Text Speak - a Vent

Mk14:37

Coopdivi wrote: »

People who say 'we' instead of 'I' as in 'we always buy free range sausages'. They must be either Siamese twins or have spouses who are incapable of independent thought.

Or perhaps have spouses who are entirely capable of rational thought and have reached the same conclusion / take the same action?

Blacksheep1979

MothballsWallet wrote: »

What we know as "text speak" evolved from that shortening of words - afaik, lol, iirc, imo, imho are just a few examples.

I remember the mid- to late-1980's where you were lucky if your modem could run at 1,200 baud, and you had to use services like Prestel, CiX or CompuServe to get on line as the internet as we know it was in its infancy and didn't really exist in the UK outside academia.

The speeds seem to be going up there... In old modems baud was synonymous with bit/sec as there was only one bit per symbol so at 1.2k you're getting 150/75 chars a second depending on encoding. Are you seriously saying you were typing faster than that and it wasn't anything to do with laziness?

cgk1

I find posts that start "is it just me?" just as irksome, it is a passive aggressive way of looking for affirmation.

marleyboy

Txt speak irritates me, even in a text massage. I often wonder if this is how exam sheets are filled in nowadays at school. I do blame this non writing society, children doing English with a keyboard n spell checker, I wasn't even allowed a calculator watch when I was in school, nowadays anything that can be learnt on a computer (other than I.T), seems to be the norm in Schools and Colleges.

luxor4t

A few of my pet hates:

"Them ones", "these ones" or "those ones" .... what has happened to 'these' and 'those'?

"Very unique"

"Off of" eg "they got off of the bus"

"Returned back" (I heard that on the BBC!)

The 'text speak' I hate the most is 'OMG' , 'LOL' and, I can barely type it.....'PMSL' :eek:

LadyDee

cgk1 wrote: »

I find posts that start "is it just me?" just as irksome, it is a passive aggressive way of looking for affirmation.

Is it? The reason I asked in that way was because I hadn't seen the question posted here before and I really did wonder if I am the only one. Obviously I'm not.

So sorry if I irked you.

FATBALLZ

Coopdivi wrote: »

People who say 'we' instead of 'I' as in 'we always buy free range sausages'. They must be either Siamese twins or have spouses who are incapable of independent thought.

Or they might just do the weekly shopping together...

Valli

could of
would of
should of

it's HAVE or 've

could've
would've
should've

Morty_007

:rotfl:

marleyboy wrote: »

Txt speak irritates me, even in a text massage.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::T

Indie_Kid

trisontana wrote: »

Another problem with "text speak" concerns those visually impaired people who use "speak aloud" software on their computers."Txt spk" just confuses it and makes it "speak" nonsense.

This is true. I once received a text message (I have speech software on my phone) which involved the word "your". It was spelt "ur". My speech program read that as "ugh". (as in, "ugh, that's gross!")

should've

Google Chromes' spell checker doesn't recognise should've as a word. It also doesn't recognise "Google" as a word either.:rotfl: