Simplified Writing + Texting..grrr

lol u guyz r such nrdz y da fuk wuld i typ in prpr spln lyk a nrd guy lyk u guyz r i bet u al lik ur dadz
 
lol stven iz a fekn feg 4 typn n dis stupd way, wut a feg nrd who thnks he iz sum putin feg
 
Anyone else think Jeremy was just making fun of Germans (again)?

I'm oll 4 gud tie ping skillz.
 
I hate this.

How much effort does it take to type a full sentence that makes sense to the normal reader? Is it really that hard to type out the extremely long "you" instead of shortcutting it? I can read shortened type, but I'd rather not. When someone is typing like that, I instantly form an opinion of their literary skills. From there I really don't care what they're talking about.
 
Qonfused said:
When someone is typing like that, I instantly form an opinion of their literary skills.
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Change "form an opinion" to "realize a fact". Text speak in jest is one thing, but I have noticed people whom do it constantly are actually quite ignorant, at least literarily.

I have a friend who was an A student and now has a nice tech job, and he is smart, but he often criticizes me for using "those damn big words" when they are in fact common.

The last time he did I concluded he was actually very stupid with English. :|
 
Krynn72 said:
lol stven iz a fekn feg 4 typn n dis stupd way, wut a feg nrd who thnks he iz sum putin feg
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i m putin u fkn bitch feg dat likz hiz own mum nd ur da nrd 4 kaln ma tipn stupid im not da rtrd u r feg
 
My dad is horrible with writing txts like this. Not only does he never use vowels, it's like he never even checks the spelling. So you have to look at each letter of a word you don't understand, look at every other letter on the same key as that and see what he might've mistyped it as :P
 
I only type like a retard in txt messages.

Other than that, I try to use proper spelling and grammar as much as possible... even if it makes me look like an outcast in games such as CS:S.
 
That joke is OOOOOOOLD.

read it in a games magazine a few years ago. Still amuses me, though.
 
Usually on forums, school work, formal letters I type with full English.
Messenger, online games I use mild slang.
nutin lyk diz dats hard... but something which is readable. usually with no capital letters etc.
 
Its good practice to type good English. Plus I get free texts, so I don't worry about spilling over 2 or 3 pages
 
When I text, I type it in full, mainly because it's easier since my phone auto-finishes / completes my word so I save myself the time and hassle needed to fidget for the short form of the word.
 
It makes sense with typing and so much non-verbal communincation that we want to streamline everything to make it easier and faster.
 
Instinct said:
Its good practice to type good English. Plus I get free texts, so I don't worry about spilling over 2 or 3 pages
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You used to do it ALOT. Thank god I grammar nazified you to speed things along.
 
AiM said:
When I text, I type it in full, mainly because it's easier since my phone auto-finishes / completes my word so I save myself the time and hassle needed to fidget for the short form of the word.
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Thats exactly what I do. Someone asked me why I didn't use slang during texts.
 
_Z_Ryuken said:
Change "form an opinion" to "realize a fact". Text speak in jest is one thing, but I have noticed people whom do it constantly are actually quite ignorant, at least literarily.

I have a friend who was an A student and now has a nice tech job, and he is smart, but he often criticizes me for using "those damn big words" when they are in fact common.

The last time he did I concluded he was actually very stupid with English. :|
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i realised some girls who i talk to do it to a point where it becomes really stupid, but after mentioning it to them, it turns out they can actually type like mature people - even though they prefer the just-turned-13 style. I decided to believe it generalises to most people who type in this way.

So "realize a fact" as you said, is wrong imo. They have literary skills but with a different style of writing. When it's a style, who's to judge them? If they are not claiming that their writing style is easier to read then you can't complain.

You cannot say their attempting-to-look-cool-by-replacing-tunes-with-tunez style is any worse than (y)our "proper" english.

Although i hate it, i don't think you can say that any evolution past the queens grammar is wrong.
 
smoke said:
You used to do it ALOT. Thank god I grammar nazified you to speed things along.
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Not really alot, besides I was paying 10p a page then.

Plus I was hit with a wave of coursework :(
 
umm with texting it's completely understandable because if you're like me and have to text with 1 letter at a time where youhave to choose your letters also...then the task of texting in proper english is twice as long and annoying as hell..so i'll abbreviate and use slang whenevr i text.
 
W4E said:
i realised some girls who i talk to do it to a point where it becomes really stupid, but after mentioning it to them, it turns out they can actually type like mature people - even though they prefer the just-turned-13 style. I decided to believe it generalises to most people who type in this way.

So "realize a fact" as you said, is wrong imo. They have literary skills but with a different style of writing. When it's a style, who's to judge them? If they are not claiming that their writing style is easier to read then you can't complain.

You cannot say their attempting-to-look-cool-by-replacing-tunes-with-tunez style is any worse than (y)our "proper" english.

Although i hate it, i don't think you can say that any evolution past the queens grammar is wrong.
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You cannot revoke my claim for two reasons.
1) You cannot gauge a person's literary intellectuality simply by speaking with them for a minute.

2) You did not capitalize 4 of your I's as well as spelled generalizes wrong, thus are incredible. :P :p
 
_Z_Ryuken said:
You cannot revoke my claim for two reasons.
1) You cannot gauge a person's literary intellectuality simply by speaking with them for a minute.

2) You did not capitalize 4 of your I's as well as spelled generalizes wrong, thus are incredible. :P :p
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/generalise

UK <-

In a post earlier i said i do not capitaliSSSSSSe "i"'s unless at the start of a sentence.

And you can guage literary intellectuality to a certain ammount. Maybe you cannot give their exact IQ but you can tell they type "ya" instead of "you" on purpose and aren't ignorant of language.
 
W4E said:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/generalise

UK <-

In a post earlier i said i do not capitaliSSSSSSe "i"'s unless at the start of a sentence.

And you can guage literary intellectuality to a certain ammount. Maybe you cannot give their exact IQ but you can tell they type "ya" instead of "you" on purpose and aren't ignorant of language.
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If you would put your location in your status thingy there in the upper right corner, I would know if you were from the UK.
I am not.

And don't tell me to take my own advice. xD

Gauge. Amount. ;)

I don't want to get into a pissing match over this so let's agree to disagree. I think people whom cannot type out their words in fact have trouble doing so. Spelling errors, everyone makes, except for me because I have an automatic spell checker.

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Ok that's not true. I just noticed I put "fat" instead of "fact" which the check obviously would not catch, but you get the point.
 

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_Z_Ryuken said:
If you would put your location in your status thingy there in the upper right corner, I would know if you were from the UK.
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He shouldn't have to. If you're going to swing around the iron phallus of spelling nazism, you best be aware that more than one valid variety of English exists before you trip up like you have here.
 
kupoartist said:
He shouldn't have to. If you're going to swing around the iron phallus of spelling nazism, you best be aware that more than one valid variety of English exists before you trip up like you have here.
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Don't assume I am not aware of this fact. You had best be aware that if he were in my country he would have been incorrect. I cannot be faulted for "tripping up here" as you say because I was referencing my own [spell checking software] dialect and there was no indication of his own, though grammatical errors run rampant in his post, affirming my position.

Do not make this more serious than it needs to be. Nobody needs you coming out of nowhere just to assert your haughty taughty attitude.
 
You are of course right. Who needs me dropping in and pointing out when you're being an arse?* (or sorry, should that be 'ass' unless I declare in writing that i'm from the United Kingdom and get my official exemption from grammarian tirades?)

*Excepting yourself, apparently.
 
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