Why is everybody so pissy about txt speek on boards

sr. kila

wel y r dey.
it isnt 2 bad.

6th

Why use it when you have a full keyboard in front of you?

Rowley Birkin QC

Using text speak on a full sized keyboard indicates both stupidity and laziness.

It can also sometimes be next to impossible to read.

zuchum

because it's the lowest of the low

mikemac

If you can't be bothered to write it correctly , I can't be bothered to read it

Help us to help you

Senna

Christ, even your username looks like txt speek.



\read the charter, in before lock, etc etc

Vic Vinegar

It's lazy and it looks disgusting!

Fratton Fred

no matter what the poster is saying, text speak makes them sound like a 14 year old uneducated chav.

and it is ****ing annoying.

towel401

because all the scummers use txt spk

Bob the Builder

Whats so fúcking difficult about writing in english?

And it's called 'txt speak' for a reason.

Ross_Mahon

Grammar Nazis...they are everywhere

Mint Sauce

some of us simply dont use txt talk, handy and cheeper if using it txting, not an issue when you have a full screen, keyboard, and no limit on the number of characters you can use

KnifeWRENCH

Some people find it very difficult to read. And when you have unlimited character limit and a qwerty keyboard, there's really no need for it.

When I started posting on Boards I did use txt spk quite a bit, but when I realised some people get really annoyed by it I stopped doing it. It's not a big deal - just keep the txt spk for texting.

Penn

textspeak was a necessity to allow people to write a message without using too many characters, thereby exceeding the character limit for a text message and making your message cost extra.

This is not a problem on computers

kthxbye

abi2007

sr. kila wrote: »

wel y r dey.
it isnt 2 bad.

cause old people cant read it

aidan_walsh

Imagine if someone was to start speaking to you, knowingly and deliberately dropping individual syllables or leaving out words entirely. Would you want to talk to them?


Same ****.

MagicMarker

Because it makes you gay.

Pighead

sr. kila wrote: »

wel y r dey.
it isnt 2 bad.

Words are like making love to a beautiful woman. You must love them completely and use their glorious bodies to their full potential. Taking letters away from words is like bringing a lady to bed and ejaculating before you even get her socks off.

beautiation

Cos writing good is your frend.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Pighead wrote: »

Words are like making love to a beautiful woman. You must love them completely and use their glorious bodies to their full potential. Taking letters away from words is like bringing a lady to bed and ejaculating before you even get her socks off.

What's **** then?

Pighead

Maisie Jolly Victim wrote: »

What's **** then?

Soliloquies. Hamlet was a well known wanker.

ntlbell

Maisie Jolly Victim wrote: »

What's **** then?

most wan*ers use text speak.

You work it out.

beautiation

Pighead wrote: »

Words are like making love to a beautiful woman. You must love them completely and use their glorious bodies to their full potential. Taking letters away from words is like bringing a lady to bed and ejaculating before you even get her socks off.

What about adding letters? Is that like growing an extra penis?

admiralofthefleet

i think there should be an instant infraction for using text speak, it makes my eyes bleed

Overheal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1cyNigny8

Pighead

beautiation wrote: »

What about adding letters? Is that like growing an extra penis?

It meeeannnss you're a legend in the bedrooooom and a mmmaaaster of alll thiiingss sexuuualll.

Senna

Pighead wrote: »

Words are like making love to a beautiful woman. You must love them completely and use their glorious bodies to their full potential. Taking letters away from words is like bringing a lady to bed and ejaculating before you even get her socks off.

I usually ejaculate regardless of socks on or off, just not a priority for me.

Dudess

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

Grammar Nazis...they are everywhere

Objecting to the idiocy that is textspeak does not make someone a grammar nazi.

AnonoBoy

sr. kila wrote: »

it isnt 2 bad.

Why yes it is bad.

Plus you touch yourself at night and that's why Daddy drinks.

beautiation

Pighead wrote: »

It meeeannnss you're a legend in the bedrooooom and a mmmaaaster of alll thiiingss sexuuualll.

I knew my s-s-s-s-stammer would s-s-sssstart to make itself useful one day.

galwayguy22

I genuinely can't read / understand text speak.

I always use full words in text messages and only resort to removing some letters when trying to squeze a slightly too big message into a single message

abi2007

beautiation wrote: »

I knew my s-s-s-s-stammer would s-s-sssstart to make itself useful one day.

tease

4zn76tysfajdxp

Pighead wrote: »

Soliloquies. Hamlet was a well known wanker.

So what's a haiku?

beautiation

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Imagine if someone was to start speaking to you, knowingly and deliberately dropping individual syllables or leaving out words entirely. Would you want to talk to them?


Same ****.

Not really, in fairness, as the whole point of textspeak is that it's meant to be identical phonetically.

AnonoBoy

Maisie Jolly Victim wrote: »

So what's a haiku?

A quickie?

Pighead

Maisie Jolly Victim wrote: »

So what's a haiku?

Making love at night
with a woman who is small
because you like dwarves.

ntlbell

beautiation wrote: »

Not really, in fairness, as the whole point of textspeak is that it's meant to be identical phonetically.

what if your tone deaf

aidan_walsh

beautiation wrote: »

Not really, in fairness, as the whole point of textspeak is that it's meant to be identical phonetically.

Phonetically does not mean "typed on a phone".

galwayguy22

Overheal wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1cyNigny8

"Potentially dangerous code, to keep parents in the dark?"

What kind of ****ing lowbrow news station is that? Jesus that's worse than Sky News reporting on some animal up a tree somewhere in America, which they do at the end of every hour.

You take the first letter from each word of a phrase and put them together. You maybe replace some of the characters with unusual characters which have a similar appearance. Highly sophisticated.

If the Germans were using L33T Speak instead of enigma machines we'd all be speaking German right now, no doubt.

Turd Ferguson

Text speak is just silly and lazy.

Lolspeak or Engrish however is perfectly acceptable.

beautiation

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Phonetically does not mean "typed on a phone".

Oh hey accidental pun! Sweet!

People do read phonetically. It's how we learn to read, learning what sounds each symbol makes and applying that knowledge whenever we encounter a word. Repeated exposure is what makes us learn the exceptions to these rules (words with silent letters for example) and over time the 2 categories of "straight" and "exception" words fuse in our head as we get very familiar with all of them. But when we encounter new patterns of letters, like textspeak, our first instinct is still to treat them phonetically, which is why the system works.I don't think textspeak is harmful, but I don't like the look of it so I'm glad it's frowned upon here.

abi2007

beautiation wrote: »

Oh hey accidental pun! Sweet!

People do read phonetically. It's how we learn to read, learning what sounds each symbol makes and applying that knowledge whenever we encounter a word. Repeated exposure is what makes us learn the exceptions to these rules (words with silent letters for example) and over time the 2 categories of "straight" and "exception" words fuse in our head as we get very familiar with all of them. But when we encounter new patterns of letters, like textspeak, our first instinct is still to treat them phonetically, which is why the system works.I don't think textspeak is harmful, but I don't like the look of it so I'm glad it's frowned upon here.

that's just to much waffel for me to read!

Pighead

abi2007 wrote: »

that's just to much waffel for me to read!

tl;dr

beautiation

abi2007 wrote: »

that's just to much waffel for me to read!

Dammit. I wish my blather were waffly versatile.

Carturo

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

Grammar Nazis...they are everywhere

Because the sad bastards have nothing else.

Professey Chin

Cause it touches children

chops1990

its ok in programs which require messeges to be small and to the point. its just being lazy on site like this

aidan_walsh

I understand that and thats all well and good. However there comes a time when people need to move above the basics they learned as infants and start using the same methods of communication as the rest of us.

Standard Toaster

If your going to use txt speak you may as well type using Morse code.
It would take me as long to understand both.

Useless your 8 years old, have two smashed up hands or have 3 keys on your keyboard you've no excuse not to use English.

hullaballoo

I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again: nd vwls fr mkng sntncs.

javaboy

hullaballú wrote: »

I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again: nd vwls fr mkng sntncs.

Spry nymphs cry by my crypt. Cnsnnts ftw!