*snipped from UKP* The Joys of Language

[xalle]

So there’s a discussion going on about language. Ironically someone has managed to get right up my nose by twisting what I have said and putting their own slant on it to serve their own purposes. They combine this with interpreting things that I don’t say as some sort of form of ignorance. However that is not what this blog is about, That’s just an

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[moongazeruk]

Ah - Language and its evolution. This topic has cropped up many a time for me in the last few years, especially on my Lit Specialist course - well, it was over 2 years, and City and Guilds almost made up the curriculum as we went along, but hey ho

[xalle]

Nonsense! Of course people wil remember you!

You make some very interesting points too. Personally I have a real aversion to txt spk unless it is anywhere but a text message, and even then I struggle. I dont mind things like "ur" instead of your but hate things like l8r... but you are right, I suppose it is a form of evolving language. Hmmmmm more to ponder!

[moongazeruk]

LOL - try marking an essay written almost exclusively in text speak. That was great fun :S But, at least the lass did what I asked her to do, and she got pen to paper, which was a major achievement - not that the LSC who funded the course saw it that way, but hey.....

The thing that annoys me most, and this is going slightly off topic is when I get texts from my own daughters that sound like they are 'boyz from da hood" - along the lines of "a got da stuf ya wntd an i gunna get me sum of da...." AARGGHHHH!!!

You will have noticed I use minimal txt speak in my txt msgs - LOL, but most of my friends will not only spell almost everything correctly in a text message, but its all beautifully punctuated as well. Different generations showing different levels of influence, I think.

ps - my most loathed abbreiations are cum instead of come (for obvious reasons, I think) m8 for mate, and da for the - I mean WHY ???? But I quite like 2mrw because its just so much quicker :)

Eek

[moongazeruk]

Just noticed how many typos there are....sorry

Re: Eek

[xalle]

lol

I use predictive text and most of my text messages are complete words with the odd abbreviation to allow for messages to fit into one or two texts to save on the pennies. As for the folks that seem to go from being a white 20 year old girl to a black guy from the bronx... like you.. I'm not only unimpressed, I'm mostly stunned and frankly usually at a loss as to what they are acutally saying.

Poor spelling left in to make you feel better! lmao!