Do you find text speak insulting/rude?

johnny6 said:
As I said earlier the same could be said about the current language both you and I consider as English.
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Not really seeing as the people who butcher our language on their phones and online are living in the same decade as us - not several generations after us.
 
Lazy? They're translating between languages on the fly. Well sometimes takes me a second or two to decode the meaning of text speak :/

Death penalty to those found using it ouside of text messaging (even though that's still ghay)
 
There is no need for 'txt tlk' any more. The purpose of it was to allow mobile and pager users to fit a maximum of 160 characters into a text message, as that was the size limit back then. We're talking late 90s / early naughties. Messages have since increased to a limit of 640 characters. That is the length of a normal email. Most phones actually have email. Most phones even have querty keyboards. Text talk should have therefore died with it. Slang words are fine. I can tolerate 'kinda', 'gonna', 'innit' etc because they were before phones. When they're writing something like "i think thats stupid now bu i used 2 do it ull become weak nd b pathetic nd useless nd u dnt wnt da du yer all im saying is please dnt self harm its a bicy thing 2 do", then that's irritating.
 
Hate it, it gives me the RAGE! :mad:

I have one friend who uses it when she messages people, if she texted me, I used to reply with "i'll get back to you when you send it to me again in English!" :D She soon got the hint. :p

To me it seems like you would have to put more effort into text speak because you have to work out how to shorten the word each time, by that time I could have typed it normally!
 
Deific said:
Not really seeing as the people who butcher our language on their phones and online are living in the same decade as us - not several generations after us.
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How’s that an argument?

Whenever language moves forward, you will get a transitional period of people claiming to speak it the correct way and people 'dumbing down the language'

We are living during one of those transitional periods.
 
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johnny6 said:
How’s that an argument?

Whenever language moves forward, you will get a transitional period of people claiming to speak it the correct way and people 'dumbing down the language'

We are living during one of those transitional periods.
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Transitions are gradual introductions of new words aswell as current words in a new context. It's not the same when someone simply chooses to write a word abbreviated but still says it the correct (or nearly correct) way.
 
It used to have it's place (to fit a message into 160 chars when mobile phones could not handle multipart messages) but not any more.

I don't think it's rude, but I do think people that use it normally every day such as email or facebook status etc. just seem lazy and uneducated.
 
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Deific said:
Transitions are gradual introductions of new words aswell as current words in a new context. It's not the same when someone simply chooses to write a word abbreviated but still says it the correct (or nearly correct) way.
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Please do point me in the direction of were a transition is given a fixed time frame.

Also it’s not someone it’s a large group of society who have evolved the language they use into the current form of text speak. Whether or not that will have a greater or lasting effect on language as a whole is debatable.
 
Strife212 said:
How dare these poorly educated people try and express sympathy for their loved ones, lets all look down on them :cool:
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Personally I can't stand it and my mates know not to text me with some bloody code that takes me ages to work out. However, this is the way that this bunch of friends communicated to each other when using the written word and I actually thought that regardless of how their words were seen on paper, it was quite moving to read.

Chopping words down and switching them about has been going on for aaaaages. I remember when TV was called The Television Set, a mobie was called a mobile telephone and a pasty was was called a vagina :D:p
 
If it's how they would have spoken to each other in real life, it's how they should leave their tributes. At least this is how it seems to me.

If they posted "I will miss thee cousin mine, for thy passing hath left this world bereft of one of it's angels" or something equally out of character, it strikes me as less heartfelt, pre-prepared and a little stiff, as opposed to genuine grief.
 
simulatorman said:
I find it sad that we have a generation of young people who probably have no reasonable knowledge of the use of the English language and live in a world in which only their peers understand what they are speaking or saying. They can’t be bothered to speak, write and most probably read properly. It’s almost an underclass of uneducated morons. God help them in their lives as no one else will.
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Thank you for insulting my generation, or maybe we text/write like that because it's quicker?
Sure in this situation a line to remember someone they should probably be written formally, but deducing all the above is stupid. I write properly when needed. When it's not I don't.


You think little kids who write "wuu2 bbz" actually literally go up to people and say Double-u U U two to people?
 
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