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Who else hates this foul new shortened language?
Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream Posted Jul 22, 2003
erm
The slang used here can be a bit confusing h2Jargon - A632431 or h2g2 Glossary - A901829 explains most of it. 
dodging the 
Emmily 
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Mu Beta Posted Jul 22, 2003
There's a lot of difference between jargon and deliberately misconstruing the English Language, though.
B
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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream Posted Jul 22, 2003
Yes Sir, I guess there is
(hmmmm someone's in a 
mood)
Emmily
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Mina Posted Jul 22, 2003
Er, have I? I'm not used to this debating lark. Arguments round my way tend to consit of 'oi you git'. Or words to that effect.
I was reacting to the point that it was going to kill the English language as it is now. I was trying to point out that it isn't necessarily a bad thing, that if it does it would be because the majority of people started using it. And that I personally thought that it wouldn't in our lifetimes, because schools are going to continue to teach correct English.
Or something. I don't oppose change. Nor do I oppose things staying the same. Like a river, I'll take the path of least resistance. 
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Mu Beta Posted Jul 22, 2003
I just want to know which point you anticipate the schools ceasing to teach proper English...
B
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J Posted Jul 22, 2003
Re: old fuddy duddies
I'm just annoyed by having to read this. Vowels have a purpose!! They're there for you to use. I'm not opposed to change usually. I just am when it's for the worst
So there 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 22, 2003
If one more person asks me a/s/l I will be forced to track them down and shoot them like the dog they clearly are. So there.
Some 'text speak' I can cope with, like shortening 'please' to 'pls'. The only time I consider it acceptable, however, is on a text message on a phone, that's it.
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J Posted Jul 22, 2003
Amen! Someone asked Sam a/s/l which I happened to find quite funny
I really should write an entry on this... very good opinions on this thread....
Hmmm.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 22, 2003
They did indeed- and Ashley
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Mu Beta Posted Jul 22, 2003
I bet he struggled with the middle one...
B
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 22, 2003
That's B demonstrating "How to be a liberal new man and influence people", there for you....
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Researcher Eagle 1 Posted Jul 22, 2003
w00t!!
L33t 0wnZ J00...
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weberquetzal Posted Jul 22, 2003
Text speak is OK on mobile phones but when people actually start talking in text speak it's really too much! I'm tired of people at school commenting in text speak. Some actually struggle to write a proper sentence (and sometimes there name)!
Up with vowels!
It also takes some people longer to think of ways to abbreviate things and then for someone to decipher them, than writing the message in full in the first place!
Hopefully it'll die a swift and vowel filled death but I don't think it'll be too soon! Language should evolve but nt lk ths!
(Reminicent of Newspeak in George Orwell's 1984...hmmm!)
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Anushodhak Posted Jul 22, 2003
It does annoy me. Spirit of the language dies and it only creates confusion. People like me who speak English as second language are already confused with British and American form of spellings. But Hinglish is more irritating to me. Hinglish is nothing but a disgusting mixture of Hindi and English. Hindi is National language of India and English is second language. Hinglish is getting popular day by day so much so that some news channels broadcast news in Hinglish. I do not want to see Hindi or any other language dying because of misuse. 
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BouncyBitInTheMiddle Posted Jul 22, 2003
l33t sp33k/txt spk/whatever you want to call it more or less universally deserves the reply of "LEARN TO TYPE".
Its certainly not going to kill English because its too incomprehensible to proliferate. Its like grammar: many people consider it extraneous, but it remains because it serves a purpose.
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- 21: Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream (Jul 22, 2003)
- 22: Mu Beta (Jul 22, 2003)
- 23: Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream (Jul 22, 2003)
- 24: Mina (Jul 22, 2003)
- 25: Mina (Jul 22, 2003)
- 26: Mu Beta (Jul 22, 2003)
- 27: J (Jul 22, 2003)
- 28: Mina (Jul 22, 2003)
- 29: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Jul 22, 2003)
- 30: J (Jul 22, 2003)
- 31: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Jul 22, 2003)
- 32: J (Jul 22, 2003)
- 33: Mu Beta (Jul 22, 2003)
- 34: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Jul 22, 2003)
- 35: J (Jul 22, 2003)
- 36: Researcher Eagle 1 (Jul 22, 2003)
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- 39: Anushodhak (Jul 22, 2003)
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