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How do you feel about text speak?
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Text speak is here to stay, get over it. |
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Is it really that hard to write "you" instead of "U"? |
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FF, you have way too much time on your hands. |
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PinkFridge
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 4:10 pm
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PinkFridge
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 4:11 pm
Is eschewing text speak, particularly outside of texting, a generational thing? What would our youngest members and/or teenagers say?
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amother
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 4:13 pm
We don't really have the space constraints of texting here, or the difficulties of sending Morse, so shorthand isn't really needed.
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PinkFridge
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 4:16 pm
amother [ Amethyst ] wrote: | We don't really have the space constraints of texting here, or the difficulties of sending Morse, so shorthand isn't really needed. |
Yeah, but for those members using a small keyboard, I.e. their phones or the like, I have rachmanus and cut them slack.
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FranticFrummie
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 4:30 pm
amother [ Amethyst ] wrote: | |
Sorry, you missed the joke.
STOP, as used in a telegraph, to indicate the end of the sentence where the period goes, and "stop" as in "we're not using telegraphs on message boards." It was a double meaning type of thing.
I guess I should have used the /humor font.
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amother
Amethyst
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 4:33 pm
FranticFrummie wrote: | Sorry, you missed the joke. |
No, I got it. The context of the screenshot is about taking things literally, although perhaps in hindsight it is too obscure for this site.
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amother
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 4:38 pm
Ok off topic, are some of these posts written in rainbow colour or am I loosing it??!
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FranticFrummie
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 4:43 pm
amother [ Maroon ] wrote: | FF u r so rite! Txt spk is really bad! |
You misspelled "RLY".
Some days I wonder if the cat from I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER has made an account here.
In my senior year of high school I had college prep English as my last class of the day. The first day of school we were sent home with a thick textbook. I got out a binder and note paper, and did every single page of work sheets, dated at the top. I did one whole year's worth of homework assignments in one night.
Every day I would walk in, put the day's work sheet on the teacher's desk, go to the back of the class, and take a nap on my desk. After a couple of weeks some of the other kids complained that they weren't allowed to take naps, too. The teacher said "When you get an A+ on every single thing you do, plus extra credit, on time every single day, then you can have all the naps you want." #teacherspet. They didn't have a class that was more challenging, so what were they going to do? Keep me awake for nothing?
Meanwhile, I was flunking pre-Algebra. I'm so right brained, it's a miracle I don't fall over.
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FranticFrummie
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 4:47 pm
amother [ Amethyst ] wrote: | No, I got it. The context of the screenshot is about taking things literally, although perhaps in hindsight it is too obscure for this site. |
OK, I love Kimmy Schmidt, but I don't recall that specific episode. I was just concerned that I actually hurt your feelings, if you didn't realize I was making a telegraph joke.
I've accidentally hurt people before, when they didn't catch that I was being sarcastic, so I try to clarify when I don't communicate accurately enough for online conversation.
I do find emojis extremely helpful when you are trying to give over tone of voice.
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amother
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 6:55 pm
amother [ Dodgerblue ] wrote: | Ok off topic, are some of these posts written in rainbow colour or am I losing it??! |
Yes, they are!
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amother
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 6:59 pm
FranticFrummie wrote: | OK, I love Kimmy Schmidt, but I don't recall that specific episode. I was just concerned that I actually hurt your feelings, if you didn't realize I was making a telegraph joke.
I've accidentally hurt people before, when they didn't catch that I was being sarcastic, so I try to clarify when I don't communicate accurately enough for online conversation.
I do find emojis extremely helpful when you are trying to give over tone of voice. |
I'm sorry for the confusion.
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bsy
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 9:55 pm
I don't mind it so much in texts. But I go crazy when I see it in emails from businesses or professional emails (rather, what's SUPPOSED to be professional). It happened to me today. I sent an email to a business and received a reply with no punctuation and the word "prob" for probably. I was very unimpressed.
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penguin
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 10:22 pm
I sometimes type out a whole text, but then in the interest of keeping it under 160 characters I will go back and use text-speak abbreviations (because I and most of my close contacts don't have smart phones, so longer texts sometimes don't come through.)
BH I still have a keyboard on my phone, so I'm fairly comfortable typing with it (and hoping Hashem stops Verizon from taking it away from me!) but I can definitely see why people without keyboards are typing as briefly as possible (even with T9).
On message boards and emails I am only typing on a real (wired!) keyboard so I rarely abbreviate, unless it's to immediate family and I am very tired (and then I might not bother to capitalize either).
In general I do believe in trying to maintain the rules of English (and also the meanings of words such as decimate. Look it up! And please use it properly!)
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penguin
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 10:22 pm
I noticed the colors, at first I thought my screen was tired, but then I realized, Adar!!!!!
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amother
Smokey
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 1:05 am
In agreement with many people here, that in texts I find it ok, but it irritates me to no end when a business related text or email is written in shorthand. Like, be professional, ok?
The one word I cannot forgive, even in casual texting is "come" instead of "come". If you know, you know
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lech lecha08
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 3:26 am
It drives me crazy but I think it's here to stay.
I'm not sure it's an age thing. DH's family has a whatsapp group and his almost-60-yr-old relative uses U, 2, 4, etc
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singleagain
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 7:24 am
A captial U in a professional email bothers me more than anything. If you took the time to press shift+u. You could have spelled out the word.
Also, people typing in ALL CAPS in a work email. Please don't shout at me. Whatever happened it's probably not my fault and if it is, it was an accident.
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PinkFridge
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 9:03 am
penguin wrote: |
BH I still have a keyboard on my phone, so I'm fairly comfortable typing with it (and hoping Hashem stops Verizon from taking it away from me!) but I can definitely see why people without keyboards are typing as briefly as possible (even with T9).
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Even phone keyboards are small.
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amother
Tan
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 1:07 pm
Quote: | The one word I cannot forgive, even in casual texting is "come" instead of "come". If you know, you know Can't Believe It Banging head | OMG my DDIL does this and she's such an innocent sheltered girl I could never tell her anything... You notice it was edited : )
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amother
Chocolate
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Sat, Feb 29 2020, 9:50 pm
how do you write in color?????? I wish more people would write in color !!!!!
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