txt spk!

[noseall]

Spelling and grammar aside, is there any chance of leaving text-speak short cuts out of written posts?

In my opinion, it displays an infantile laziness by the poster which is not only a grind to read but also difficult to take seriously.

The better a post is typed, the better for ALL reading on this forum.

We all make mistakes but txt spk is both deliberate, annoying and completely avoidable.

M8 is a motorway in Scotland.

 

[JonB]

100% agree with You noseall.
JonB

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

icwum & khuf imco fwiw it's a cwot

I see what you mean and know how you feel. In my considered opinion, for what its worth, it's a complete waste of time.

Drives me nuts I have a pal who uses this stuff all the time on his text messages. Don't have a glue what he is talking about!

 

[sooey]

Spot on noseall.

 

[Alarm]

Agreed.

 

[joinerjohn]

A shame that John Sullivan died recently. I could just imagine an Only Fools and Horses special with Del Trotter using text speak in his conversations.
Rodney says something dead serious and Del replies "Lol Rodney Lol, You CWOT."

 

[Mickymoody]

Any written text can be misconstrued, look at the bible for that, but modern language is a mixture of different languages, we use a lot of French in English, and French is male or female dominated, so we will never have a steady, Queens English, but I think the Austraulian raised voice at the end, to turn a statement into a question started before txt spk..And now txt spk is being incorporated into language. OMG! for one. Then doublespeek, that teenagers use. Language always will evolve, but I think tweenies, will and have introduced new words into the language, WTF! Quid moris. (I have no idea what that means, if anything!(

 

[MisterG]

A shame that John Sullivan died recently. I could just imagine an Only Fools and Horses special with Del Trotter using text speak in his conversations.
Rodney says something dead serious and Del replies "Lol Rodney Lol, You CWOT."

, BTW those are internet speak which predates txt speak. I was using lol in the 90's before SMS was widely used, it even predates the WWW.

Cheers

G

 

[thatbloke]

Thats an interesting point, you never know , in 100 years our language written or spoken could be a simplified version of what it is now, just as our language now is a somewhat simplified version of what it was 100 years ago.

I for one wont be saying L O L when someone tells me a joke in the future. lol

 

[RonnyRaygun]

Language evolves, you can't stop it. Look at the English language from Beowulf, through Chaucer and Shakespeare, to today; it's changing all the time.
Personally I find it much easier and quicker not to use text speak, but I'm not that attached to my mobile phone either.
But text speak is here to stay. To pretty much anyone younger than me, it's the norm these days.
I don't like it, but you can't hold back the tide...

 

[wreckedit]

I'm getting on a bit and rarely use text and and the language but I do find it fun to try and keep up with things like that. I think there are such offensive goings on in the world that to lyb over a fun thing like that is a bit babyish. duts?

 

[Mickymoody]

I'm getting on a bit and rarely use text and and the language but I do find it fun to try and keep up with things like that. I think there are such offensive goings on in the world that to lyb over a fun thing like that is a bit babyish. duts?

My fiancee received a txt, from her future mum in law....call alndi..

Eventually perceived as call a couple we know, called Alan and Diane....nope! the message was call into Aldi..for unspecified item..?

Text in a forum can be misconstrued, but texting? blimey! That's sure to change the English language, and I thought those apostrophe' bother's were fighting the battle?

Predictive text, is even worse, and more lazy. Especially when wrong. Come goad my goat, maybe Come help my mate? Bizarre

 

[ladylola]

I'm a bit of a luddite so I fall into the noseall camp. I tend to find it slower to actually read that properly written sentances.
If I'm recalling correctly wasn't text speak "invented" to cram more into a message in the days of limited and costly mobile space? So with these days of contracts with unlimited text messaging why the need to abbreviate?
thatbloke mentions language becopming simplier, wheather that's a good thing or not is open to opinion but try reading 1984. In the book is an explanation of newspeak where the language is constantly being reduced, for example take the word "good" and then look at all our other words that mean essentially the same- great, super , excellent, marvellous, splendid, and so on. Newspeak simply drops all but good and if something is better than good simply uses the prefix "double" or "double plus". When I first read it I though what an awful idea ,but I can now almost see the appeal.
Ronnyraygun mentions chaucer. I've got a "dual language" paperback of the Canterbury tales. One page is in modern easily readable English and the facing page is in the original middle English. Try reading the original and it's hard work, until you try reading it in a black country accent at which point it becomes clearer I don't suppose this last bit is really revalent but I though I drop it in anyway.

 

[noseall]

try reading it in a black country accent at which point it becomes clearer I don't suppose this last bit is really revalent but I though I drop it in anyway.

I had to do the same thing when reading Trainspotting only with a broad Scotts accent.