Proper English

Originally Posted by shadowlink56

I think it comes from too much cell phone texting where you pay for the letter. That really sped the butchering process up.
In a sense, it wasn't being lazy, but trying to be creative in saving a buck that spawned the fad. Just sad really.

Very true. What's even sadder is that when non-english speaking people get their english-texting skills from people who 'txt lyk dis 2 dem' they actually think it's the correct way to write a sentence. The proof is in their papers and they don't even know it's not grammatically correct until they get it back with a red note saying, cum is spelled come, etc.

My advice is to stay away from people who don't put in any effort to use a language in its true and beautiful form. It may influence you little by little and before you know it, you're not only writing it badly but speaking text language as well.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by shadowlink56

Damn man, better leave GFF then! *runs*

Nah, don't do that. Killy got it worse. I had to read the damn conversation out loud, for heaven's sake.

I'll have to admit that I'm guilty of butchering english but at the right circumstances--my msn friends' typing skills exceed my own so I have to shorten words just to keep up. Also it's cheaper here if I send a text message (instead of calling) so I have to really make do with what I have.

Ever have this type of conversation: Нěy, mëë+ üp @ $+aŕ3Uk$ 1ā+ër

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Elixir

That conversation would be awesome, if only it didn't take 10 minutes per message from all the ascii codes splashed in there.

People here text at the speed of, well, they just text really fast. They have speed texting competitions and the like. (Yes, I know, weird.)

Originally Posted by Elixir

Lowercase is fine too, but a lowercase "I" just doesn't fit. Alot of people really couldn't care less about their typing, and that probably won't change.

I know people who still think Word's spellcheck is 100% reliable. Perhaps it's not that they don't care but maybe they depend too much on the grammar nanny to fix their mistakes for them.... What do you think? =P

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Elixir

Ascii isn't texting.

Ascii is where you're talking l¡Ķĕ ╂ĥıŠ. It's annoying, it isn't cool, and I don't know how they manage to find the time to dig up the character codes just for a sentence. Most pointless thing alive.

Hell, they've got them. They've got them like numbers on speed dial.

I guess--to get back to the point--people just have to be aware that online, other people will assume you're at some level of maturity.
I sometimes find it funny that people wnat to write an intelligent article, post it online, and I end up reading about independance, loosing something, or doing things more good...wtf...It'll be the day when someone invents 'duck tape' or 'mannaise'. Hmm. I wonder how that tastes like.

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