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Post by frankiegth on Mar 7, 2006 10:54:20 GMT
What are your opinions of this method of communication. Personally I look on it as a bastardization of a beautiful language rather than evolution of English. Things are bad enough with those w**kers across the atlantic spelling words phonetically but, text (txt) is a step too far for me. What with the influences of hip hop and rap sneaking into everyday usage as well where's it all going to end. By the way text is not new. For those of a certain age (cough,cough) may remember a certain two Ronnies sketch. F.U.N.E.M ? F.U.N.E.X ?
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Post by medibot on Mar 7, 2006 11:29:27 GMT
Well i text in full sentences with punctuation As do a lot of my friends. Mind you, i doubt we really count for much considering the illiteracy and shabby abbreviations shown in the average text.
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Post by samd on Mar 7, 2006 12:10:50 GMT
Bare in mind that it is better to use text language when sending a text message because if you use the full spelling then it is possible that your message will take up more then one page and will cost more to send.
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Mar 7, 2006 13:26:59 GMT
S. V F M N X! I'm with Lynne Truss on this one I too tend to use proper words 'n stuff when texting! ;D My kids do not. It takes me ages to work out what my younger daughter wants (Other than a lift somewhere, or money ) when she texts me. I sometimes have to phone her to find out - which surely defeats the object of the thing! To make things worse, their mother has also started to use abbreviations when texting. And because mobiles seem to be interchangeable in their household, I never know who it is that wants me for something
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Post by coops on Mar 7, 2006 13:50:48 GMT
I thnk its blx
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Post by medibot on Mar 7, 2006 14:10:04 GMT
Predictive text and a few shortcuts like ye instead of you and & instead of and as well as proper abbreviations usually keep me in the one text limit. If i have more to say, phone the person up
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Post by ambersalamander on Mar 7, 2006 15:50:13 GMT
Sorry, but "ye" really, really annoys me when it is ALWAYS used instead of "you" -isn't "ye" a plural? Bare in mind that it is better to use text language when sending a text message because if you use the full spelling then it is possible that your message will take up more then one page and will cost more to send. Disagree! I ALWAYS use full words in text messages, and if they take up more than one, I edit them. The worst thing ever is people who use "txt" speak on internet forums -UGH! or emails -UGH! or even -shudder- handwritten notes. I admit to being a snob of the English language, but I'm sorry. I can't help loving my mother tongue, although I like very much to play with it!
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Post by medibot on Mar 7, 2006 22:26:08 GMT
btw, 'ye' in case you're wondering, i only used to use when i had to shorten a text slightly and didn't want to lose the meaning. Though nowadays it just pops up anywhere with no pattern, sometimes you, sometimes ye, i'm allowed one flaw I have a book on the origin of English words called Balderdash & Piffle that you'll probably like, i'll lend it to ye when i'm finished reading it myself
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Post by DJhinckley on Mar 7, 2006 22:26:13 GMT
text messaging? spunk of the devil more like! I ban it on my message board, if the kids want to have their say, fair enough, but they can say it like other normal human beings or they can f**k off and stare at empty space as I wipe whatever they've wrote. Just how much time does it save? Minutes? Seconds? Less? all it is, is leave out a few vowles here and there, hardly a leap forward in communication. so why not just use all the right letters in the right order... and if you need a book for the english language all you actually need is roger melly's profanasaurus... did spunk make it past the swear filter? yeaaaaaa.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Mar 7, 2006 22:40:33 GMT
I hate text speak and always use proper English in text messages, people who use text abbreviations really annoy me, especially when its not even a mobile, I've been known on several occasions to get annoyed with people purely for saying 'da' instead of 'the'.
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Post by ojiveojive on Mar 7, 2006 22:58:22 GMT
Iuzbthnsmtmsitrllyannysncnfszpplczidntlvespcsbtwnthwds
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Post by coops on Mar 7, 2006 23:55:05 GMT
I all it is, is leave out a few vowles here and there, hardly a leap forward in communication. so why not just use all the right letters in the right order*cough* vowles?
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Mar 8, 2006 5:41:18 GMT
The only thing i've got againt txt speak is that i haven't a sodding clue wtf most of it means!
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Post by ambersalamander on Mar 8, 2006 12:54:56 GMT
Iuzbthnsmtmsitrllyannysncnfszpplczidntlvespcsbtwnthwds ;D ;D ;D ;D Brilliant!
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Mar 8, 2006 12:55:21 GMT
The only thing i've got againt txt speak is that i haven't a sodding clue wtf most of it means! That's part of the Curse of Middle Age, Sultan. I am reliably informed by a colleague here that the onset of middle age ocurs at 35 - because of the three-score-years & ten thing! I bet there's a few people on here who actually had no idea they were middle aged! Soon, these too will be receiving text messages that make no sense whatsoever. There's nothin you can do about it either.
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