Txt speak is, like, so... 1917?

[Liar]

"On Thursday, teenagers around the world discovered that they weren't, like, the first generation to use OMG. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, which listed the acronym among its newest crop of word additions, that distinction goes to British Navy Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher. In 1917, Fisher wrote this sentence in a letter: "I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G.(Oh! My God!)*—Shower it on the Admiralty!" He sent the letter to Winston Churchill."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/br...g-get-into-the-oxford-english-dictionary.aspx

 

[sr71plt]

Yep, OMG, I saw that dating. Fun, that.

 

[oggbashan]

"On Thursday, teenagers around the world discovered that they weren't, like, the first generation to use OMG. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, which listed the acronym among its newest crop of word additions, that distinction goes to British Navy Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher. In 1917, Fisher wrote this sentence in a letter: "I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G.(Oh! My God!)*—Shower it on the Admiralty!" He sent the letter to Winston Churchill."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/br...g-get-into-the-oxford-english-dictionary.aspx

We British have several such acronyms:

The Order of St Michael and St George is traditionally awarded to senior civil servants. The order of precedence, starting with the lowest, is:

CMG - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George - "Call Me God"

KCMG - Knight Commander ditto - "Kindly Call Me God"

GCMG - Grand Cross ditto - "God Calls Me God"

Og

 

[3113]

Maybe this will start a trend. More slang from 1917? Yessir, that's what we need. To restore words like "Floozie," "Keen," "Hoosegow" and "Roscoe" (that's a handgun).

 

[Tio_Narratore]

When I was in NYC in the 60s, there were ads on the subway for training in a dictation systems that was easier to learn than Gregg or Pitman shorthand. It was called speedwriting, and the ad stated:

F u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb & hi py.

It's not that different from earlier (much earlier) phonetically-based notation systems in that it relies mostly on leaving the vowels out. You figure out the words without the vowels by the context, if there's any possible confusion.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Telegrapher codes are better and easier.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Maybe this will start a trend. More slang from 1917? Yessir, that's what we need. To restore words like "Floozie," "Keen," "Hoosegow" and "Roscoe" (that's a handgun).

Don't for get gamms.

 

[estragon]

When I was in NYC in the 60s, there were ads on the subway for training in a dictation systems that was easier to learn than Gregg or Pitman shorthand. It was called speedwriting, and the ad stated:

F u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb & hi py.

It's not that different from earlier (much earlier) phonetically-based notation systems in that it relies mostly on leaving the vowels out. You figure out the words without the vowels by the context, if there's any possible confusion.

It was called Speedwriting, and had a brief vogue around that time. I remember one political wag who wrote underneath the "f u cn rd ths" sentence the following : "Fk Nxn".

 

[estragon]

Jacky Fisher

was one of the greatest Sea Lords the Admiralty ever had. He brought the RN, kicking and screaming and obstructing, into the 20th Century. Unhapplily the fossils he couldn't get rid of loused up the chase of the Goeben and Breslau, and the Dardanelles, thus setting the stage for the Russian Revolution of 1917.

 

[oggbashan]

was one of the greatest Sea Lords the Admiralty ever had. He brought the RN, kicking and screaming and obstructing, into the 20th Century. Unhapplily the fossils he couldn't get rid of loused up the chase of the Goeben and Breslau, and the Dardanelles, thus setting the stage for the Russian Revolution of 1917.

The Dardanelles aka Gallipolli was a good idea, supported by Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, that was supposed to use obsolete expendable battleships to surprise and bombard the Turkish forts while troops landed on the peninsula and quickly overrun it.

The Navy (and the French Navy) sent modern battleships that were not expendable, took too long to penetrate the straits, and the follow up to the original landings was too little, too late. They gave the Turkish forces days to reinforce and gave up the bombardment when the Turkish forts were down to their last few shells. The ANZACs paid dearly for the errors of the Admiralty and Army command.

But he did have one or two bad ideas such as the Battlecruisers that were sunk at Jutland.

Og