Most annoying txt speak

20 Sep 2012

Quote by principessa

You bet!!! Just let me at it.

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20 Sep 2012

Quote by principessa
The faces/expressions made out of punctuation marks drive me crazy. Are we all three years old and unable to read words like grown-ups?

This is not cool (or kewl) but symptomatic of the dumbing down of everything in popular culture. It is a deliberate laziness and ignorance that will not lead to anything good. Try applying to a professional school or for an upper level position writing in text speak. I don't think it will make a great impression. Literacy matters.

(I just read what I wrote and understand that I am now officially an old curmudgeon, but I don't take it back.)

So agree. The aberration of written communication is endemic of falling standards. Although I do like the animations on here. fish

Of all our inventions for mass communication,
pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Walt Disney

21 Sep 2012

Quote by LittleBambi

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21 Sep 2012

I dont really mind 'd txt spch' as long they r easy 2 decode...
But sample this : 'tgif' (?) .. Some abbreviations that would give even Robert Langdon and other cryptos a sleepless night..
After much 'investigation' it was found out to be 'Thank God Its Friday' (tgif)
just 1 word : RIP English silly

22 Sep 2012

Can you imagine how irritating 'txt speak' is to a dyslexic? It actually pisses me off. I've replied "spell it out and resend it or forget it."

22 Sep 2012

It annoys me so much that I stop reading the story. I am non native English speaker and when reading crap (and text speak is) I get lost and annoyed. I don't need to fight through one simple paragraph in erotic story for 5 min to decode it. I simply don't read it entirely if isn't well written. As far as messages and black-boxes goes with text speak, I don't reply to those. I don't mind slang and jargon, however written word in literature should be separated from the rest of communication forms.

22 Sep 2012

Quote by principessa
I just read what I wrote and understand that I am now officially an old curmudgeon, but I don't take it back.)

There are worse things you could be at this stage in your life. 8^)

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17 Oct 2012

Txt speak gets me everytime because I don't text much myself (and never have) so can't follow it. However, I'm an old school IT guy so pre-txt Internet abbrevations (which date to the early days of email when message length was actually an issue) like LOL, ROTFL, etc. are okay in casual usage. However, I'd never use them in a story unless it was in a quote from an email or something.

And, at risk of sounding pedantic, TGIF (cited above) isn't really txt speak and even predates email. The 1978 disco movie Thank God It's Friday used the abbreviation in its promos (I was there, I remember). Still annoying if you've never come across it before, but not strictly txt speak since it was already in the language when texting came along.

20 Oct 2012

replacing the letter "e" with a "3"...seriously?!

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20 Oct 2012

Ma8
Ttfn

28 Oct 2012

It has to be 'kewl' for me! Damn! Why would anyone even say that? dontknow

I have to say, no one has actually texted me it but I have had people on lush message me that!

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28 Oct 2012

Quote by TheDarkKnight
I dont really mind 'd txt spch' as long they r easy 2 decode...
But sample this : 'tgif' (?) .. Some abbreviations that would give even Robert Langdon and other cryptos a sleepless night..
After much 'investigation' it was found out to be 'Thank God Its Friday' (tgif)
just 1 word : RIP English

Umm.. TGIF dates from the nineties, before texts lol smile

28 Oct 2012

Quote by clearwood

Umm.. TGIF dates from the nineties, before texts lol

Older than that, even. The movie TGIF came out in 1978 or so.

Sigh, yes I'm old enough to remember that.

28 Oct 2012

It isn't text speech, but I swear I'm going to do something unnatural to the next person who says 'Ginormous'.

4 Nov 2012

Text speak sucks period. Only when texting, nowhere else. Hell, I could care less if it was outlawed throughout the world.

11 Sep 2013

The word...dude. Look it up, dude.

7 Oct 2013

I hate to see textspeak in a story. I myself am not very proficient in it, having only gotten a phone that was capable of texting in April. (Sighs remember when the word text used to be a noun?) It not only takes too long for me to figure out what is being said, but also makes me wonder what the author had that was more pressing than the story that I am taking time to read. I realize that language is a living thing, it grows, changes, evolves, shedding that which has become useless and multiplying that which is useful. I am guessing that we will just have to make the adjustment....

7 Oct 2013

"K". Why, can't they even type a fucking four letter response?

7 Oct 2013

Quote by TheDevilsWeakness
I'm going to submit a story written totally in text speak. Or maybe just ban all vowels.
I might try it phonetically and see how it goes... But I'd probably just mess it all up and spell something correctly.

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7 Oct 2013

Quote by Milik_The_Red
It isn't text speech, but I swear I'm going to do something unnatural to the next person who says 'Ginormous'.

Ginormous!

evil4

7 Oct 2013

All of them!

DO NOT enter your stories using your cell phone. Most of it this language(?) is because of them and I really don't like them. I was an electrical engineer and designed computers for 35 years. Cell phones were one I worked on and they are computers with a radio transceiver, which means it transmits and receives radio waves. Most transmit 30 to 40 milliwatts of power and 1/2 of it is going through your brain. Anyone who tells you different is lying to you to sell you a cell phone.

Nothing but a Faraday cage can protect you either because it blocks all electromagnetic radiation. You sit inside, your friend sits outside and holds the phone up close so you can hear and talk and you will never be irradiated by the cell phone. Anyone that tells you different is lying to you. Mostly they sell crap devices to gullible people that don't bother to check them out. These people tell others because the "Expert" said it worked and pretty soon it's a belief system. Yeah, like the functional retard we had for president for 8 years said, "My experts tell me there ARE weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.", and we all know where that got us.

English is an incredibly rich language and we should use it, not the junk the idiots use to enter text messages on cell phones while driving and that scares the crap out of me every time I get in a car. English includes all of the slang tongues too. It's all English and if you don't understand how to use it, read or write, you will lose to those that do.

I am always a gentleman.

19 Oct 2013

I don't texting or text speak. though I recognize some stories use parts of it, maybe to simulate accents of local areas? or so I thought

19 Oct 2013

Quote by buttercup2u
I hate to see textspeak in a story. I myself am not very proficient in it, having only gotten a phone that was capable of texting in April. (Sighs remember when the word text used to be a noun?) It not only takes too long for me to figure out what is being said, but also makes me wonder what the author had that was more pressing than the story that I am taking time to read. I realize that language is a living thing, it grows, changes, evolves, shedding that which has become useless and multiplying that which is useful. I am guessing that we will just have to make the adjustment....

I still don't even have texting - the phone is capable, I just don't pay the extra monthly fee.

I've seen it in chats on FB and other sites - totally drives me buggers, I'd never read a story that had more than the briefest glimpses of it

19 Oct 2013

Quote by adagio_sabadicus
The word...dude. Look it up, dude.

My dictionary said it's a Canadian city dweller that's on holiday on a ranch. Or a dandy! I'll plump for the Canadian.
As 4 txt spk I treat it like a crossword, I'm learning all the time.