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Invasion of the txters

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    1 4L50 d15L1|<3 7|-|3 9R0\/\/1|\|9 1|\|PhLU3|\|(3 0Ph 7><75P34|<:)


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Naikon wrote:
    1 4L50 d15L1|<3 7|-|3 9R0\/\/1|\|9 1|\|PhLU3|\|(3 0Ph 7><75P34|<:)
    Should I be worried I could understand that?

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,469 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Very. Then again, your name is......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭Jack Vegas


    I copied this post from another thread, where members were giving advise to a user as to how he could improve his poetry response for the English leaving cert exam. I found it quite ironic that the above poster was giving advise on English considering 80% (just a random figure chosen by moi) of the words used in his/her post are not even in the English dictionary. So what I wanted to ask is whether or not people think texting, using the spelling method above, is hindering our ability to express ourselves properly, efficiently and eloquently during exams and everyday life etc?

    P.S: This is not an attack on...ahem...*lil fairy* (it kills me to even type it). I am using this post to highlight the frequent use of 'texting speech' in modern day life.

    Advice ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭Selphie


    Naikon wrote:
    1 4L50 d15L1|<3 7|-|3 9R0\/\/1|\|9 1|\|PhLU3|\|(3 0Ph 7><75P34|<:)

    I fourlfiveo.......
    What the....
    What does it mean??

    Like Attol, I only use text speak when I'm texting non-meteorites, and at that it'd only be condensing you to u. I just can't understand anything else.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    It means "I also dislike the growing influence of txtspeak":)

    which in Binary encoding translates to:

    01001001001000000110000101101100011100
    11011011110010000001100100011010010111
    00110110110001101001011010110110010100
    1000000111010001101000011001010010000001
    10011101110010011011110111011101101001
    01101110011001110010000001101001011011
    10011001100110110001110101011001010110
    11100110001101100101001000000110111101
    10011000100000011101000111100001110100
    0111001101110000011001010110000101101011

    Impractical?, yes but I can only imagine people writing like this(Not LOL, maybe in Hex)
    And FTW, I am not fluent in these "languages"


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,177 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Shaner-B wrote:
    cmon this isnt peoples inability 2 express themselves, most people are quite able 2 express themselves when needed. but this site is informal, so who cares when people start writing with txt speech!?i dont think they're actually going 2 write in d same fashion in d LC!!!


    Practice makes permanent!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭analyse this


    Jack Vegas wrote:
    Advice ;)

    Touché:D


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