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Textspeak. I HATE IT!

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  • #32
    GavRedKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    I hate it with a passion.
    I'd only use it in a txt msg wouldnt use it in any other shape or form.


  • #33
    Meeja Ireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Meeja Ireland


    I hate it with a passion.
    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Aside from it being extremely irritating to try and decipher, it also results in people using words like "exercised" when they probably mean "excited" :D

    From the OED (their abbreviation, not a piece of wicked txtspeak):

    EXERCISE

    b. esp. To harass, vex, worry; to afflict, make anxious, ‘prove’.

    1888 N. & Q. Ser. VII. V. 418 My own housemaid was very much exercised... by an inexplicable tinkling... of her door-bell.

    More inexplicable tinklings as they arrive.


  • #34
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    gavredking wrote: »
    I'd only use it in a txt msg wouldnt use it in any other shape or form.

    ...er...like a post on boards.ie ?? :D

    Cue Alanis Morrisette........


  • #35
    Bodhidharma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Bodhidharma


    I dont use it and neither do any of the people who text me so it doesn't bother me. Internet talk on the other hand is a pain in my arse. It's so stupid and just reminds me of dimwitted Americans with no vocabulary. Its no fun reading a sentence with the FTW at the end of it, only to have to check what those letters stand for and find out it means something that isn't even appropriate. Imagine saying it in real life.

    John - "Lads who is the best footballer in the world?"
    Liam - "I'd go for Messi"
    Dave - "Tough one, Ronaldo i'd say"
    Gimp - "Rooney for the win"

    Shut up LOL, IMO, LMAO, blah blah blah


  • #36
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Delighted the majority of users here detest it.

    The world has not ended just yet. :)


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  • #37
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    ...er...like a post on boards.ie ?? :D

    Cue Alanis Morrisette........

    It's like raaaaaaaiiiiiiiin....


  • #38
    Meeja Ireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Meeja Ireland


    I hate it with a passion.
    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    ...er...like a post on boards.ie ?? :D

    Cue Alanis Morrisette........

    "It's a death row pardon, 2 mins 2 l8"....

    Joking aside, I tend not to use it myself. The only difficulty that gives me is when someone sends a genuinely funny text. "I laughed out loud" seems a bit pedantic, but if I resort to "LOL" they'll think my phone has been stolen.


  • #39
    time42play
    Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭time42play


    Once had someone claim it was her "culture" and it was discrimination to ask her to write properly. But on an email list with lots of older women who don't even know what a "text" is she was pretty much told to adapt or leave.


  • #40
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    No matter how tolerant I try to be if I get a text message filled with words inexplicably stripped of their vowels I always end up thinking that the person who sent it is a moron.

    Generally they are.


  • #41
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    It's destroying the English language. I know people who, when they write essays actually put 'da' instead of 'the' and wonder why they get such crappy marks

    EDIT: Also, the inclusion of text speak in some music these days really gets to me. 'Dance Wiv Me' 'In Da Club'
    ****e music anyways


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The thing about text-speak is it's used so one can fit more words into one single text message. But yet, all the letters still remain on the buttons. I personally would prefer to text words properly and pay the extra few cent so my message doesn't look like something from Britney Spears' vocabulary book! Thank you!


  • #43
    ItsNoAlias
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭ItsNoAlias


    Couldnt agree more. Isn't that why phobes have predictive text? Does this happen in other languages? As in do the french/spanish have text speak?:confused:


  • #44
    Walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Walsh


    I hate it with a passion.
    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    I detest it with every fibre of my body!

    And what's worse is the way you're viewed as being a prick if you object to it!

    Prick.


  • #45
    Walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Walsh


    I hate it with a passion.
    ItsNoAlias wrote: »
    Couldnt agree more. Isn't that why phobes have predictive text? Does this happen in other languages? As in do the french/spanish have text speak?:confused:

    As far as I know they do.


  • #46
    Warfi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 633 ✭✭✭Warfi


    ItsNoAlias wrote: »
    Does this happen in other languages? As in do the french/spanish have text speak?:confused:

    May wee/See, seenyore


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Every phone has predictive text. If you install a new language on your phone you can use it with predictive text. I have german and it works perfectly!


  • #48
    TigerIsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭TigerIsa


    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    Well that's not too annoying as such, but its the people that spell "you", "yu", instead of even going for "u", which annoy me, just shows pure idiocy, not even time-saving.

    What's even worse than this, is people spelling it like 'yoo' or 'yhoo'. They're more difficult to text than 'you'!!

    And also yeah, text speak in other languages is awful too because I have spanish and french friends and whenever they talk to me on facebook or whatever I can't understand what the fcuk they're trying to say.. For example :P
    Ola wpa d dnde rs
    'Hola guapo, de donde eres'


  • #49
    LEIN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    My girlfriend uses it all the time. Some need a translation into english.

    I never have and never will use it. It hurts my eyes!


  • #50
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    TigerIsa wrote: »
    What's even worse than this, is people spelling it like 'yoo' or 'yhoo'. They're more difficult to text than 'you'!!

    And also yeah, text speak in other languages is awful too because I have spanish and french friends and whenever they talk to me on facebook or whatever I can't understand what the fcuk they're trying to say.. For example :P
    Ola wpa d dnde rs
    'Hola guapo, de donde eres'

    Babel fish can only do so much :o


  • #51
    TigerIsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭TigerIsa


    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    Babel fish can only do so much :o

    Hahah I know! That was the only one I actually understood ;)


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  • #52
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    ItsNoAlias wrote: »
    Isn't that why phobes have predictive text?

    Boards doesn't, though! ;):D
    Walsh wrote: »
    Prick.

    :D And pleasantly surprised that you put a vowel in there! My campaign is working!!!! :)


  • #53
    Bonkers_xOx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Bonkers_xOx


    Or when people use '3' instead of the letter 'e'.
    As in, 'H3y Ow ar y3?':mad:


  • #54
    almostnever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭almostnever


    All of my friends do it,so objecting wouldn't work :( Drives me mental though,really does. I can't help but lose respect for people who use it.


  • #55
    jebuz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭jebuz


    Bodhidharma wrote: »
    I dont use it and neither do any of the people who text me so it doesn't bother me. Internet talk on the other hand is a pain in my arse. It's so stupid and just reminds me of dimwitted Americans with no vocabulary. Its no fun reading a sentence with the FTW at the end of it, only to have to check what those letters stand for and find out it means something that isn't even appropriate. Imagine saying it in real life.

    John - "Lads who is the best footballer in the world?"
    Liam - "I'd go for Messi"
    Dave - "Tough one, Ronaldo i'd say"
    Gimp - "Rooney for the win"

    Shut up LOL, IMO, LMAO, blah blah blah

    God!! That's ridiculous...

    Messi is obviously the best


  • #56
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    ItsNoAlias wrote: »
    Isn't that why phobes have predictive text?

    Freudian slip?


  • #57
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Hate it.

    I hate when the same number of characters are used, and it's just mangled English for the sake of it.

    E.g. M33t (meet)....why? or Yoo (you)....why?

    Perhaps the worst is txtspk with a pointless array of capital and lower case letters...common on Bebo etc.

    oMg! iM lIkE s0 oRiJnIl WiT mE CRaZeE tXTsPk!!!!lULLz!!!!!!!!!!!

    Argh!


  • #58
    WesternNight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    What bothers me about it is that some people who use textspeak are perfectly articulate when speaking face to face. The second I see them use textspeak, though, I end up seeing them as slightly moronic. Or something.


  • #59
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    People who use text speak should be charged a stupid tax.

    It could actually solve the whole recession problem.


  • #60
    VinnyTGM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭VinnyTGM


    So many kid's in school's failing English because of txt speak fcuking up their writing.


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  • #61
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    This topic reminded me of the wonderfully erudite Stephen Fry on Jonathan Ross addressing the topic of language snobs who moan about text speak :

    Link


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