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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[odangoatama]

That's okay, I'll never forget the one day that I was in line at the grocery store and saw a headline on a magazine that read "Who you callin' a..."

I swear, something in my soul retched to see that .__. It's amazing how street-speak and boorish slang have gotten so far into mainstream media, which only makes it look like it's ok to speak that way to the general public. I mean, if you want to use shorthand or slang with your friends, that's one thing, but to people you don't know (or worse, at work)? Frankly, it's repulsive. So I totally empathize.

~*~Me

[mintsui]

Oh, some magazines think it is a-okay to pull off shit like that, because it TTLY allows them to look more sympathetic in the eyes of their buyers. Then they end up putting words that, on the cover of the magazine, look absolutely retarded. It tends to piss me off (mainly it's done by magazines that cater to a teenage/young adult buyer group), but if it's a good marketing strategy, then more power to them.

But then everyone ends up walking, talking, and quacking like a retard. I mean; I speak street-speak IRL, but that's just what I do, I'm a university student yet, but if I were to speak the same way to my professor I would be in quite a bit of trouble. I learned that the hard way, actually.

*facepalm* It's so annnoyyinnnnnnnnnnnngrrrfghhh...

[odangoatama]

Yeah I can definitely see how it looks more sympathetic to OMG TEENZ!!11 This one was aimed more towards...I don't know how to say it without it sounding wrong. Not "ghetto", but I'm sure you know what I mean. That whole subculture. That one and the OMG TEENZ are the two that I note to have the most grammatical..."errors", in their official media. I understand the market will probably be more likely to buy something that doesn't sound pretentious and reads more like they speak casually. That's alright in theory, and I understand it to a degree. But it seems like it's backfiring in the way that it's getting people so used to thinking and speaking that way that they have a hard time turning it off when the situation is inappropriate

[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