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Maybe I got everyone started on the wrong foot but I intended this to be a discussion regarding grammar and not leet speak. It's actually pretty easy for me to tolerate someone saying "Da noobs r aggrav8ing" as opposed to "The newbies is aggravating." :rolleyes2 Even simple things like conjugating verbs seem to be going by the wayside. Typing in shorthand is fine as long as it makes sense when one reads it. I'm sorry if I got anybody confused.
Posts like that bother me to no end, so I usually just skip them. I don't think it's school education that causes it, just the high-speed society we live in, where people want to do as much as possible as quick as possible. If grammer or spelling are casualties of this, so be it.
It is truly not that hard to type correctly. I have never taken a typing class and yet I type quite fast. It is different when it is on a cell phone or something but honestly a keyboard is set up quite well to type EVERYTHING extremely fast and completely. So people that end up being too lazy to type something correctly, just dissapoints me. Some people I can understand, they just can't type well or speak english well. But it's the people that purposefully do it because they think it's funny or cool.
1337 speak is far from that. You're not elite, you're an idiot if you type like that.
THE JACKEL
I just think that if someone wants to be treated like an adult, they should sound like an adult. Otherwise, they will be treated like and thought of as a child.
I don't care what anyone says, Christmas has the best way of wording sentences on the entire site.
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(SPOILER)Translation: This is an example of leet at its finest. I will take this opportunity to remind you that you should always get your kids... pet spayed or neutered. Never leave home without a towel. And no matter what they say, there is no cow level.
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
THE JACKEL
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Originally Posted by roto13-ness
That's so true. Because I know for a fact that teens who are say 14 and 15 and even younger, who write/type properly, say on a forum or on MSN are often mistaken of being older.
I'm sorry.
I feel very guilty being one of those who scrambles words and make incoherent sentences. English, like every other 2nd languages, is difficult: I have to be conscious of how I construct grammar, making sure that my tenses are consistent, that my subject and verb agree, looking out for awkward modifiers, prepositions, articles, adverb, and etc., and add to the bundle a long list of synonyms for each and every word.
Too bad, too bad. :3
I hate english...I like japanese though!!
Is it frightening that I could read that without the spoiler? Best leetspeak ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Jackal
I could also read it. But thats because some friends on MSN actually type like that and I've got to ask for them to use proper letters or sit like a codebreaker for hours on end.
I always try to write properly because I want to be sure what I'm typing can be read easily. As far as being anal about capitalizing every 'i' and whatnot, I don't really care that much. It's a forum, I doubt anyone will kill me if I miss one comma. I also don't care about other's writing habits as long as I can understand what they're saying. When it takes me 5 minutes to decipher what the message was, then it's a problem.
Yeah, I could read it too ... should I be concerned? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Tavrobel
A lot of the time it's cause English isn't their first language though.
In that case it's understandable, but otherwise... no.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Hubsta
sumtimes my teachers tel me not 2 use teh internte cuz it makes me spel bad
Gah, I can't do it.