Text talk?

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  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,249 Member
    One of the worst things to ever happen to the English language.

    I've received e-mails from job applicants using text shortcuts.......srsly?
  • katamus
    katamus Posts: 2,363 Member
    I understand all of it just fine. I just think it handicaps people from ever being able to ever write correctly or professionally. Grammar and spelling is horrendous enough already. I'd also like to add that the practice of not capitalizing, which is also pretty rampant, is just as bad to me.

    Let's be friends and make a "proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling" discussion group.

    Tell me, what are your thoughts on the Oxford comma?

    Could you first define the words "colleage" and "b/c"?
  • MrsLeyva11
    MrsLeyva11 Posts: 90
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    Posted this on my sister in law's facebook page and gave her another reason to hate me.
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    Everytime I get a text that says "ilu" I make a point to type back "I love you too" because I FREAKING cannot STAND IT!

    One day, he'll figure it out.

    "ilu" makes me CRAZY. I always look at it and think "what in the hell is an eeloo?"

    If I'm in a really bad mood, I won't even respond.
  • Grlnxtdr0721
    Grlnxtdr0721 Posts: 597 Member
    Agree! It drives me nuts! By the time I have figured out what they are trying to say, I could have sent at least 10 responses, with the vowels attached. I'm 29 and have had to asked my 16 year old cousin what they are saying!
  • katamus
    katamus Posts: 2,363 Member
    Everytime I get a text that says "ilu" I make a point to type back "I love you too" because I FREAKING cannot STAND IT!

    One day, he'll figure it out.

    "ilu" makes me CRAZY. I always look at it and think "what in the hell is an eeloo?"

    If I'm in a really bad mood, I won't even respond.

    You could respond with all of the things you want to say but in just an acronym. He'll never know what you're talking about. "FYYFSASHBS" would work.
  • Turtlehurdle
    Turtlehurdle Posts: 412
    http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/i_wont_hire_people_who_use_poo.html

    Enough said.

    "If you think an apostrophe was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, you will never work for me. If you think a semicolon is a regular colon with an identity crisis, I will not hire you. If you scatter commas into a sentence with all the discrimination of a shotgun, you might make it to the foyer before we politely escort you from the building.

    Some might call my approach to grammar extreme, but I prefer Lynne Truss's more cuddly phraseology: I am a grammar "stickler." And, like Truss — author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves — I have a "zero tolerance approach" to grammar mistakes that make people look stupid."
  • Foxypoo61287
    Foxypoo61287 Posts: 638 Member
    I some times use short cuts. Such as IDK. My brain hurts when I see people who use multiple shortcuts. I want to scratch my eyes out.
  • ablissabby
    ablissabby Posts: 56 Member
    LOL - I'm 35 and I work with high school and college students... I'm such a nerd I am CONSTANTLY using urbandictionary.com to figure out what they are saying! :)
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    u used 2 b cool
  • wildcata77
    wildcata77 Posts: 660
    I understand all of it just fine. I just think it handicaps people from ever being able to ever write correctly or professionally. Grammar and spelling is horrendous enough already. I'd also like to add that the practice of not capitalizing, which is also pretty rampant, is just as bad to me.

    Let's be friends and make a "proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling" discussion group.

    Tell me, what are your thoughts on the Oxford comma?

    Could you first define the words "colleage" and "b/c"?

    Touche`

    And that is why we could be friends.
  • AshleyLo_44
    AshleyLo_44 Posts: 206 Member
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    i need a large box of these to hand out to so many people haha.
  • ZombieChaser
    ZombieChaser Posts: 1,555 Member
    I don't even use it when I text.

    Same here! It takes longer to type, but I care not!
  • abiwotnot
    abiwotnot Posts: 8 Member
    I hate text speak other than "lol" which I feel adds a mood to a text to show you are kidding rather than being sarcastic or mean lol. I love it when my mum uses text speak as I have to ring her to ask her what she's actually trying to say to me! lol.
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 Member
    I already worry about adults and their commonly misspelled words, but adding in all of the awful would-be abbreviations this generation will be barely hovering above literate. It's both terrifying and depressing.

    ^^This. It will be the death of the English language.
  • tdaddybarlow
    tdaddybarlow Posts: 673 Member
    I already worry about adults and their commonly misspelled words, but adding in all of the awful would-be abbreviations this generation will be barely hovering above literate. It's both terrifying and depressing.

    Watch the movie Idiocracy and you'll see where society is going. I hate text talk and the fact that people do not communicate anymore with each other. We have resolved to "like" on any and everything on Facebook. "My mom is in the hospital and about to go into surgery" *like* REALLY?!?!? *like*??? Not I hope she's okay... Praying for her... NO! *like*
    We will soon be a bunch of fat people hooked up to computer screens checking our statuses like on Wall-E.:grumble:
  • corn63
    corn63 Posts: 1,580 Member
    I already worry about adults and their commonly misspelled words, but adding in all of the awful would-be abbreviations this generation will be barely hovering above literate. It's both terrifying and depressing.

    Watch the movie Idiocracy and you'll see where society is going. I hate text talk and the fact that people do not communicate anymore with each other. We have resolved to "like" on any and everything on Facebook. "My mom is in the hospital and about to go into surgery" *like* REALLY?!?!? *like*??? Not I hope she's okay... Praying for her... NO! *like*
    We will soon be a bunch of fat people hooked up to computer screens checking our statuses like on Wall-E.:grumble:

    Love love love Idiocracy. My boyfriend and I are the highly successful couple that don't want kids/can't find the time to have them. My brother would be the other side of the spectrum. :grumble:
  • katamus
    katamus Posts: 2,363 Member
    I already worry about adults and their commonly misspelled words, but adding in all of the awful would-be abbreviations this generation will be barely hovering above literate. It's both terrifying and depressing.

    Watch the movie Idiocracy and you'll see where society is going. I hate text talk and the fact that people do not communicate anymore with each other. We have resolved to "like" on any and everything on Facebook. "My mom is in the hospital and about to go into surgery" *like* REALLY?!?!? *like*??? Not I hope she's okay... Praying for her... NO! *like*
    We will soon be a bunch of fat people hooked up to computer screens checking our statuses like on Wall-E.:grumble:

    I reference that movie all the time! I love it.
  • ammochick
    ammochick Posts: 15
    I agree 100%
  • mamamc03
    mamamc03 Posts: 1,067 Member
    IKR! Jst stp frkng out. k. Txtng is jst awsm! My fav is when im abt to leave and txt the hubs 'OMW'!! Ty 4 lstng!

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