What is with all this texting shit????

[T.H. Oughts]

My teenage neice has just got email and writes every day and that is cool.. but it takes me 5 minutes the read the stuff.... I never took shorthand in school and I'm sure it still wouldn't have helped now!!

With online messaging and cell phone texting the english language is gonna die soon....

I must getting old, I don't like the rules changing to much, lol

 

[Coolville]

My teenage neice has just got email and writes every day and that is cool.. but it takes me 5 minutes the read the stuff.... I never took shorthand in school and I'm sure it still wouldn't have helped now!!

With online messaging and cell phone texting the english language is gonna die soon....

I must getting old, I don't like the rules changing to much, lol

SMS (short message service) on mobiles peaked here a few years ago in Scandinavia. But then 80% of the population have a mobile.

The English language won't die. Language has to evolve if it is to survive. Texting is a great creative challenge.

The Guardian in England had an SMS text poetry competition. Here are the winners: link to site

1 Emma Passmore £1,500

I left my pictur on th ground wher u walk
so that somday if th sun was jst right
& th rain didnt wash me awa
u might c me out of th corner of yr i & pic me up

2 Sharon Mann £500

Awokewashedcoffeetoast
trainworklunchworktrain
homepasta.putbinout.
the lightofthesun,reflectedbythe
surfaceofamoonfleckedwith
thegreyshadowsofmountains,
littheyard

3 Peter Wroe £250

Jus left th clinic
bstrong cheri
arm ok no panic
need u 2 promis me
2 keep kissin
me left breast
cos baby nxt week
me right'll b missin

4 Mandy Coe £150

We carry u, hods of screams.
Stund u grasp, cof lastwords but fire is the star.
We r xtras, greyfaced w ash.
Blulite stild we go hme
whr evn sleep tstes of burn

5 Josephine Dimbleby £100

"Where is my joie de vivre?
slumped on the grass verge outside asda."


Orange prize for creative use of SMS

Graham Francis

GLSTNBRY FSTVL

seasnd w msts n fruitlss mellwnss
n pungent smlls f grss ovr hay
we flp nto ponchos fr a mnts rest
n try nt t pln t rst f t day

 

[Gusty Wind]

ditto `sexyyyyy

hOw are you doing ?

muahh

 

[T.H. Oughts]

Re: Re: What is with all this texting shit????

The English language won't die. Language has to evolve if it is to survive. Texting is a great creative challenge.

I know it will not die... I'm tired and just having a grumble....



Evening Gusty

 

[m4m4 l0n9]

Text messinging is great.

 

[TWB]

I have not had to deal with it and I already do not like it.

 

[T.H. Oughts]

I have not had to deal with it and I already do not like it.

Hiya sexy man.. long time no see... I'm just off to get some sleep so how about you bend over and do it yourself on my behalf.

 

[TWB]

Hiya sexy man.. long time no see... I'm just off to get some sleep so how about you bend over and do it yourself on my behalf.

That's not much of an offer.

 

[LukkyKnight]

My teenage neice has just got email and writes every day and that is cool.. but it takes me 5 minutes the read the stuff.... I never took shorthand in school and I'm sure it still wouldn't have helped now!!

With online messaging and cell phone texting the english language is gonna die soon....

I must getting old, I don't like the rules changing to much, lol

Change is inevitable, the issue is participating so the hands on the rudder are not all new.

 

[jedimasterELMO]

Hack teh planet!!!

 

[Gilly Bean]

Re: Re: What is with all this texting shit????

SMS (short message service) on mobiles peaked here a few years ago in Scandinavia. But then 80% of the population have a mobile.

The English language won't die. Language has to evolve if it is to survive. Texting is a great creative challenge.

The Guardian in England had an SMS text poetry competition. Here are the winners: link to site

1 Emma Passmore £1,500

I left my pictur on th ground wher u walk
so that somday if th sun was jst right
& th rain didnt wash me awa
u might c me out of th corner of yr i & pic me up

2 Sharon Mann £500

Awokewashedcoffeetoast
trainworklunchworktrain
homepasta.putbinout.
the lightofthesun,reflectedbythe
surfaceofamoonfleckedwith
thegreyshadowsofmountains,
littheyard

3 Peter Wroe £250

Jus left th clinic
bstrong cheri
arm ok no panic
need u 2 promis me
2 keep kissin
me left breast
cos baby nxt week
me right'll b missin

4 Mandy Coe £150

We carry u, hods of screams.
Stund u grasp, cof lastwords but fire is the star.
We r xtras, greyfaced w ash.
Blulite stild we go hme
whr evn sleep tstes of burn

5 Josephine Dimbleby £100

"Where is my joie de vivre?
slumped on the grass verge outside asda."


Orange prize for creative use of SMS

Graham Francis

GLSTNBRY FSTVL

seasnd w msts n fruitlss mellwnss
n pungent smlls f grss ovr hay
we flp nto ponchos fr a mnts rest
n try nt t pln t rst f t day

I'm sorry, did you say that people actually got paid for being illiterate?



My hubby and I both run a text based RPG, and we don't tolerate it there.

When someone starts doing shit like:

I ned 2 no if i can do tht

We respond with:

I'm sorry, but when you can say that again, in proper english, we will respond.

Or:

I am sorry, but I can not understand a thing you are saying. Please use proper english.



Now, I understand a few misspelled words, but really, why the need to take a 2 letter word, and make it a number to save a fraction of a second?

Children need to learn proper grammar.