Text speak on forums like this

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Beruthiel wrote:

*kicks mordie*

oh, she wants me...

Terry

Terry wrote:

Indeed.
Do that again and you will be banned.

Don't ban beruthiel! :0

nice1franko

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?

Point taken. Abbreviations are different. Not much different though. tbh, lol, rofl, ftw, irl, afaik et al is complete bollocks to anyone who doesn't read forums. a big string of txt speak on a forum is complete bollocks.

horses for courses

Capt'n Midnight

Talliesin wrote:

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?

the letters I and J weren't distinct all that long ago,

Today it could have read JNRJ and it's an acronym, and it wasn't used that often.

Text speak, is even worse that that other abomination of spelling for which I blame Webster.

Anto McC

Zebra3 wrote:

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

So should posting "your ma". Retards.

Agreed, on both counts.

scitpo

Do that again and you will be banned.

WTF?

DaveMcG

DaveMcG wrote:

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

I've seen it used on a number of ocassions. No one I know sends me messages in text speak, so I can't really call them idiots. Even if they deserve to be looked upon as such.

Terry

scitpo wrote:

WTF?

Telling users to STFU is frowned upon.

Please read the charter before posting again.

uglyjohn

i agree totally, it has no place here, it is sometime ok to cut down a character or two from a text if you are right on the limit (eg replace two/to with 2 or replace and with &)

people know not to use text speak with me, whenever they write me a text without vowels i write one back without consonants

eg the above sentence would be :

"eoe o o o ue e ee i e, eee e ie e a e iou oe i ie oe a iou ooa"


they learned their lesson pretty quickly.:D

Ste.phen

Karl Hungus wrote:

it's more effort to spell things wrong.

Nice.

challengemaster

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.

omgwtfbbq?!?! l2p imo tbh.

As said, abbreviations. nt txt spk lk dis sht. If you're on the internet for half long enough you pick it up, especially if you're a gamer. /rofling at people repeatidly in game is common

scitpo

Whats the difference? They're both bastard shorthands versions of english so get off your high horses you geek ****s.
I've just served half the board users here.

Karoma

scitpo BANNED for being a persistent pain in the ass, aggressive, and inciting violence... STFU.

Fajitas!

I despise textspeak.

Horrible horrible stuff.

challengemaster

Karoma wrote:

scitpo BANNED for being a persistent pain in the ass, aggressive, and inciting violence... STFU.

\o/ THANK YOU.



txt spk iz gr8... NOT.

here.from.day.1

uglyjohn wrote:

i agree totally, it has no place here, it is sometime ok to cut down a character or two from a text if you are right on the limit (eg replace two/to with 2 or replace and with &)

people know not to use text speak with me, whenever they write me a text without vowels i write one back without consonants

eg the above sentence would be :

"eoe o o o ue e ee i e, eee e ie e a e iou oe i ie oe a iou ooa"


they learned their lesson pretty quickly.:D

Ha nice, still alot of effort. I just dont write back. wb - another one for the abreviations list, speaking of which these are nowhere near as bad as txt spk, if you dont understand one a quick google and your set.

insafehands

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.

With a 160 (I think) character limit with text messages, it can make sense in some situations. That said, I'm not a fan.

MooseJam

text speak is a major pain to be honest, I can't touch type and still don't use it, a regular saint

AlmightyCushion

The odd word or two is grand but a whole post of text speak does my head in.

Hermione*

I can't stand text speak even in text messages. I don't understand either how some people feel that using text speak means the rules of capitalisation can be completely ignored. My eyes hurt when they see posts with no capitals when appropriate. It annoys me even more than not using paragraphs annoys me.

I work with people who feel that it's ok to email in text speak and have often wished I could tell them how awful it is to read their emails. Sadly, there's no charter for company emails.