he most I'll abbreviate when tweeting is to use w/ for with and 1st for first.
Haha - I know what you mean! I may abbreviate more than that but I still don't use major text-speak very often. :D It's funny how quickly things can change, though, and catch on as trends, ya know?
I'm going to put up a little bit of a defense of young people here because I work with a unique population of them. No, I don't accept written work with any sort of netspeak (or substitution of "to" for "too", for that matter), but I don't think that we are in a position to judge whether a language is moving forward or backward--I don't think anyone is. It could stem from my background in biology, because classifying organisms as "higher" or "lower" and the phrase "devolving" are considered a tad bit offensive in the modern scientific community. I kind of see this argument as something similar, since it's the evolution of language. I think there definitely is an excuse for "where u want 2 go 2nite?": it takes few characters and is faster to type. Its surely not a huge increase in convenience factor, but I don't think that there's anything wrong with young people communicating in a way that makes sense to them. The evolution of language responds to selective pressures in the same way that the evolution of organisms does--judging the
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What I understood from your first comment was that you have a negative opinion of people who use language differently than you do. To me, that is the very definition of elitism. Feel free to believe whatever you want about how language should be used, but it makes me cringe to see judgments being made based on any sort of lifestyle assessment, be it agist, racist, or dialectal. Your very statement of saying that you know better than to use the number "2" directly implies the inherent inferiority of those people who do choose to use the number "2" in lieu of the word "to
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textspeak drives me crazy. I try not to use it, and would never use it in a business setting. I also HATE those messages "sent from my iphone" and the like.
I often drive people crazy because I spell everything out. I recently made a concession to that when we had to go back and redo over 100 boxes of inventory by hand when I lost our packing list in my recent hard drive crash but as I retype it it's in full words. :)
I think that it depends for me, whether or not I'm going to spell things out. I mean, sometimes I will send an email with just a subject line if it's a quick message to someone I work with every day; but I would NEVER, EVER send a message like that to someone super senior or someone I haven't worked with in the past, ya know?
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Haha - I know what you mean! I may abbreviate more than that but I still don't use major text-speak very often. :D It's funny how quickly things can change, though, and catch on as trends, ya know?
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Funny how quickly things change...
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