whine whine bitch bitch moan moan oooh.

[mintsui]

It is unbelievably hot outside today. It's not just the heat either, it's the heat accompanied by this abominable humidity. It didn't help that I had to sit a final exam today, either, or that I then sat around and chatted for like three hours with friends. After a while my head started throbbing, it was like my brain was doing this little dance in

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[noctaval]

I think maybe all the world's newspapers are going downhill. Most of the papers here in Florida are so awful I can't read them anymore. They have a lot of factual mistakes, misspellings, and bad grammar. -_-

Yesterday, I heard a scary story on NPR. It stated that a large percentage of teens are using smilies, internet slang, and informal language in their school papers...I think I need to set something on fire.

[odangoatama]

Ew. The worst part? I can completely believe that.

Gross .__. Which is why I hate how people glamorize shorthand. They make it look so "lol kewl" and trendy and funny, but they know kids are going to get so used to it that they'll think it's perfectly fine to pull that crap in class. I can understand not having all the time in the world to sit there and spell something out if you're in a hurry to, say, get to work. But if you're just sitting there talking to a friend, like most teenagers are, two extra letters to make "ur" "your" is not too big of a deal. Personally when I send texts, they're all spelled out. Takes longer, but come on.

I hate people's stupid behavior. Makes our teenagers look like nothing but vapid, brainless wastelands. Aren't we supposed to be *teaching* them otherwise?

Baah. I'll join you in the pyromania.

~*~Me

[mintsui]

Text messages are the BANE of languages worldwide, I tell you!

Sweet deities, I break my brain a little every time someone who doesn't spell their text messages properly sends me a text message and I have to sit there gawking at my cellular's screen for a (very long) while trying to make sense of the strange letters in front of me. It's like a new puzzle to solve, every time!

But then again, cellphones = much grrr'ing from me in general.

[noctaval]

I have bypassed this problem entirely! I can't text! :D

[odangoatama]

I AGREE. Shorthand really didn't get that bad until text messages came along. You'd have an occasional AOL chat-type person using netspeak here and there, but it was nowhere NEAR what it is now @.@

Oh my God, I know. Luckily most of my friends text the way I do, albeit sometimes with an occasional "w8" or something. But when I see excessive shorthand, it seriously does dumbfound me. I sit there staring, wondering how someone more or less my age can willingly speak like they're five. It's like I'm looking at a cleaned-up version of five-year-old scribble, seriously!

~*~Me

[mintsui]

Hahaha, don't I know. When I was a kid I used to think that in other places of the world things were different, like, this can't be the same way in England, what's this way in England can't be the same way in Japan... Then I figured out that "shit" is the same "shit" all over the world. Frankly, I think the world overall has an education problem, exaggerating as that may be. Or maybe I just don't like the sorts of subcultures "them kids" have today.

I've seen those. I've seen students who will remove vowels from words so they are... "typed" quicker. On an exam paper. With a huge smilie at the end of one question where he couldn't do anything at all and thought the big :)) would look cute.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[noctaval]

It's truuuue >_< I've noticed that there are a lot of "typing shortcuts" on our site at work. Most of our users speak Spanish, and I have learned Spanish speakers have a ton of internet things as well... like "k" for "que". I wonder if they use these in class.

Have you seen that "Find X" collection of really poor exam papers? They are hilarious, although they further erode my faith in humanity.

[odangoatama]

XDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!! k for que. Ok, that is hilariously awesome. Now you've got me curious about other languages' shorthand! I may have to look into that.

Thank you for providing the most hilarious new thing I've learned today.

~*~Me