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Txt Spk police

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    #32
    Jemmy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Jemmy


    Hold on the abbrievations are just as hard to bloody get if your new enough to boards.


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    #33
    Lockstep
    Registered Users Posts: 9,030 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    Dudess wrote: »
    I really think posts in textspeak should warrant a site banning.

    My old man got an assignment from a 2nd year history student....in text speak....


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    #34
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,587 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    kickoutthejams wrote: »
    My old man got an assignment from a 2nd year history student....in text speak....

    does he teach history?


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    #35
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Well, ffs and omg are TLA's, which in itself is a TLA, not text speak really.


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    #36
    Bob the Builder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    copacetic wrote: »
    does he teach history?
    No. He gets paid to talk to his class about it.


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    #37
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    The Bollox wrote: »
    I was thinking it may be useful to appoint a few boardsies to police people using txt spk in the same way the sig police look out for bad or offensive signatures.
    No. SIGPO can be annoying enough, though I know they provide a useful function
    The Bollox wrote: »
    The reason I think this could be useful is because I know for a fact that I am not the only Boardsie who has txt spk under his/her list of pet peeves
    Oh, I can't stand it either ... I'd find it easier to read posts in pig-Latin or binary ... but proliferation of thematically focussed quasi-obsessive groups of vigilantes on boards not a good idea.

    Mods seem to deal with it fine as it is ...
    Oryx wrote: »
    Id offer, but Id be afraid someone would then set up a separate division to pull me up on the use of the apostrophe.

    ... and Americanisms ...

    :p


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    #38
    Bob the Builder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    Whoever doesnt use apostrophes should be ashamed of themselves.


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    #39
    corkproducers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭corkproducers


    Cat Speakz FTW!
    Txt spk FTL (For the lose that is)


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    #40
    Lockstep
    Registered Users Posts: 9,030 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    copacetic wrote: »
    does he teach history?

    Woops, that makes it sound like he teaches in school.


    He's a university lecturer.

    Hence the shock that a second year uni student would so such a thing.


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    #41
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    kickoutthejams wrote: »
    He's a university lecturer.
    In Galway? In history?

    /curious now :p


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    #42
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,587 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    kickoutthejams wrote: »
    Woops, that makes it sound like he teaches in school.


    He's a university lecturer.

    Hence the shock that a second year uni student would so such a thing.

    well thats not too bad, I though history students were doing txt spk essay drive bys on members of the public..


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    #43
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    I have to back the opposition due to the simple fact that the users wanting to ban "txtspk" are actually using text speak to do so, hence finding such use of the English language an acceptable one. (what Maximillian said)


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    #44
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Even the bible come in txt spk these days
    http://www.biblesociety.com.au/smsbible/index.html


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    #45
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,587 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Gordon wrote: »
    I have to back the opposition due to the simple fact that the users wanting to ban "txtspk" are actually using text speak to do so, hence finding such use of the English language an acceptable one. (what Maximillian said)

    thats crazy talk Gordon, say I want to add the word mamafecker to the swear filter, I can't because I just used it therefore making its use acceptable? that is some backwards logic


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    #46
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    copacetic wrote: »
    thats crazy talk Gordon, say I want to add the word mamafecker to the swear filter, I can't because I just used it therefore making its use acceptable? that is some backwards logic
    :) well at least you are trying to understand it by trying to break it down into something else, creativity is always a good thing.

    Yo boards.ie mamafeckers, ban the word mamafeckers or you're all mamafeckers.


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    #47
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,587 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Gordon wrote: »
    :) well at least you are trying to understand it by trying to break it down into something else, creativity is always a good thing.

    Yo boards.ie mamafeckers, ban the word mamafeckers or you're all mamafeckers.

    you are some condescending mamafecker!


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    #48
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Only on Saturdays, and the 16th of mamafecker every year (not sure why).


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    #49
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    No. It's easy to read.


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