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So say what you will, but yes, I'm a Facebook whore. I have a friend on there- more of an anquaintance really, who always posts crap like this:
Am i wrong for tellin my bro to just let things go? I dnt knw wat to do im so hurt i hate when people lie n break promises tht is my biggest pet peave someone help me plz!
Note: I didn't change anything she wrote... it's all unfiltered, missing letter, missing caps and what not.
Here is my response:
Not to be mean, but one of my biggest pet peeves is the absolute butchering of the English language... dnt knw wat? I know what you're saying but if I was an English Teacher I'd probably have an aneurysm.
I know there are many on here like my that "hte whyn ppl fck up the englsh langge." [Rant1]
Bailey Guns
08-02-2011, 16:23
Im Dwn Widdat, Yo!
UberTong
08-02-2011, 16:24
Amen. Down with the tardbaskets.
I agree, Ronin, but it's a different world. When I text my niece and nephew they always berate me, telling me that they don't want to read the novel I just wrote - and it was only a sentence, fully formed, with punctuation. It's like some crazy acid trippin' meathead took shorthand, combined it with court reporting, married it to ebonics and called it a language.
UberTong
08-02-2011, 16:25
I agree, Ronin, but it's a different world. When I text my niece and nephew they always berate me, telling me that they don't want to read the novel I just wrote - and it was only a sentence, fully formed, with punctuation. It's like some crazy acid trippin' meathead took shorthand, combined it with court reporting, married it to ebonics and called it a language.
That's comedy Ranger, you the man. [ROFL1][Beer]
Zundfolge
08-02-2011, 16:26
Unless one is captioning photos of cats engaged in humorous hijinks, the abuse of the English language only serves to make one look ignorant.
Unless one is captioning photos of cats engaged in humorous hijinks, the abuse of the English language only serves to make one look ignorant.
+1
Unless one is captioning photos of cats engaged in humorous hijinks, the abuse of the English language only serves to make one look ignorant.
I also makes you look lazy and disrespectful. It says to me that the sender is telling me you're not worth the time and effort to use proper English.
funkfool
08-02-2011, 16:40
Unless one is captioning photos of cats engaged in humorous hijinks, the abuse of the English language only serves to make one look ignorant.
I can haz cheezeburger!
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/funny-pictures-youre-welcome.jpg
The future readers of our Constitution see something like this:
we da peeps, of da u s, in rdr to fom a mo prfekt u n, stablsh just s, etc etc...
http://ecdn0.hark.com/images/000/002/314/2314/original.jpg
Bailey Guns
08-02-2011, 17:01
I despise text messages.
I'm no fan either, but had to finally acquiesce lest I be left out in the 90's with no way to communicate with the younger generation nor get the message that we are out of milk. :)
That annoying NEA bumper sticker should read, "If you CAN"T read this, thank a (government school) teacher."
I gave up on trying to fix people's language skills on Facebook a long time ago...it's like trying to change the orbit of the sun by trying to shoot it with your BB gun.
argonstrom
08-02-2011, 18:15
You assume people will even try to read the Constitution in the (very near) future.
Robby30-06
08-02-2011, 18:19
Unless one is captioning photos of cats engaged in humorous hijinks, the abuse of the English language only serves to make one look ignorant.
+2. Even when i text i try to use proper grammar. Yes it drives the younger crowd nuts but if we don't try to save it, who will know how to use it properly?............like many other things, the constitution comes to mind.
u no a wut iz a sayn? [M2]
I don't even know how they do it whilst texting. If I trid 2 txt lyk ths my phne wud autocorrect it.
DSB OUTDOORS
08-02-2011, 18:40
I don't Text much at all!! But atleast my phone gives the option to complete a word with spell check. Enter the first 2 -3 letters sor comes up sorry, tap the screen there. None of this lol, bff Bull Crap!! I prefer to talk to some one not guess what the hell their tring to say!!!! [Beer]
I text message, but at least I spell the words out. Reading shorthand texts is very annoying. Sure it takes me longer to text, but I still get the message across.
I don't text.
...and I thought I was the last remaining person in that column.
I would just immediately defriend that person. I also do not respond to texts that are written like that.
blacklabel
08-02-2011, 19:40
The majority of my friends and I all text using proper punctuation and spelling. I usually just "hide" people that write like a 'tard on Facebook. Definitely one of my major pet peeves. It's even worse when I see it in work related e-mail.
StagLefty
08-03-2011, 07:24
I would just immediately defriend that person.
?????? What the hell does that mean ?? "defriend a person" [ROFL1]
Just like you can add someone as a friend, you can remove them as a friend as well. I'm de-friending the whole lot of them and putting a link to my Google+ account instead. I hate Facebook. I don't have a LOT of folks on Facebook, but it's around 500 or so and my new Google+ I'll probably keep to under 100. I've got LinkedIn for the business contacts, the Google+ is for everyone else.
n8tive97
08-03-2011, 07:37
I love to txt! I would rather read the poor english than listen to someone speak it!
StagLefty
08-03-2011, 07:38
I'll just stick to my stone age internet ways. I don't text,facebook,twitter, etc.
And I agree with the OP about not butchering the English language. [Beer]
I have to admit that texting has been a pretty good technology for me and my guys. When someone is tied up with something and you don't want to interrupt them (like when I'm in a meeting) texting has been a great way to do it. Of course we all speak English when doing that.... Everyone in my companies know better than to send me that nonsense "textspeak" lest I ignore them then berate them for their stupidity!
I'll just stick to my stone age internet ways. I don't text,facebook,twitter, etc.
And I agree with the OP about not butchering the English language. [Beer]
+1 [Coffee]
n8tive97
08-03-2011, 08:31
I have to admit that texting has been a pretty good technology for me and my guys. When someone is tied up with something and you don't want to interrupt them (like when I'm in a meeting) texting has been a great way to do it.
+1, couldn't agree more, not to mention I get sick of talking on the phone!
Another plus to texting is the communication between my pre-teen daughter and I has drastically improved, except when she text me from her bedroom and asked what was for breakfast! [Rant1]
Best response to a text ever was as follows:
Sender: How R U?
Me: I'd like to buy a vowel!
Sender: sy wht?
Me: I'd like to guess the sentence!
Every time I "interpret" some string of characters written like that, I feel like we're edging closer to Idiocracy.
H.
Yea, there have been a few times where I read some idiotic text message and felt just a little dumber for reading it.
Zundfolge
08-03-2011, 10:59
Every time I "interpret" some string of characters written like that, I feel like we're edging closer to Idiocracy.
Very rarely do I agree so completely with something Hoosier has said.
[Beer]
Best response to a text ever was as follows:
Sender: How R U?
Me: I'd like to buy a vowel!
Sender: sy wht?
Me: I'd like to guess the sentence!
You just earned 10 awesome points.
You just earned 10 awesome points.
[ROFL1] It's what I do... love to mess with my friends. Worst part is, even after about five minutes of giving not-so-subtle hints they still don't understand what I'm referring to.
alan0269
08-03-2011, 21:52
I agree, Ronin, but it's a different world. When I text my niece and nephew they always berate me, telling me that they don't want to read the novel I just wrote - and it was only a sentence, fully formed, with punctuation. It's like some crazy acid trippin' meathead took shorthand, combined it with court reporting, married it to ebonics and called it a language.
That's comedy Ranger, you the man. [ROFL1][Beer]
Unfortunately, it doesn't fall into the comedy category as much as it falls into the "sad but true" category. I find it exhausting trying to read some of the crap kids (and some adults) are texting and emailing these days.[Bang]
hell you should see some of my wifes 7th graders. I read some of their papers and they were literally written like a kid sending a text messing.
L8R = later
u = you
unbelievable. she racked them over the coals, failed all those papers and stopped accepting them. Amazingly they turned it around and the papers later in the year were pretty well written.
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