ppl & dont wa 2 tk ti2 frm omg gwm r2r lk uh gak lol uh 1snr 2L bmtkr n url.

[Led]

lmfbo - maybee thr txting frm thr blackberry's?


EDIT - lets not forget that while today's youngins like to lay claim to bad spelling and grammar used in txts, some of us were using it on MIRC channels before they were even born.
<jumps off couch and slaps himself with a wet fish>
BRB

[credentialed]

I'm tired of having to go get my 17 year old daughter to translate text grammar on this forum. It just solidifies my position as uncool.

Later for her. She can keep her MP3's and her Sidekick. I still have my albums and old eight inch long cell phone.


I can always use google or wikipedia to interpret.

Who's cool now shawty? Who's cool now...?

[dannygold]

Rotflmao

[credentialed]

Originally Posted by dannygold

Rotflmao

Me too...I think...

[DigitMus]

Yeah, quit using text - you should communicate with emoticons!!!

[Duardo]

I don't even like getting text messages in text format...

[GILFOIL]

i agree.

ppl tlk w/ txt r l@m3

[credentialed]

Originally Posted by DigitMus

Yeah, quit using text - you should communicate with emoticons!!!

Pfffft....emoticons, Decipticons or Autobots, nothing beats pure language. laugh out loud.

[olivia_nb]

Ye all men hath missed thee newest trend, knaves and nice poofy gents useth l33t, wherest a faithful gentry useth ye olde Middle English.

[credentialed]

Originally Posted by olivia_nb

Ye all men hath missed thee newest trend, knaves and nice poofy gents use l33t, wherest a faithful gentry useth ye olde Middle English.

For the faithful gentry, l33t is defined here:

Leet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Kyle S]

*slaps Led with a wet fish!

[moracspace]

This is the state of our nation.F*ckin lazy teens.Im not saying at all that all teens are, but the majority.

[esaias]

all those abbreviations, acronyms, usage of numbers is still somwhat intelligible but oh dear lord you have not yet seen the /b/ language. if you don't know what /b/ is, consider ignorance as a bliss.

and oh, I read a news today that somwbody had suggested again to frop excessive letters from diffcult english words.
It is OK to simplify the language in terms of making it more intelligible but if you start making changes because the youth is totally retarted (that's internet "retarted") something is horribly wrong. Has anyone seen the Idiocrazy movie?

-Tomi

[Funk Dracula]

Originally Posted by moracspace

This is the state of our nation.F*ckin lazy teens.Im not saying at all that all teens are, but the majority.

Are they lazy? Or are you lazy in not keeping up with the times? It's ok to think TXT abbreviations are stupid, but to declare it as the state of our nation is a bit of a hyperbole.

BTW, ok is short for okay, which is short for all right or 'nuff said etc.... The updating of communication terms will NEVER stop.

I think your lazy for not using an apostrophe for your written abbreviations, as well as your failure to hit the spacebar twice between sentences.



Peace.

[GILFOIL]

Originally Posted by moracspace

This is the state of our nation.F*ckin lazy teens.Im not saying at all that all teens are, but the majority.

if the nation to which you are referring is the united states, then indeed you are correct to proclaim said state is a sad one.

how ever, here in Canada (although I'm only speaking on behalf of myself and my many personalities) we are not lazy. we are efficiency specialists.

[credentialed]

Originally Posted by Funk Dracula

Are they lazy? Or are you lazy in not keeping up with the times? It's ok to think TXT abbreviations are stupid, but to declare it as the state of our nation is a bit of a hyperbole.

BTW, ok is short for okay, which is short for all right or 'nuff said etc.... The updating of communication terms will NEVER stop.

I think your lazy for not using an apostrophe for your written abbreviations, as well as your failure to hit the spacebar twice between sentences.



Peace.

Hold on. If you're going to criticize someone's grammar, make sure yours is on point. It's not "I think your lazy...", its "I think you're lazy".

[Funk Dracula]

Caught red handed!

[sahiaman]

Worse yet, my friend, the grade school teacher, told me that kids are handing in papers in text talk. Highschool kids who have no idea how to write.