Text speak on forums like this

Firetrap

Are you an old fogey like me who thinks txtspk on phones is just about tolerable but the work of Lucifer on the internet? Should all those young folk with nippy thumbs get the finger out (so to speak) when they're on the internet and use the keyboard that's in front of them to form actual sentences and spell words which have vowels in them?

KdjaCL

text speak should be a bannable offence tbh.



kdjac

Irish Wolf

ur ma!

Dave!

I have absolutely no problem with people using text speak.

Zebra3

KdjaCL wrote:

text speak should be a bannable offence tbh.

I'd have made it a hanging offence....

So should posting "your ma". Retards.

Kintarō Hattori

Aye, it's really annoying. It makes reading posts pretty horrible. There's no need for it, it's not like your limited by the characters you can send or the size of the keyboard you have to type with.

Zebra3

Another thing is people posting a huge amount of stuff without using paragraphs.

Posts like that I just ignore.

qwertplaywert

Don't mind it if its only the odd word, but full posts should be bannable offense.

Karl Hungus

It's against the rules on the forums I mod.

Anyone using text speak should be ashamed of themselves, and that includes on phones. With things like predictive text, it doesn't even make sense to use it, as it's more effort to spell things wrong.

There is no excuse for text speak.

Words cannot describe how much I hate text speak. Why use it on a computer? Why do people use it when they have a full keyboard in front of them? no excuse for it in my opinion. Ban it outright I say:mad:

Irish Wolf

Zebra3 wrote:

I'd have made it a hanging offence....

So should posting "your ma". Retards.

Pfff.. it's yore ma!

I got no problem with text speak in AH, so long as it doesn't take the pi$$ - but I do in other forums..

Irish Wolf

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055097340

TOO MANY CAPS!

Dave!

Karl Hungus wrote:

It's against the rules on the forums I mod.

Anyone using text speak should be ashamed of themselves, and that includes on phones. With things like predictive text, it doesn't even make sense to use it, as it's more effort to spell things wrong.

There is no excuse for text speak.

Ashamed of themselves? What the fuck are you talking about?

Here's an excellent excuse for text speak on phones: it takes up less room, so you can fit more information into a single message, thus saving you money.

I write a message and then if it goes a few characters over 1 message (or 2 as the case may be), then I go back over the message and try to cut out some characters.

Sue me.

johnny_ultimate

Text speak should be frowned upon, as it rightfully is. It may save the average typist 1 second of their life by leaving out 'superflous' vowels (lousy 'a'), but it means everyone else has to decipher said gibberish, wasting precious seconds.
Online of course. In text format it can compress messages, but I avoid it where possible.

biko

Recent post I saw

wud luv 2, mayb later on. 2 bz 2 boozie these days

Irish Wolf

DaveMcG wrote:

Ashamed of themselves? What the fuck are you talking about?

Here's an excellent excuse for text speak on phones: it takes up less room, so you can fit more information into a single message, thus saving you money.

I write a message and then if it goes a few characters over 1 message (or 2 as the case may be), then I go back over the message and try to cut out some characters.

Sue me.

If you're not ashamed - then why bother arguing the point? Just let it fly.. or take it to feedback..

**counts 160 characters**

Jesus Wept

I THNK TXT SPEAK IS GR8 U CN US THS TRNSLTR 2 HLP U IF U WNT TOO. P.S YR MA

Dave!

Irish Wolf wrote:

If you're not ashamed - then why bother arguing the point? Just let it fly.. or take it to feedback..

**counts 160 characters**

I'm arguing the point because it's b*llocks, that's why! It's irrelevent if I'm ashamed or not, fact is there's a legitimate reason to use text speak in text messages, and so I was merely telling you what it is. In fact that's probably why people started using text speak in the first place.

It's a forum and the thread asked for opinions and I gave mine.......What's the problem?

*also counts characters*

eoin5

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Cabaal

KdjaCL wrote:

text speak should be a bannable offence tbh.

If people keep using it on forums I mod after I've warned them they they will be banned

Jesus Wept

eoin5 wrote:

L337 15 b3773R 1/\/\0


L337 |-|4><0R50R rUL35 7B|-|

I heard that too, but I thought it was just a rumour?

Karl Hungus

DaveMcG wrote:

It's a forum and the thread asked for opinions and I gave mine.......What's the problem?

Your opinion is wrong.

Dave!

Touche!

Karl Hungus

DaveMcG wrote:

Touche!

Or not touché? That, is the question.

Irish Wolf

DaveMcG wrote:

I'm arguing the point because it's b*llocks, that's why! It's irrelevent if I'm ashamed or not, fact is there's a legitimate reason to use text speak in text messages, and so I was merely telling you what it is. In fact that's probably why people started using text speak in the first place.

It's a forum and the thread asked for opinions and I gave mine.......What's the problem?

*also counts characters*

kthxbi xo

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

a slightly dyslexic friend of mine is a whore for using txt spk, it makes for some awful gibberish in sms

kthxbai ..get it right, n00b

eoin5

****it why dont we al just speak old entish, "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say. "

a-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lindor-burúme = hill

here.from.day.1

eoin5 wrote:

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L337 |-|4><0R50R rUL35 7B|-|

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I refuse to respnd to any texts sent in text talk. It's pointless and irritating to read. The arguement that it cuts down on the number of letters in a text is tragically flawed when you see people replacing I with eye.

Anyone who uses it on a forum board should be banned for life.

Ruu_Old

Text speakers deserve to be beaten over the head continuously with a shovel. There is a full keyboard in front of you, use the bloody thing. After Hours I can handle, anywhere else, out with thee!

challengemaster

maybe pelted with mobile phones? spanked with keyboards?

here.from.day.1

Yea I completely agree with the last 3 posts. You have no reason to type like your missing half your keys unless you actually are missing half your keys, which I highly doubt is the case for many people here. (Im actually missing two keys on this old laptop funnily enough, try and guess which .) With regards to texting I would always use predictive and just type the thing properly, unless as Dave metioned I am just over the character cap for one text in which case I may shorten a to -> 2, yes id rather not pay 9c to send 3 letters and delay delivery time!

I just had the most horrible thought. Imagine if in a few years time text speak replaced the written word as we now know it. Imagine picking up the a novel and it was all in text speak.

Thankfully anyone who uses text speak is an idiot and most of them seem to be barely literate, so reading a sting of words formed into a sentence is far beyond their capabilities.

Terry

If I had written the AH charter, text speak would be a bannable offence.
However, it was written before I became a mod here and I'm too lazy to change it.

Constant use of text speak on AH is a bannable offence.
The user is also open to ridicule (within reason).

Wertz

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scitpo

You give out about txt spk here but plenty of you gimps think nothing of throwing in 'tbh', 'qft' and other such **** that means nothing to a normal person.

Dave!

Deleted User wrote:

I refuse to respnd to any texts sent in text talk. It's pointless and irritating to read. The arguement that it cuts down on the number of letters in a text is tragically flawed when you see people replacing I with eye.

Anyone who uses it on a forum board should be banned for life.

I don't know anybody who replaces 'I' with 'eye'. Perhaps your friends are idiots?

eamoss

Zebra3 wrote:

So should posting "your ma". Retards.

Your Mother?

Wertz wrote:

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Binary doesnt count as text speak

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robbed from a 16yr old bebo!! now i may only be 3yrs older but I really couldnt be arsed copy & pasting every letter to make up something like that but that is mainly down to me being lazy


But back to the point, I dont think text speak is bad but when people overly do it where it takes you 5mins to understand the sentence that is when I can see why ppl get pi$$ed off.

Wertz

eamoss wrote:

robbed from a 16yr old bebo!!

Ladies and gentlemen, the argument for mass sterilisation. I rest my case.

Talliesin

If someone who would normally post using text-speak posted using the full alphabet I might have to read the entire post to realise they're an idiot.

Text speak serves a useful purpose in making some posts stand out as being a waste of time to read.

Venom

Text speak is only acceptable if your using mobile phone. Using text speak from a qwerty keyboard should result in your dumb ass being banned.

nice1franko

KdjaCL wrote:

text speak should be a bannable offence tbh.



kdjac

I consider 'tbh' text speak.

Talliesin

nice1franko wrote:

I consider 'tbh' text speak.

That's nice dear.

When the Roman Army used abbreviations on standards and notices above condemned criminals (e.g. INRI being a well-known one) where they using text-speak too?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

scitpo wrote:

You give out about txt spk here but plenty of you gimps think nothing of throwing in 'tbh', 'qft' and other such **** that means nothing to a normal person.

we're better than normal people

Terry

"TBH" is an acronym.

"r u gng 2 da clb l8r" is text speak.

The bebo quote above is just completely ****ing retarded.

I admit to writing things like "sth" instead of something in a text message, but mostly to save space. My grandparents trying to use text speak is hilarious.
But never ever on a forum!

scitpo

Talliesin wrote:

That's nice dear.

When the Roman Army used abbreviations on standards and notices above condemned criminals (e.g. INRI being a well-known one) where they using text-speak too?

Heres another one for you.
STFU

Beruthiel

scitpo wrote:

Heres another one for you.
STFU

Behave yourself.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

bhv yslf

Beruthiel

*kicks mordie*

Terry

Beruthiel wrote:

Behave yourself.

Indeed.
Do that again and you will be banned.