Text Speak

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 10-11-2009 08:51AM

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 · 10-11-2009 09:16AM

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 · 10-11-2009 09:25AM

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

samhail · 10-11-2009 09:28AM

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 · 10-11-2009 11:47AM

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 · 10-11-2009 05:52PM

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 · 10-11-2009 06:12PM

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 · 10-11-2009 06:31PM

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 · 10-11-2009 06:35PM

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

TouchingVirus · 10-11-2009 06:37PM

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 · 10-11-2009 06:39PM

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 · 10-11-2009 06:42PM

I don't even like using it in texts.

Wazdakka · 10-11-2009 06:43PM

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 · 10-11-2009 06:45PM

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 · 10-11-2009 06:45PM

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 · 10-11-2009 06:47PM

TouchingVirus wrote: »

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

DOH!!

zuroph · 10-11-2009 06:59PM

abouttobebanned wrote: »

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

she had a small myspace but it got raided

rainbowdrop · 10-11-2009 07:48PM

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 · 10-11-2009 07:52PM

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 · 10-11-2009 07:54PM

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

G_R · 10-11-2009 09:23PM

I use text speak when writing "u", other than that i dont except when i am writing a text and its 161 or 162 characters, ill remover the odd e to make ot fit.

Corkfeen · 10-11-2009 09:43PM

I don't use text speak in texts, so therefore why should it be used on boards.

TouchingVirus · 10-11-2009 09:52PM

Corkfeen wrote: »

I don't use text speak in texts, so therefore why should it be used on boards.

Is there anything else you don't do? I mean while I'm taking notes I might as well get more off ya

Corkfeen · 10-11-2009 10:05PM

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Is there anything else you don't do? I mean while I'm taking notes I might as well get more off ya

Ye are here to follow my every my move. :rolleyes: Erm..... I'm just a simple person obsessed with correct grammar and spelling.

Mint Sauce · 10-11-2009 10:06PM

cant stand it in text messaging, let on alone on boards, abreveating the odd word here and there is fine, but entire sentences, wtf, it takes you twice as long to decepier it as it would to take you to read it if was typed normally

:mad:

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 10-11-2009 10:34PM

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...

A diary is to keep a record of what happened in your day/week.
Bebo is a social networking site, used mostly to send messages to friends.
They are completely different things, your point doesn't make much sense.

Liam Byrne · 10-11-2009 10:56PM

baz2009 wrote: »

A diary is to keep a record of what happened in your day/week.
Bebo is a social networking site, used mostly to send messages to friends.
They are completely different things, your point doesn't make much sense.

+1

Now if they'd asked about Anne Frank's blog......

JerryHandbag · 11-11-2009 12:05AM

I blame the rock group Primal Scream who decided to drop all vowels for the release of their album Xtrmntr (Exterminator).:cool:

Coriolanus · 11-11-2009 12:10AM

No one has an excuse for using text speak, not even on a mobile since every phone made in the last five years has predictive.

11-11-2009 12:14AM

Nevore wrote: »

No one has an excuse for using text speak, not even on a mobile since every phone made in the last five years has predictive.

Rabble Rabble...

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