Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Stavros on March 01, 2009, 12:34:42 am
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Why on earth do people have to revert to being lazy on this and other forums by using daft letters eg. WHY........... what have you got
Is it a sad case in this modern world that we live in that some people just cant be bothered in talking a language that we all can understand,personally I think it is dammed rude to do so not everyone understands this text talk gibberish I for one cant stand it let alone understand it.Before anyone gets on his /her high horse and posts a link o what it all means I FOR ONE DONT WANT TO KNOW if I can speak let alone type well everyone else can STOP BEIGN SO LAZY .rant over
Stav
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Nice one Stavros, enough is enough!
BTW, IIOTB
Paul... :-) ok2 ;D
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ARGH even Darlek1 is at it I give up Nos Dawch(good night)
Stav
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I was taking the mick mate, By The Way, I Is Off To Bed. LOL. :-)
:-)
Paul... :-))
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absolutely agree. a lot of the time they only drop 1 or 2 letters so why not take an extra 2 seconds to spell it out properly so normal people can understand.
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So thats SHMBO out of the window then {:-{ the text talk not the wife, just to clear things up on that score :}
I do know what most of the text talk is but try not to use it
R,
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I see what you mean stavros!
http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=15735.msg154192#msg154192
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WTHAYLOA {-) {-) {-) %% %%
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Would that be, "What The Hell All You Lot On About"?
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yep!! :-)) :D :D
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is it because they cannot spell
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Kids use it when they are texting, the whole reason it started was because of the phone company's charging money per letter, so thats why they cut their words. Then from there, it became the normal way to talk on the internet, girls are the worst offenders {-)
I'm only 14 myself, but I don't use text talk, sounds silly, in my opinion!
Jack :-))
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Kids use it when they are texting, the whole reason it started was because of the phone company's charging money per letter, so thats why they cut their words. Then from there, it became the normal way to talk on the internet, girls are the worst offenders {-)
I'm only 14 myself, but I don't use text talk, sounds silly, in my opinion!
Jack :-))
Also they had a limit on the number of characters you could send in any one text message.
Now with the relaxing of some of the restrictions that phone companies use normal talk is slowly coming back (in my family any way)
Good to see you using full words there Jack
R,
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I think so-called txt-spk maybe originated from the ladies in the typing pool. Short-hand typing, as it was known. Radio Hams also use a form of shortened text - especially those who use Morse code. For instance, the letters C and Q (seek you), and K (acknowledge), etc, etc. This obviously saves a lot of time when typing on the Morse key, so shortened text can be useful in the apropriate fields.
Personally I loathe mobile phones and the inane gibberish which comes with text messaging. A recent text ended with 'TMB'. It took an age to realise the caller wanted me to text him back.
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Dear All,
Homo Sapiens started out with grunts and strange noises, and it seems the next generations (God help us all), are rapidly making a re-discovery and reverting back to the future with it.
Mind you, with the way the understanding, mastery, and teaching of the English Language is going it will probably be an improvement! You only have to listen to Radio, TV, and read even sadly the local Rags - let alone any of the National Press - to see what the standard of knowledge is these days. Oh well... I think they call it progress............. or as our dear friend Tony Blurr called it, "ejucation, ejucation, ejucation"............. Anybody seen any improvements since that was said by any chance.........? - oh, apart from blatantly manipulating the statistics and making exams easier to pass of course!
Regards, Bernard
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I agree with you there polaris
apart from blatantly manipulating the statistics and making exams easier to pass of course!
Regards, Bernard
I was in discussion with a youngster about his upcoming exam for motor technologies I got out my old course work and showed it to him, this chap is about to become fully qualified, he was lost!
He has his qualification ! what he was starting after three years of training I had done in the first year!
Help I want to get off!
R,
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The common excuse is "I'm a bit dyslexic".
No just Lazy.
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Hi cat.... Understand what you are saying.
There was a TV program a year or so ago where some 16 year olds were taken back to 1950's schooling.
They had an exam on the first day and a lot of them did quite badly, but they felt rather sick when they were told it was the 11+ exam they had taken.
I looked at GCSE maths paper the other day and could not believe that it was the culmination of a 2 year course.
Its probably just me!
regards Roy
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... my young lad is on the same way (age 15)... if he wants something and I don`t understand I switch my ears off and don`t care about what he say. It all sounds like a verbal breakdance to me...
When he stated, that he had clearly mentioned that he needs to be brought to the station- and now he`s missing the train, I remembered him that he probably might one of the best in that blloming short-forms which nobody can recon, but the D in school in German language say it all! :police:
.... back to the workbench....
Jörg
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Hru? Gr8 2 c u. lmao g2g
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EH? >>:-(
Paul... :-)
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Hru? Gr8 2 c u. lmao g2g
EH? >>:-(
Paul... :-)
How are you? Great to see you. Laughing my *donkey* off, got to go :-))
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New competition for people, translate the Chav O0
"yeah boii i woz wit me mar j init, n i woz smokin a blem n dat gal saw me n she woz checkin dis mandem out init"
Prizes for the winner, a sense of acheivement, and the label official MBM Forum Chav ;)
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Not so much about text talk but on the same lines.
"This is a parody of the song that made English teachers cringe, "The Way I Are" by Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj6QqCH7g0Q
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The ----------wheels-------------have come off >>:-( <*< <:(
Paul... ok2
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All the text speak may be cool. But Jargon can be just as bad.
I say bad, because it means that only 'the few' can understand what we are trying to say. This means if what we are trying to say is of value, it looses some/a lot of its value, as a few/many cannot understand it.
The worst case of jargon I have seen recently was on another model boat forum and was some US navy guy reminiscing about the good old days and used sentences like (sorry terminology is not correct but you will get my drift)
"...then the S3 gets on the G1 and calls for a D7 to squib they SO2..."
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I agree with tigertiger that the excesive use of jargon tends to exclude. The only time jargon is appropriate is when talking with those whom you can be sure understand what you are saying. However, if you are really devious you can use jargon, explain what it means and then your audience feels part of the "in crowd"!
Roger in France
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Hi, wouldn't putting a post through spell check help a would-be-poster see some of these points. I know the wrong word can creep in because it is a correctly spelt word but some posts take a little translating (not anyone here of course). Inadvertent typing of adjacent letters is most often the cause, but I think this is a perennial problem.
regards Roy
PS. I put this through the spell checker and it did not like 'would-be-poster', but suggested 'Wildebeast' instead, who said computers had no sense of humour!
PPS I think I may have upset the computer as it now refuses to spell check this post!
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I am terrible at spelling so have a copy of The Concise Oxford English Dictionary installed on my computer, this said I can still make the odd fluff of things, the English language is such a strange thing.
R,
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I got a text from a friend of my son last week. I've handed it over to those damn fine chaps and chapesses at bletchley park. they've had it a week now, still no luck
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"PS. I put this through the spell checker and it did not like 'would-be-poster'..."
It might be because the Mayhem spell checker cannot handle hyphenated words. It might also be because you used one too many hyphens between the "be" and "poster".
In a similar vein, we were gently reminded soon after this forum began that the reason for many of the poor spelling and grammatical errors is not down to laziness on the author's part, but merely down to the fact that many simply did not have access to schooling or education. Also, a fair amount of older members had to leave school at the tender age of fourteen - sometimes younger - and had to go out into the big world to bring money into the home. Ergo, were robbed of the chance of learning even the very basics of English.
In this modern world, there really is no excuse for any schoolkid not to learn how to pen a legible letter... not unless the teacher's teaching them are themselves just plain dopey.
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If mobile phones and tv/film had been available in the stone age nobody would have bothered inventing writing and reading. Face it - it's obsolescent technology.
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Homo Sapiens started out with grunts and strange noises, and it seems the next generations (God help us all), are rapidly making a re-discovery and reverting back to the future with it.
Very good, Bernard O0 I love it :-))
I agree with Stavros, and like him, absolutely loathe "txt talk". I refuse to use it. With the predictive text facility available on most mobile phones, it is almost as quick to type the full word anyway, and far more intelligible, to me, at least.
Peter.
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If mobile phones and tv/film had been available in the stone age nobody would have bothered inventing writing and reading. Face it - it's obsolescent technology.
Try telling that to those who have to rely on text subtitles when watching their favourite TV prog'.
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Even worse is elite speak.... Spelled - " l337 5p34|<"
Video game and online "5p34(|-|".
See this comic for an extended example..
http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/347
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All the text speak may be cool. But Jargon can be just as bad.
do you mean bad as in cool bad {-)