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Idk, my bff Rose.

Cat — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:49:08 +0000

Remember ‘Idk, my bff Jill’? This is the continuation, obviously the family still hasn’t learned a bit and switched their calls to Cingular.

This was kindly linked to me by Matt. Thanks.

I had to watch the clip several times to understand just how the abbreviations work, but showing this to a few friends they gathered the meaning straight away.

Save the Vowels!

Cat

Txt spk advert

Cat — Sat, 05 May 2007 01:46:22 +0000

Remember my rant on txt spk and how the vowels need to be saved? Well, there is an advert which is all about txt spk. [Thanks Matt]

Is this what we want the world to be like? Full of kids like her?

Judge for yourself, here’s ‘My bff Jill’:

Cat

Thanks to all of you!

Cat — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:50:55 +0000

Well, at the time of writing this, I’ve had 10130 views. Here are some more stats:

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I’ve started this blog on September the 4th and it is the first blog that I actually update regularly, pretty much every day and on some days more than one post. I think the main reason I’ve updated this so much is because people actually seem to be reading it. And wordpress.com is so intuitive with a great support forum.

So thanks to all you guys and girls! :D

Cat

Save the Vowels! – My view

Cat — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:53:48 +0000

So after my original post on ‘Save the Vowels’ has received quite interesting responses, I thought I’d continue here.

Thank you to everyone who emailed me about it, but didn’t leave a comment, I never thought this would enrage so many of you.

When I made the post on here, Matt and I simultaniously posted this on 2 forums:

“Are you getting annoyed with txt speak? Bad grammar? Join the ‘Save the Vowels’ Movement! :)

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Matchbox360 and Console Monster.

It created fairly heated discussions on both with members that use txt spk themselves not having any problems with it and other members getting very annoyed.

There is also another blogger that is annoyed with txt spk. Collin who wrote this amongs other stuff on his ‘About‘ page:

“Txt spks anuver 1 f my grps. Can’t read that? Took me 10 minutes of research to write the damn thing. it says “Text speak is another one of my gripes”. I don’t even TEXT in text speak so why should I have to read it on the net?”

So, several people on forums, other bloggers, so it is not just a select few that are getting annoyed. It is more than I thought.

This is my view on txt spk:

I believe that the English language is a great sounding and easy to pick up language. It uses fairly straightforward grammar and the vocabulary isn’t that big compared to other languages. Many words share the same pronounciation and it is important that they are spelled correctly to keep the meaning.

Over the recent years people have been using txt spk not just in text messages, but also elsewhere. For example on internet forums, in letters, on blogs, IM services and chat rooms.

In my opinion, these people are just lazy. They use txt spk to save themselves time and effort, yet it takes me double the time to read what they are saying. So I have to spend more time/effort, because they are lazy? I don’t think so.

Sure, another option would be to ignore what they are writing, but how exactly do you do that in a thread with several people using txt spk? I would be missing out of opinions and wouldn’t be able to reply properly.

This needs to stop and it needs to stop now, before it is too late!

I want to create the ‘Save the Vowels’ Movement! No more txt spk! Who is with me?

Cat

Save the vowels!

Cat — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:16:34 +0000

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.

Failure on Google

Cat — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:44:04 +0000

I’m sure I’ve told many of you about this before. Either way, Google have now made an official announcement about it:

“If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We’ve received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part. I’d like to explain how these results come up in order to allay these concerns.

Google’s search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush’s website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don’t condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we’re also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don’t affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.”

I still think it’s deliberate and it does still make me laugh. :)

Cat