Matt, I just had to steal it for here. This pretty much sums up how much text speak annoys me. Fair enough if it is used in actual text messages, but it shouldn’t be used in emails/forums or msn.
So, let’s create/join the ‘Save the vowels‘ movement. :)
Cat
I don’t know the creator of the banner, so I can’t give any credit. If anyone does know him or her, please let me know.
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16 Comments
Haha, yeah!
We really should make this a movement.
Save the poor little vowels from extinction!
Yep, the txt speak has become a lot more annoying lately. Why can’t people just write things normally?
Because they want to do things fast and don’t care if people can understand them.
Yeah, but surely that defeats the whole point of posting on forums? Why would you want to make a post not caring if anyone understands you? :P
I never use text speak, my text messages are always properly punctuated and capitalized, its more awkward now to use txt spk because of the excellent predictive text systems in all the phones now.
Finally someone who agrees with me on predictive text. I can’t text without it any more.
But I can understand people that don’t use it and that use txt speak to abbreviate it. Just about anyway.
Since the worst culperates arn’t going to be found here or on forums (they fail to know how to use one) I have one thing to say.
Innit i’m wth u all da way
Well, I find the ones I see on forums already bad enough. And they really, really annoy me.
And don’t come on my blog again with that kind of typing. ;)
That’s an awesome banner!
Can I join the movement and steal the banner please? Obviously, appropriate back-linking would be set in place.
Alternatively I would happily start an official “movement” and invite for joining all those that I steal the idea from.
thx. ;)
Sorry, had to be done! I hate it that much that I even ranted about it in my “About” page!
All the best
Collin
Why thank you. :)
I’m afraid neither Matt or myself can take credit for that. We both frequent many internet forums (one is even the same!) and Matt came accross the banner somewhere, placed it as his signature and I just thought it was too good to pass by.
So after a discussion on msn we made the posts on 2 forums and got varied responses. Everyone who uses txt spk has no problem with it and everyone else is really, really annoyed with it.
I really do want to create this movement. The English language needs to be saved. Kids don’t know what they’re doing. Any suggestions?
Cat. :D
This banner is nice, because I have been typing like this since I first started typing. Too bad we don’t know the creator of the banner, that would be nice to know.
By the way, I am with this “Movement” all the way!
Yeah, I’ve tried finding the creator, but I have no idea where I could find him or her. Many places on the internet are now linking back to me when they were also looking for the banner.
My co-workers and I all communicate by text messages and everyone uses complete sentences with good spelling and punctuation.
I sometimes send messages with missing words and abbreviations like “Taking off. Back four hrs.” but realize that such messages are sent while I’m actually in command of an airplane, and perhaps you will forgive me. (I can use electronic devices on board with the captain’s permission, and yay, I’m the captain.)
Hey Aviatrix and thanks for stopping by.
So you use your electronic devices with your own permission? ;)
The occasional abbreviation I don’t mind, it’s more the constant shortening of words and completely changing the language that gets to me.
I agree, but there is nothing worse than hypocrisy. I’ve seen other versions of this banner featuring poor grammar and I ask this: “If you are going to make a banner, please spell check it, and remember that the word “don’t” contains an apostrophe”.
I don’t pull out my hair when I see bad grammar because I am not an idiot. When they are using IM programs they are not illiterate, they are saving time.
However it is a different matter when they are writing an e-mail or a letter.
I think there isn’t much difference to using IM, commenting somewhere or
writing a letter. All should use full words or good grammar.
Of course there are exceptions, everyone’s mispelled a word accidentally
before.
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