Topic posted in response to OMFG :
http://www.abctales.com/story/ju-b/omfg
posted more in response to Stan's comment than the actual write.
does text-speak bug you?
i've let u, ur, LOL & tho slip into use- but generally i avoid it.
i'm a slow reader & awful at spelling, so for me text-speak amounts to a whole new language to work out & decode.
ROTFL? really?
more than seeing it on screen, i hate hearing it in spoken conversation... now that really gets me!
Stan | January 25, 2012 - 10:31
I was just being a grumpy bugger with your poem, ju B. Sorry. It's such a good poem (read it, everyone!), but my hair catches fire whenever I see LOL, ROFL, OMG and stuff like that. Just my silly thing.
I don't like text-speak, though... and it kind of worries me. Literacy standards are already not good in schools, and with more and more young people using mobiles for texting and Twittering (I read in the paper a few weeks back that 85% of children over the age of 11 have mobiles) I can see text-speak becoming a kind of norm. There's another site I use where one of the people uses it in posts all the time. Perhaps it's partly laziness... but perhaps, too, it's that people get so used to using it from an early age that they think it's perfectly normal.
Maybe it will evolve into an entirely new language. In 1,000 years, it'll probably be the language of international diplomacy - if such a thing exists then...
ju B | January 25, 2012 - 10:40
a funny thing
happened
really funny-
and she saw
face unmoving
eyes staring
straight ahead
no trace
of a smile-
"lol"
she said
lol?
npmpilsh.
wrote this a while back. it REALLY happened like that. i couldn't believe it & found the whole thing ridiculously funny.
my niece actually says "OMG" & "LOL" in everyday, face-to-face, conversation. & she's come out with a few more which totally baffle me.
(really didn't need a "sorry" from you- i'm so glad for you reading & the warm welcome, lovely comments. i just wondered how others feel about the dreaded text-speak)
do you know that france has a committee-type-thing to either allow or block new words from entering into their official language? so they blocked "email" & came up with an alternative.... i don't know what else they blocked. or what they let in.
lavadis | January 25, 2012 - 13:34
If someone actually says OMG or LOL out loud and I hear them, they get a number 3 frown. This will usually make them either vomit on themselves or cry hysterically. Number 4 frowns are reserved for people who bump into me on trains and the parents of children who play loudly near me in restuarants and the recipient is struck dumb for two weeks. I have only ever used a number 5 frown once, at the man who made loud comments during my wedding reception and he burst into flames
andrea | January 25, 2012 - 13:41
Blimey, lavadis, let's hope you never develop a number 6!
Re textspeak - can't stand it (agree with Stan), but in this case it fits the poem rather well (as I mentioned on said poem).
http://www.ukauthors.com
The Other Terre... | January 25, 2012 - 21:21
Yeah I don't like ROTFL, my writing's so funny I want people to be Pissing Their Trousers Laughing (PTTL), not rolling on the bloody floor.