Using texting talk in posting.

[sum1cull911]

Unfortunately I know people who actually use text abbreviation in their everyday conversations. I can't believe they are too lazy to actually say the words.

Maybe they think it's cool to talk like that... That's even worse. lol

[LetsSeeYa]

I use a pencil to type with, because of issues with dexterity, but to use text short cut crap is nuts here. I hate to text though, freaking call me! To often the message gets lost in translation and if spelled out correct, it would had saved more time to understand the original message. Il be the first to say i cant spell, but i try, and use the spell check. So yeah i pretty much dont read to much slang, i really dont understand even the text stuff, i gotta text back and:wtf: which takes more time. Man i hate it. Abbreviate is different, we all have heard it some place and if not, its easily understood or i wouldn't use it. I want my message to get understood, not sure why some might want to target only a select few for help with their prize plant.


Thats my take and im sticking with it, lol.:hippy:


:rasta:

[Weezard]

Yep, guilty here too . . .

Not so guilty.
You know the proper use of ellipses.
If anyone else is interested;
Ellipses : Grammar Girl :: Quick and Dirty Tips â?¢


I can understanding folks using texting abbreviations when they are texting. I suppose that even some forum board posts are being made from a cell phone. Again, that makes sense to abbreviate. If you've ever tried to used those tiny keyboards, you know what a pain it is to type anything of any length. It's a mistake to equate texting language with lack of education.

That said, I'm sure some folks use that all the time regardless of where they are posting from. I'm like the original poster. If a post is in abbreviated jargon, I don't read it.

Yup, I don't have the time to figure out their timesavers.

I'm old, less flexible, and have less patience for new things as time goes by. I'm sure the younger folks look at dudes like me and think, "who cares what that dinosaur thinks?" They better stay off my dang lawn though . . . :wtf:

But, if da OMG WTF kine D00Ds need ancient knowledge, dey jus' gonna hafta learn "Fogey".
Or pidgin.

If the meaning is clear, it's all good, yah?

Aloha,
Weezard

[tikiroom]

Weezard,

I always enjoy reading yours and a few others posts on here that type in "pidgin". It takes me back about ten years to when I was hangin' out with a buddy that was from the main island.

[BlueBlazer]

No side discussion of ellipses would be complete without quoting one of my favorite bits from Sling Blade by Morris "the modern-day poet, kinda like in olden times." :wtf:

[attachment=o261770]"Then like in poetry I go dot-dot-dot, you know, kinda off center, then I drop down and then I go: "Leavin' his soul! And partin' the waters of the medulla oblongata of - -brrrrrr! - -mankind!"

That's good stuff right there. :S2:

[gypski]

Texting as a written language may one day be a spoken language. Its like humanity is going in reverse or coming around to the beginning again. Slang is the language of the uneducated when used constantly. But what do I know because I don't have any need to text anyone an press three time to get the last letter in the key. Hell, if my phone rings, its someone who got through the do not call listing or rings once and no message!!! Phone ghost or something!! :S2:

[RedLocks]

Unfortunately I know people who actually use text abbreviation in their everyday conversations. I can't believe they are too lazy to actually say the words.

hah, yeah I met someone that did a text abbreviation while talking, might not have blinked if it was some ditzy white chick in the burbs somewhere, but nahh, black chick in Harlem tells mi "omg" when I say I think I dropped my phone under the table....nearly slapped her

[420marijuana420]

I'm twenty years old and my high school provided me with an excellent education, especially considering that it was free. When I graduated high school I got a scholarship that pays 75% of my tuition and a financial aid set up that gives me 2,000 a semester. With that and a job I'm almost making it. Fortunately my parents have quite a bit of money and can help me wherever I come up short so I don't have to take out loans. Just like anything else, the opportunity is out there. It is in no way the school's fault. If the kids want to learn they will, if not they won't. To blame anyone else but the person in question is a cop out. Furthermore, I don't write in text talk unless I'm sending a text message. When I am the only reason I write like that is for the purpose of short hand. On social networking sites or anywhere else on the internet I write like I was not raised by livestock. But it is not the school's fault. You have to work for what you want in this world. If you want to just give up and quit, then fine. If you want to stop learning (education will never stop for me, even after I graduate) then fine. But do not blame someone else for your choices.

edit: Private education is a waste of money. If you're sending your kid to a top boarding school and you're going to buy their MBA via donations to the school's library then that I can completely understand. But unless you have money like that, private school is a waste of money. I went to a private elementary school and when I got out I had the same education as my high school peers. Theirs just did not cost 36,000 over nine years. There were kids from my elementary school who went to the next (private) high school school on the track of our (private) elementary school and my SAT scores were just as good as theirs were. My SAT scores HAD to be good for me to get me scholarship and I achieved that without a problem at a public high school.

[weeddaddy50]

Just spell out the words......I hate this the most.

Stoner...hr....can...u...tel.....m.....how t....gro.....wed?

see that post almost once a week.

[LetsSeeYa]

I'm twenty years old and my high school provided me with an excellent education, especially considering that it was free. When I graduated high school I got a scholarship that pays 75% of my tuition and a financial aid set up that gives me 2,000 a semester. With that and a job I'm almost making it. Fortunately my parents have quite a bit of money and can help me wherever I come up short so I don't have to take out loans. Just like anything else, the opportunity is out there. It is in no way the school's fault. If the kids want to learn they will, if not they won't. To blame anyone else but the person in question is a cop out. Furthermore, I don't write in text talk unless I'm sending a text message. When I am the only reason I write like that is for the purpose of short hand. On social networking sites or anywhere else on the internet I write like I was not raised by livestock. But it is not the school's fault. You have to work for what you want in this world. If you want to just give up and quit, then fine. If you want to stop learning (education will never stop for me, even after I graduate) then fine. But do not blame someone else for your choices.

edit: Private education is a waste of money. If you're sending your kid to a top boarding school and you're going to buy their MBA via donations to the school's library then that I can completely understand. But unless you have money like that, private school is a waste of money. I went to a private elementary school and when I got out I had the same education as my high school peers. Theirs just did not cost 36,000 over nine years. There were kids from my elementary school who went to the next (private) high school school on the track of our (private) elementary school and my SAT scores were just as good as theirs were. My SAT scores HAD to be good for me to get me scholarship and I achieved that without a problem at a public high school.

REP+


Wish my daughter looked for help with college. To damn lazy, but as smart as most people i know. My ex, her mother is the same way, brainy. But dont take advantage of it, i just dont understand why a person would not want to expand their minds to the max. I give ya major props bro, life is about not always taking the easy way out and most kids dont think like this till its to late.

I ask my daughter what she liked best, a orange or banana? Her reply was ''well the banana is easier''FTW:wtf:. She is in college now and could do a lot, because she is so smart, but its all book smarts. I worry about this, i guess because i believe in paying attention to any and everything and you will learn things that will help you in your future. But hell, nothing:wtf:

Id imagine you have some good parents to raise such a bright young man:thumbsup:



All the best to ya my young brotha:rasta: