HAs texting destroyed the way people should write?

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  1. JonGlory

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    if u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 141d

    Anyone know what this means :scratch
     
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  2. Fergal1982

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    i can read it. fairly easily in fact.
     
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    How do you get, g37 141d equals get paid? :blink God I must be getting old! :ohmy Who said that? Come out dam ya!:box2
     
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  6. Markyboyt

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    I hate seeing it used when its unneccessary, i partially use it in texts messages.
    I do short hand some things sometimes depending how im feeling, ill write msgs, txt etc. Never anything like cnt wnt or e, even in txt msgs lol. I sometimes write ctrl instead of control on my job cards if im talking about a control unit too.

    in answer to the original question, yes it does spoil the english language because anybody who uses text speak even occasionally has to think twice when trying not to.
     
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  7. Crito

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    IMHO, what you say should matter more than how you say it. The purpose of language is to convey information.

    Unfortunately, you're right that most people automatically assume a well spoken person knows what they're talking about. Even if it's just a bunch of nonsensical jargon strung together with flowery adjectives. So if you're trying to sway the opinions of others, l33t-speak isn't helping your cause.
     
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    If we're going for annoying things. I actually don't mind text speak. I mean maybe someone kicked off when "can not" was turned into "can't".

    Having said that I think the most annoying thing for me is acronyms. When I worked at a certain firm they had a 35page handout which was purely translating the amount of rubbish acronyms they used.
     
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    I absolutely loathe text speak and never use it myself. If I am sending a text message I simply write it out properly and try to keep it short and sweet. My girlfriend used to use it a lot before we were going out, she doesn't anymore though because she knows how much I hate it. She is glad not to be using it anymore too, I think her spelling is probably better for it.
     
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  10. Markyboyt

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    Car manufacturers are the same, every control unit is an acronym, a control unit that does the same job on 2 cars will be called a different name sometimes, plus when the acronym is from the german name they dont quite match with the english translation either
     
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    So... you'd rather we say things like "the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server" every time instead of simply saying "the DHCP server"? :blink How is that MORE helpful?
     
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  12. sunn

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    I was thinking GNU would be a better example. Try saying that regularly :rolleyes:
     
  13. oztrailrider

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    GNU love their acronyms, how about the definition for the GNU Hurd kernel:

    :rolleyes:
     
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  14. IThurts

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    I think that the people excessivley complaining about this are getting old and dont like the change in times...:D

    ^couldnt resist that, but to some extent i think its true.

    Agreed it should stop at tx msgs though. Sometimes its just quicker to write like it though. Most of da tx shortnin of wrds r quite ez to undastand in most cases.:)

    Its idiots that write crap that you wouldnt even relate to a word...that is the annoying thing to me, and nothing else.
     
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  15. IThurts

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    Yea but thats an acronym...:blink

    GBL was refering to short hand wording i thought, to me its not the same deal. ie: "txt" is meant to represent "text"...the individual letters t,x and t mean nothing as opposed to the beforementioned DHCP which letters represent each word.
     
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  16. Bluerinse
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    No, we just don't like dumb arse kids ruining the Queen's English. 8)
     
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    The "queens english" was ruined long before "dumb arse kids" started texting.:)

    and (in bold) who is "we"...? the old folk who do not want to adapt to accomodate the changes in times?:p

    Like i said...im in agreement with the whole email thing...but tx msgn is tx msgn...like someone pointed out..its cheaper and quicker to write shorthand.
     
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    LOL. I've been a grammar nazi since I was in grade school. I've always disliked deliberately poor written communication.

    Deliberately poor communication shows a lack of respect for the other person. It says, I'm entitled to communicate any way I want, and you must learn to accommodate me so I can communicate with you. Well, sorry, that's a very immature attitude. Everyone goes to school and we're all taught the English language in school, yet some people seem to dislike learning it.

    Yes, I know there are people with dyslexia and other learning disabilities, but they are a separate issue. They have a physical problem with how their brain is wired. I'm talking about the people who just decide they don't want to learn English and use it correctly. It's those who think they are entitled to communicate badly, or not learn, and expect everyone to accommodate them anyway that I have a problem with.
     
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  19. Crito

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    I was reading about Einstein this afternoon and there was a passage that reminded me of this thread. Someone told him that he'd never win any prizes for his writing style. To which he replied by quoting a mathematician named Boltzmann who said, "Matters of elegance ought to be left to the tailor and to the cobbler."

    Again, I'm of the opinion that what matters is communicating effectively. How you accomplish that isn't nearly as important.

    He wasn't really a great mathematician either FWIW. What he was is a free thinker who didn't confine himself to the conventional wisdom (of Newtonian gravity and Euclidean geometry) and who didn't need approval from the academic mutual admiration society... though he eventually got it anyways.
     
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  20. IThurts

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    i dont know where you pulled that theory from but i disagree. Yes its an immature attitude IF IT WERE TRUE. I dont know where you get your ideas from, but they are your own so thats up2u.:)
    Your above statement only holds true (if this was the case) if one member of these comms does not understand the other...so what if it was that the other person DID understand shorthand style.....then what? They are BOTH disrespcting each other because they are deliberately using "poor communication"?

    I communicate with people via written text according to the situation and type of people i am having comms with. Its got zero to do with "respect" for someone. People have busy lives and a forum or a text msg or possibly even an email to a FRIEND using some slang/shorthand is nothing to go to the queen about imho.
     
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