Text Speak

Jax Teller

Has anyone got a problem with text speak being used on boards ?

Abi

Yes. Big time.

Creamy Goodness

nope it's just in the charter of every forum for the lulz.

Vain

Hi m8, cud som1 please tell me wat txt spk is? thx

mahamageehad

I don't because i use it daily in text messages......but I can see how many many people will!!!! It would be a nightmare in longer posts!!!

GLaDOS

Nah it's fine, go for it

Professey Chin

Abigayle wrote: »

Yes. Big time.

Listen to the crazy straight jacket lady

You know I love ya abi

zuroph

yes. In my opinion, we should have a thread where every "txt spk" type post is dumped, as a reserve of spare letters for others to use. "The spare letters thread".

I_am_Jebus

i can handle it in a short post, less than 10 or 15 words. after that It drives me mental and I usually don't bother reading the post

Jax Teller

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

nope it's just in the charter of every forum for the lulz.

would tbh and wtf not fall under text speak ?

Hank Scorpio

keysersoze_88 wrote: »

would tbh and wtf not fall under text speak ?

They are Internet slang words and didnt originate from text speak and plus they are generally used as part of a sentence, where as the entire txt speak sentence is abbreviated

Havermeyer

Not only boards, ideally it wouldn't be used anywhere.

Creamy Goodness

keysersoze_88 wrote: »

would tbh and wtf not fall under text speak ?

there's a huge difference between an abbreviation and text speak. wat is not an abbreviation of what. how much time does it save not typing h?

i don't even use text speak in text messages, and if i get a text message in text speak i ignore it, or if i'm feeling generous i'll tell them to cop the **** on, stop being a 12 year old and text me properly.

Pygmalion

keysersoze_88 wrote: »

would tbh and wtf not fall under text speak ?

They're acronyms. "wat da fuk" and "2 b onest" are text speak.

mcmoustache

There's only one cure for it. Anvil, fingers, hammer.

Neamhshuntasach

yeah it's a load of bollix

Jax Teller

Very well , i rarely use it anyways .
lesson learned .

Professey Chin

mcmoustache wrote: »

There's only one cure for it. Anvil, fingers, hammer.

Avril,2 fingers and a jackhammer motion you say?

Sheeps

Sometimes I use "txt spk" ironically, but I'd be more in favor of banning terrible 4chan memes instead of text speak. They are infinitely more annoying.

Abi

Vain wrote: »

Hi m8, cud som1 please tell me wat txt spk is? thx

Wd ban u if I cudz kthxbye.

rainbowdrop

Oh God, txt spk drives me mad!! My 12yr old daughters texts and Bebo page read something like this:
"hi wher u? u goin 2 da match lata? omg did u watch x factor, d twinz are brutal!! luv ya babz xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Mind you, she IS only 12, so I'l make allowances, but if she's still communicating like this when she's 16, I'l be chopping her fingers off myself!!!* Text speak is ok for children, NOT adults!!!





*Disclaimer - If anyone from the NSPCC is reading this, I won't really chop her fingers off;)

The_B_Man

meh, its a style of language used for communication. as long as i understand it, i dont care who uses it.

Lia_lia

Aw man it does my head in. Even in actual text messages.

geckotime

The problem with text speak is there is no universal dictionary; so different people text different abbreviations leading to confusion and time wasting. Sometimes a sentence can mean three or four different things :-(

Takk

rainbowdrop wrote: »

Oh God, txt spk drives me mad!! My 12yr old daughters texts and Bebo page read something like this:
"hi wher u? u goin 2 da match lata? omg did u watch x factor, d twinz are brutal!! luv ya babz xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Mind you, she IS only 12, so I'l make allowances, but if she's still communicating like this when she's 16, I'l be chopping her fingers off myself!!!* Text speak is ok for children, NOT adults!!!





*Disclaimer - If anyone from the NSPCC is reading this, I won't really chop her fingers off;)

If you don't get her to stop it now, then there may be no chance to save her later. You don't need to cut off all or a lot of her fingers, just threaten her a bit so she knows you're annoyed with it and then maybe one finger to show her you mean business.

Liam Byrne

If someone sends me this gibberish I'll text them back and ask them for it in English....

OK, if I'm feeling charitable I'll let them away with one "u" or "2", but other than that - NO WAY!

While the mobile phone companies do actually charge "per 160-character part of text", rather than per text (and they don't highlight this) there's still no excuse.

Imagine if your favourite author said "well, those extra pages cost money to print, so I'll just type in gibberish and hope for the best"

* assuming, that is, that text-speak people have a high enough IQ and attention span to actually read a whole book

dan719

I haz masve prob wit txt spk bbs. Lk so hrd 2 rd u no. Lolz

Seriously who the **** speaks like this? T9 ftw.

Nebit

ah jaysus people! do we really need another thread about text language???
Complaining about it is not going to stop people using it. instead it just makes you seem like 80 year olds, that sit in a rocking chair all day whinging about 'those darn youths':pac:

The_B_Man

txt spk is easier to read than some of them "i kan haz cheezburgurz"!

KTRIC

My 36 year old sister uses this in emails, texts and on facebook. Then she wonders why I don't reply.

Not ignoring her its just I haven't a f*cking clue what she's talking about. :rolleyes:

Pherekydes

rainbowdrop wrote: »

"hi wher u? u goin 2 da match lata? omg did u watch x factor, d twinz are brutal!! luv ya babz xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Wow, she uses lots of punctuation! She's still missing 25 question marks and 50 exclamation marks, though.

An adult who uses der in place of there, or l8r in place of later, for any reason whatsoever, should be committed.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

keysersoze_88 wrote: »

Has anyone got a problem with text speak being used on boards ?

Yes.

keysersoze_88 wrote: »

would tbh and wtf not fall under text speak ?

No.

fifth

I think we should have a text speak forum on boards.. where all the bad posts and threads get moved to.

Plus we could have a megathread, where we all try and out-text-speak each other with more and more insane combinations of letters and numbers to baffle the mind.

derfderf

Instead of complaining about people that use text speak we should pity the fact they still haven't figured out predictive text.

samhail

I was impressed when my dad started using "text messaging" on his phone... until i saw who introduced him and the amount of txt speak he was using... i cringed a bit inside. I dont think i actually told him ! i must tonight.

grundie

My wife responds to text speak heavy messages with a request to resend the message in plain English.

She once got the following reponse to this request:

"wtfffs!!!, ths is prper enligh u need 2 lrn how 2 rite"

The person sending this was a teacher. We're doomed!

Kanye

Given that so many people struggle with basic English comprehension on this site, making it more confusing by taking away the vowels can't be a good thing.


IMO

3hn2givr7mx1sc

rainbowdrop wrote: »

Oh God, txt spk drives me mad!! My 12yr old daughters texts and Bebo page read something like this:
"hi wher u? u goin 2 da match lata? omg did u watch x factor, d twinz are brutal!! luv ya babz xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Mind you, she IS only 12, so I'l make allowances, but if she's still communicating like this when she's 16, I'l be chopping her fingers off myself!!!* Text speak is ok for children, NOT adults!!!





*Disclaimer - If anyone from the NSPCC is reading this, I won't really chop her fingers off;)

Reading your childs text's and Bebo page is bad form, imo.

I used to use text speak an unbelievable amount, then I realised how childish and pointless it was, now I only use text speak when texting if I'm in a hurry, or just to lazy to spell everything properly.

entropi

Should not be used on an internet forum, where most users will post using a keyboard of some sort, and others including myself will sometimes post by phone...which STILL allows full character recognition so there is no excuse other than laziness for using it.

Wazdakka

Hate it..
But It's still bettter than "L337 5P34k"..

TouchingVirus

I pretty much never use txtspk ..even typing that was a nightmare and I had to think about how it went. I use it in one scenario, when I'm being charged for a message and I go to 161-165 characters. I'll try to shorten it a bit but my first point of call is always knocking the 'g' off, e.g. tryin instead of trying. None of that '2 b onest' stuff.

People moan I send long messages but that's because I'm using the full alphabet

icanhearjimi

When I get a text message with this rubbish in it, I delete it without even trying to read it. Anyone over the age of 13 who does this should be put down.

abouttobebanned

I don't even like using it in texts.

Wazdakka

TouchingVirus wrote: »

I pretty much never use txtspk ..even typing that was a nightmare and I had to think about how it went. I use it in one scenario, when I'm being charged for a message and I go to 161-165 characters. I'll try to shorten it a bit but my first point of call is always knocking the 'g' off, e.g. tryin instead of trying. None of that '2 b onest' stuff.

People moan I send long messages but that's because I'm using the full alphabet

LIES...
There is no Z in that post

The quick fox jumps over the lazy dog...

abouttobebanned

baz2009 wrote: »

Reading your childs text's and Bebo page is bad form, imo.

I used to use text speak an unbelievable amount, then I realised how childish and pointless it was, now I only use text speak when texting if I'm in a hurry, or just to lazy to spell everything properly.

Hold on, reading your child's bebo page is bad form? She's lucky to have the internet to have a bebo page. If she wants to have some privacy she can get a diary. You didn't see Anne Frank with a Bebo page...

TouchingVirus

Wazdakka wrote: »

LIES...
There is no Z in that post

The quick fox jumps over the lazy dog...

Isn't it "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"?

Wazdakka

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Isn't it "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"?

DOH!!

zuroph

abouttobebanned wrote: »

You didn't see Anne Frank with a Bebo page...

she had a small myspace but it got raided

rainbowdrop

baz2009 wrote: »

Reading your childs text's and Bebo page is bad form, imo.

I used to use text speak an unbelievable amount, then I realised how childish and pointless it was, now I only use text speak when texting if I'm in a hurry, or just to lazy to spell everything properly.

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Hold on, reading your child's bebo page is bad form? She's lucky to have the internet to have a bebo page. If she wants to have some privacy she can get a diary. You didn't see Anne Frank with a Bebo page...

Poor Anne Frank barely had pen and paper with which to write her diary, never mind a bebo page..... Can u imagine it? "Dear Diary, I tink d Germanz r gona find uz!!!!!!!!! I hope dey don't lolz!!!!!! xxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxx"

Anyway, the texts my daughter send's me read pretty much the same as the one's she send's her friends, and YES I do read her bebo page...... Have to keep her on her toes.:D

b28

Why raise this issue? It's a bit saad to start a post on an issue like this, especially since there have been countless numbers of threads complaining about text speak again and again popping up on this website. So what, just get over it!!!!

Fighting Irish

b28 wrote: »

Why raise this issue? It's a bit saad to start a post on an issue like this, especially since there have been countless numbers of threads complaining about text speak again and again popping up on this website. So what, just get over it!!!!

Better watch out, a mod will lock this thread if we get rowdy