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[SoulKiss]

Why is it that many people seem to believe that the letter "U" is an acceptible substitution for the letters "OO".

The number of times I see people writing online such rubbish as "gud" the more I despair.

Well rant over.

David

[Filipe M.]

Why is it that many people seem to believe that the letter "U" is an acceptible substitution for the letters "OO".

The number of times I see people writing online such rubbish as "gud" the more I despair.

Well rant over.

David

Well, isn't it?... :? I is confoosed! :?

[SoulKiss]

LOL!!!!!!!

[Scoobs]

I always find that OO is a good substitute for U....as in fOOked for example.

[Law]

y do u h8 txtspk?

[keithd]

lul :D

[SoulKiss]

When INTENTIONALLY misspelled - like to avoid sensorship thats fine.

But when someone writes that they had got "hucked" on biking I got confused (confoosed ??? :P ) myself.

Is hucked (I figured it rhymed with erm f... erm ducked yes ducked will do) and wondered if it was just some regional slang.

Nothing personal in this, I see it from a lot of people in a lot of places, just wondered if I was the only person it annoys.

David

[Kinvig]

Good rant. Are you Viktor Medrew in dizguise.

and wot happened to the colour avatar image of yersel?

[SpankyHam]

heut dei blade gauschn!

[keithd]

text speak is one of my intense dislikes. when i text use long or "normal" language.

[SoulKiss]

y do u h8 txtspk?

Would the fact, that to me, it makes people seem to be lazy, illiterate, idiots be enough for you?

Makes me want to quote that great man

"English Motherf*&^er, do you speak it?"

When you are on a mobile phone it is marginally acceptible, after all the keypad is not really designed for text input, but on a computer - well if you what you have to say is not important enough to you for you to type it properly, then why should I give it any import or even pay attention to it?

I rarely server send SMS's from my phone because of the time it takes to input full words with punctuation. I usually just make a call and leave a voice-message.

:P :D :)

David

[Scoobs]

when i text use long or "normal" language.

As do I!

[SoulKiss]

Good rant. Are you Viktor Medrew in dizguise.

and wot happened to the colour avatar image of yersel?

Remember that I live close enough to you to come give you a slap :P

Hehe

and you managed to spell colour correctly when there was a perfectly good alternative in color :P

David

[Law]

y do u h8 txtspk?

Would the fact, that to me, it makes people seem to be lazy, illiterate, idiots be enough for you?

Makes me want to quote that great man

"English Motherf*&^er, do you speak it?"

When you are on a mobile phone it is marginally acceptible, after all the keypad is not really designed for text input, but on a computer - well if you what you have to say is not important enough to you for you to type it properly, then why should I give it any import or even pay attention to it?

I rarely server send SMS's from my phone because of the time it takes to input full words with punctuation. I usually just make a call and leave a voice-message.

:P :D :)

David

Wow, just jesting. I use (not so) predictive texting and normal unshortened words on mobiles.

[SoulKiss]

Wow, just jesting. I use (not so) predictive texting and normal unshortened words on mobiles.

LOL - why do you think I said "people" and not "you" in my response :P

You did make a good point, tho, and I responded to your point rather than you (if you get my meaning)

Made me laugh when I 1st saw it - wondered which joker would come up with that 1st

The main point I was trying to make is that txtspk finds its way into "Real" language far too easily, and as such you end up with a generation of people who use gud instead of good and dont realise that is not correct, and that it has a negative effect on people who know its not correct.

Language SHOULD be allowed to evolve - look at Japanese they just grab words and make them their own - I mean who else would call a Suit (as in clothing) a Sabiru (might be mis-spelt) which is the approximation of Savile Row.

David

[Kinvig]

Good rant. Are you Viktor Medrew in dizguise.

and wot happened to the colour avatar image of yersel?

Remember that I live close enough to you to come give you a slap :P

Hehe

and you managed to spell colour correctly when there was a perfectly good alternative in color :P

David

Booga!

[mattSV]

Why is it that many people seem to believe that the letter "U" is an acceptible substitution for the letters "OO".

The number of times I see people writing online such rubbish as "gud" the more I despair.

Well rant over.

David

I think that they are just lazy coonts.

[Marshall]

y do u h8 txtspk?

Would the fact, that to me, it makes people seem to be lazy, illiterate, idiots be enough for you?

Makes me want to quote that great man

"English Motherf*&^er, do you speak it?"

When you are on a mobile phone it is marginally acceptible, after all the keypad is not really designed for text input, but on a computer - well if you what you have to say is not important enough to you for you to type it properly, then why should I give it any import or even pay attention to it?

I rarely server send SMS's from my phone because of the time it takes to input full words with punctuation. I usually just make a call and leave a voice-message.

:P :D :)

David

LOL!!!!!!!

Urm isnt lol one of them horrible text speak things??

[SoulKiss]

LOL!!!!!!! Urm isnt lol one of them horrible text speak things??

No, because its a TLA (Three Letter Acronym)

Acronyms are ok - I use about a million of them every day (working in IT, especially with TCP/IP and being the addressing maintainer for your AS with RIPE will do that to you :)

:P

David

[Jabba]

when i text use long or "normal" language.

As do I!

Me too. I even make sure that the punctuation is alright, too. Texts take forever to type, which is why I hardly ever do these days.


Do you think that this is something that just affects us "chaps of a certain age"? :wink:

[Baph]

LOL!!!!!!! Urm isnt lol one of them horrible text speak things??

No, because its a TLA (Three Letter Acronym)

Acronyms are ok - I use about a million of them every day (working in IT, especially with TCP/IP and being the addressing maintainer for your AS with RIPE will do that to you :)


SoulKiss, it gets worse when you work in the SCM (Supply Chain Management) industry. The apps our company write are things like WMS, TMS, YMS, SAM and all saved in a folder named SCM. We have an EDI error well, naturally all of this is done via TCP/IP, mainly TCP infact, but some of the EDI transactions happen in UDP, the TCP EDI is done via XML in the later apps. Some of our clients use RTIMs & some VTIMs. All our apps (except RTIMs) output in HTML from a WO Worker.

Backups are done either onto DVD or DAT usually, and of course, we have to follow ISO standards.

And dont even get me started about the woes of trying to use a DB setup by (or using the client of) Oracle 10g!

All of the above is only a tiny snapshot of what springs to mind, and yes, my desk is littered with postit nots that define acronyms!
This is just the

[Caddy2000]

:shock:

I'm a long hander (behave, especially you! Yes you know whom I am talking about), but that has mainly been to try and get a grip on my dyslexia.
I have an avvid hatred of text speak and usually end up shouting at my phone
DUCK OFF AND FIE!!!!!!!!!



It's true

[SoulKiss]

:shock:

I'm a long hander (behave, especially you! Yes you know whom I am talking about), but that has mainly been to try and get a grip on my dyslexia.
I have an avvid hatred of text speak and usually end up shouting at my phone
DUCK OFF AND FIE!!!!!!!!!



It's true

Not to poke fun at anyone, but apart from the old "Why is Dyslexia so hard to spell" gag that usually goes around with a few other wisecracks, anyone else notice that a work that is hard to spell, used by people with spelling difficulties has a great anagram???

DYSLEXIA

DAILYSEX

David

[Lissa]

when i text use long or "normal" language.

As do I!

Me too. I even make sure that the punctuation is alright, too. Texts take forever to type, which is why I hardly ever do these days.


Do you think that this is something that just affects us "chaps of a certain age"? :wink:

Ahem!!!

The last time I looked I wasn't a chap :shock:

I also loathe text speak and lazy spelling. Maybe it IS a generation thing.............we all belong to a generation who were actually taught correct spelling, grammer and punctuation. Apparently, when marking exams these days, marks are NOT deducted for bad spelling :roll: Not sure how true that is, but it wouldn't surprise me, the way exams have been dumbed down.

[Caddy2000]

It's not hard to spell at all really; it's very phonetic
(it spell like it sounds - Justmac650)

But I have never heard that one before...... :smt015

[philipMac]

While we are at it...

too means "as well" / "also".

"I was there too."

Not the same as to. "I went there to burn his house down."

See? Different.


Not sure why that winds me up. But it does.

[TVR_Tracy]

I'm not dim by any stretch of the imagination, but I am guilty of using text speak *hides*... as I fail to grasp how predictive text works :lol: ... and "tomorrow" is such a pain to txt, when you can say "2mrw" :)

A little tip for all you predictive texters. PLEASE re-read your texts before you send them. It is quite funny/annoying when you get a text from a buddy, saying that they're "in the car"!! when in fact they mean to say "in the bar"!! Arghh :lol: :lol:



PhilipMac I'm with you on the "too" and "to" thing, I find the same with "their", "they're" and "there" :lol: :lol:

Amen :lol:

[Lissa]

While we are at it...

too means "as well" / "also".

"I was there too."

Not the same as to. "I went there to burn his house down."

See? Different.


Not sure why that winds me up. But it does.

Yes, that also winds me up, but the one thing that really makes me want to scream is something I pull my daughter up on all the time.

When relating a conversation she has had with other people, instead of saying 'he said, she said' she says 'he goes, she goes'. It's just WRONG. They didn't GO anywhere, but they did SAY something.

[Warren]

i use u and c sometimes, but that acceptable in my books, anything else isnt.

i.e

i can see u


and


i can c you

[lukemillar]

These wind me up:

;o) :p >< etc.

I don't mind the emoticons because they mean something but this -------> o(>.<)o being ascii Cartman can fook off! I mean what does it mean - sticking a cartman at the end of a sentence??

Oh, and could some please explain what the chicken with the net emoticon means?

Thanks
Luke

[Warren]

:smt117

it means;

"kfc for dinner tointe honey"

[lynw]

To me text speak is fine - on phones.

On a forum it says to me the person really cant be arsed to make an effort over their post, which then makes me wonder why I should make the effort to try and decipher it or bother to reply to it.

Text speak can make something pretty incomprehensible. Which makes it hard for people to know what to reply to.

ps. jonboy, did TSM ever reply on the fizzlation automation? :wink: :P :lol:

[fizzwheel]

I hate text speak. It drives me bonkers. http://www.advrider.com/forums/images/smilies/dog.gif

I work in IT so I'm used to acronyms, however I've been on two Cisco VOIP training course in the last month or so. Its acronymmungus. :evil:

[21QUEST]

Great! Old codgers whinging again :shock: :roll:




















:lol: .

I don't really understand why people use it indiscriminately. I couldn't even do it properly even if I wanted to as I don't really know how to to be honest. Quicker to just spell it correctly than trying to work how to do it in txtspk :P .

Why is it fine on the phone? Surely if it's incomprehensible on a monitor it's going to be the same on a phone screen :? .

Another thing I hate is getting PMs or Emails without any sort of salutation. It's not so bad if it's not the first contact but when it's the initial contact :x :? .

Cheers
Ben

[lynw]

Why is it fine on the phone? Surely if it's incomprehensible on a monitor it's going to be the same on a phone screen :? .

Because a phone is usually small screen, small keyboard and older phones confined your character limit.

The forums arent subject to those constraints so it made sense to do it on a phone where there was a need but not on a forum like this with people using full sized keyboards, monitors etc.

Thats why I said phone - fine it makes sense and there was a reason for it. Here there isnt imo. :P :lol:

[Dicky Ticker]

If at the end of it all the party you are trying to communicate with gets the full gist of what you are trying to relay I can't see the problem with using modern idiom's,after all we have been using abbreviations since the beginning of the English language and many of them aren't even in English. I being of the older generation maybe don't agree with it, but I do accept it/them as modern usage of
our language


Now ALGEBRA I have always considered useless,when the correct numerals can be used in place of the algebraic symbols

[21QUEST]

Why is it fine on the phone? Surely if it's incomprehensible on a monitor it's going to be the same on a phone screen :? .

Because a phone is usually small screen, small keyboard and older phones confined your character limit.

Now I think of it , that'll be even worse. Atleast with a monitor you are usually sat down and also see a lot more of the txtspk(had to double check the spelling) in one go :)

The forums arent subject to those constraints so it made sense to do it on a phone where there was a need but not on a forum like this with people using full sized keyboards, monitors etc.

When you are up against some very fast typing folks, it does make sense :? :lol:

Thats why I said phone - fine it makes sense and there was a reason for it. Here there isnt imo. :P :lol:

What ever :P :wink:



Really I can sort get what you are saying but even with my cheap phone I try not to be lazy as I think it's still bad form.

All said justmacsv650 makes a good point as we all seem to have our own personal 'Don'ts' and wotnots :P

If at the end of it all the party you are trying to communicate with gets the full gist of what you are trying to relay I can't see the problem with using modern idiom's,after all we have been using abbreviations since the beginning of the English language and many of them aren't even in English.


Cheers
Ben

ps: justmacsv650, I believe you meant to say Roman Numerals. No?

[northwind]

I write everything out longhand, even in texts. I think it annoys people sometimes :) Especially when I'm drunk, I like to write meandering essays or diatribes. If it's too much hassle to type out in full, it probably wasn't worth saying...