Gahhh!!!!!!
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Topic: Gahhh!!!!!!
Posted By: Mucky_Tiger
Subject: Gahhh!!!!!!
Date Posted: 17 January 2011 at 10:03pm
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your 21 learn to spell !!!!!
this is not spelling and you were taught to spell. I was there in class with you also learning...except i obviously learnt. you didnt! Original Post: arrrrgh bubz mustv missed me tanite first tym fallin aslep on me in a long tym 2 cute and BIG thanks ta hu came celebrate his big 1 bdae WAS LOVELY big 1 on wednesdae :) gne way 2 fast maybe tym for the next 1 whahaha 16 minutes ago · Like · Comment reply 1: Lol hapi birthday tah taylor 4 wednesday lol. And u suld have anutha 1 lmao. 15 minutes ago via Facebook Mobile · Like Original poster: thank u lolz and hahaha 14 minutes ago · Like reply 2: happy birthday to miiy main man taylor . Sowi aunty had to miss iht . And yes yu shud so totally have anada 1 5 minutes ago via Facebook Mobile · Like Original poster: thank u and it alg u be dwn soon YAYZ and i dunno then i b big for the weddin hahahaha and jase wants ta wait til after the weddin hahaha prob be gud idea about a minute ago · Like |
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Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 17 January 2011 at 10:06pm
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Gaahh hate it when people write like that, my 13 year old niece does it! I'm not even gonna try read all that cos it takes too long!
(Oh and I had a wee giggle, it's "you're 21" not "your" hehe.) ------------- Mama to DS1 (5 years), DS2 (3 years) and... http://alterna-tickers.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Whateversville
Date Posted: 17 January 2011 at 10:09pm
| Ew. I hate people that type like that. I have a friend ThAt TyPeS LiKe ThIs drives me mental. She's 24. |
Posted By: Mucky_Tiger
Date Posted: 17 January 2011 at 10:12pm
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arohanui, oh whoops.
ok so i forget that bit has different options. 
im usually pretty good. and hey its written in english atleast and is more of a word than 'ur' or 'yur' as i seen it once |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 17 January 2011 at 10:22pm
Same here LOL -------------  |
arohanui wrote:Posted By: TheKelly
Date Posted: 17 January 2011 at 10:31pm
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I wish people that wrote like that knew how stupid they looked.
Especially when they write things like "wednesdae" what is the point in that?? it doesn't take any letters away, it doesn't save any time. Annnnd it gives me a headache to read ------------- 
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Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 17 January 2011 at 10:32pm
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Urgh, it is horrible isn't it! I can't stand it, thankfully on OB we don't seem to have anyone who writes like that...if they did, I would ignore their posts haha (or just not understand tehe) ------------- 
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Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 17 January 2011 at 10:50pm
I too giggled at the your bit 
But i was just bitching about this the other day, my friend wrote her status as "libz b in twn an owt trippn hard yea boi!" and my head nearly exploded. (shes 24 and i know she went to school because we were in the same classes!) The effort it takes to write like that blows me away. Equally infurating is replacing numbers with letters - 3 instead of E especially (3sp3cially?) |
Posted By: Mucky_Tiger
Date Posted: 17 January 2011 at 11:10pm
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who the hell would swap letters with numbers?
that fully makes no sense |
Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 17 January 2011 at 11:15pm
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But it's s0 c00l.... -------------
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Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 7:57am
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lol yes that would be rather annoying!! ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4
 
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 8:00am
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<bangs head against desk> I dont have much hope in the next generation when I see stuff like this.... My grandfather (in his 70s) has started texting like this, because his young granddaughters (13) have taught him to text....it drives me mental! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: jaycee
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 8:03am
Oh my god. I think my brain melted and dribbled out me ears trying to read that post Mucky 
Is it "cool"? (personal opinion - it makes them look stupid) -------------   
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Posted By: naysgirl
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 8:18am
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I hate it when people write like that. It takes twice as long to read what they have written!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 9:22am
My teenage sister does that. Sometimes, her 'textspeak' words have more letters than the original  I think she thinks it's cool... I'm sure (or at least i sure hope!) she'll grow out of it.-------------   
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Posted By: LouD
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 9:25am
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I wonder what hope our children have if they are concentrating on writing the "wrong" way. It drives me nuts too. Its the new In thing. I wonder how long it will take until no one remembers the correct way to spell things........not to mention how random the words are to describe
I have also wondered about the people that spend all that time pressing Caps on and off to gEt tHaT eFfEct.......(those three words too me ages to just type) OH DEAR OH DEAR OH DEAR!!!!! that generation thinks it super cool.........altho by mid 20s I think its time to grow the F up!!!! ETA - thought i better fix up my own grammar error....lol |
Posted By: Nothing
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 9:27am
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My younger cousin (13) does it, I just reply and tell her to write in english or else I will ignore her, and never take her out..... ------------- 
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Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 9:38am
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Ahh yes, this is one of my pet hates, I just don't get it. Especially when like Kelly described they make the word longer or equal in length but replace as many letters as possible, its just crazy.
I've even seen it on facebook and in txts from people who I thought were intelligent and well educated. I feel like an 'old fuddy-duddy' when I say all that. -------------  
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Posted By: MyLilSquishy
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 10:58am
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lol I was just discussing this last night!
drives me spare. and i can never understand them. my little brother (almost 18) types like that all the time. I make him resend his texts or messages with predictive text (or actual english) |
Posted By: CarleyRose
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 11:00am
I must say i do type that like sometimes, but not very often at all!, i guess being in an office you have to write properly! But some people just go totally overboard!------------- TTC Sept08 July10 FS APP ICSI#1 BFN-No frosties ICSI#2 BFN-2 Frosties FET-8th August - BFP 20/8/12 http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: tictacjunkie
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 3:15pm
| Oh that drives me crazy, literally gives me a headache. My MUM texts like that sometimes, she's 46! What's worse is when they talk like that as well after being perfectly capable of speaking clear english for years. I guess we have people like Paris Hilton to thank for making it fashionable to act stupid. Ugh & white boys who dress, act & talk like African American gangsters, that does my head in as well. |
Posted By: Happy lady
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 3:16pm
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I cant tell you where I heard this... I think from a friend who is a school teacher, but she said that quite a few of her students will submit essays written in that type of "Text" english, because they actually do not know how to spell most of those words as all they ever do is abbreviate....
Can you imagine having to read and mark an essay written in english like that.... NO THANKS!!! (Oh and she cant give them a big fat zero, as technically they just loose marks for spelling, so she really does have to read it all....)  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: linda
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 4:14pm
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There was a time when having someone say 'yous guys' was enough to drive me spare which is nothing now.
When I was working we would get covering emails with CV's that were written in text talk. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 4:23pm
Hahaha it's so annoying! I had a friend a few years ago who used to write me emails like that - they took so long to read I eventually asked her to write in normal English so I could understand her (she doesn't write to me anymore  ). And I have a couple of young family members on FB who post updates like that too, I don't bother reading them.
I make spelling mistakes sometimes, but not on purpose! ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: BugTeeny
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 5:13pm
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I just don't think there's any excuse for it.
We all went/go to school and all learn English. I have several people in my life who have learnt English as a second (and, in one case, third) language, and their grammar is impeccable. They've learnt the same syllabus/curriculum that we were all taught, so how do Kiwis let their standards fall by the way-side? It's SUCH a pet hate of mine!! (I also think there's no excuse for using contractions incorrectly, but that's a whole other discussion )
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Posted By: ereynolds
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 5:23pm
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ARGH! That totally did my head in reading that- it's also one of my big big pet hates! Especially when they use the same amount of letters! I can understand abbreviating in texts, but on FB?
Matt: it took me about 2 hours 2.5 hours to cln a 1.5t diggr 2day...y do people return a diggr widout evn tryg 2 clean it...lol...bt algud, i mst say it woz a gd dy at wk this avo...:D 23 December 2010 at 18:17 · Like · Comment Reply: lol try speaking plane english matt! It helps! =D dont slang.. you're not texting .. 23 December 2010 at 19:06 · Unlike · 1 person hehe ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 9:46pm
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I hate it too! I hate lingo that is about at the mo its so freaking annoying. DP does EvErY sEcOnD lEtTeR thing when he's doing a nickname on facebook or things like that it pisses me off! I don't have the patience.
I don't have the best spelling but sure as hell don't type like that. OH and when people type like fobs, purposely typing things like pest instead of best. GGGGGAAAAHHHHH! I don't bother to read things if they are spelt stupid ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 18 January 2011 at 9:52pm
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Oooh, my bugbear with the english language is arksed instead of asked... I just about jumped off my chair watching shorty st last night when Scottys mum said that TK 'arksed' for scotty to be bought into shortland st... gah!!!
Text speak when typing on a keyboard drives me nutty too, its no faster typing words in full (ok, with the odd spelling mistake, some of us ARE only human hehe) than it is to type out in text speak. I can kind of understand using text speak when its just letters removed to shorten words as there IS a limit to # of characters per text, but letter replacement doesnt make sense! Agree with whoever said earlier, it takes longer for us to decipher the message than it did for the person sending it to type it out! ------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003  
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Posted By: karenb_chch
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 2:11pm
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Oh gosh yes, I hate text speech with a passion. (I'm such a geek I even use punctuation marks in my texts.) Funnily enough, my brother and DH are both the same, but my mum uses text speech when she texts, although not as much as she used to, since she gets grammatically correct sentences in return.
As a university lecturer, I've never had a complete assignment submitted in text speech, but I do regularly get reports with poor grammar, 'u' instead of 'you' and other issues. I get really harsh with these. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Zaylah
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 2:21pm
At one place I worked, any CV's which came in with that sort of wording, or 'inappropriate' email addresses (eg sexprincess69@hotmail.com) were chucked straight away - even if they had great qualifications etc And I think there is a good point to that. What you do in your social circles is your choice. But when you are trying to get a job? Think about whether the employer would appreciate your 'cool' writing, or would like someone who knows how to be professional! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 2:30pm
Hahaha...I just can't imagine sending a job application from an email like that lol -------------
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Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 2:40pm
I noticed that too! I thought she should know better lol ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 4:26pm
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... fluffed when trying to fix the quote haha ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 4:28pm
Oh and WTF are schools doing some of them are accepting it in exams and papers WTF!!!
That drives me insane, what is the world going to come to if we accept this in our learning institutions ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 6:19pm
haha. i'm a teacher too, and I would hand it back and say "no". My students all know my aversion to text speak. And they know that I wouldn't mark it. I would simply say it failed due to too many errors and to hand it back when they were fixed. |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 6:20pm
| i should add - i am an English teacher. in my other subjects, I probably would accept text speak IF i could read it without having to stop. |
Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 6:33pm
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haha, Bali Haque was my high school principal back in the day! ------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003
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Posted By: Zaylah
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 6:39pm
That brings the small amount of hope I had for our kids down that much further... ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 6:42pm
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Seriously???
Man, when i went to school (back in the day, when kids listened to their elders ) you lost a half mark for every word spelt incorrectly in an exam, even if the exam wasnt in english!
I fear for my childs educational future
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Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 6:43pm
My brother has a white, nz born and raised friend who wears the basketball shorts, caps etc and goes around talking about how his people have been oppressed and that whites should suffer like his ancestors did. Figure that out... ETA: (I mean he runs around going "dayum white gurrrl, you dont know what my people been thru, you go no idea what its like to be in chains") |
Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 6:50pm
Oh yes... you see some hilarious ones... but they don't give a good look at ALL. I really wish I could quote some for you, but my sense of ethics suggests that's not a good idea -------------
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Posted By: Zaylah
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 7:03pm
Yeah, I must admit I did make that one up. And to be honest, that's not even that bad compared to some aye?! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 7:12pm
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Oh yes. You really wonder what they were thinking when a) they made the address and b) they put it on their CV. -------------
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Posted By: DJ
Date Posted: 19 January 2011 at 7:45pm
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hahaha your 70yr old Grandad Mummyfreckle! DP's mum is a bit like that when texting too - but she makes up all kinds of abbreviations to make shorter texts - sometimes they are a real challenge to make out.
I also can't stand seeing my teenage cousins write like this on facebook - I just assume they are all too dumb to know how to write properly! I've never been so stunned as when one cousin said she had passed NCEA English (even said passed, not past (but she didn't capitalise the E!) Everything else she has ever written has every spelling and grammatical error possible!
I'm so pleased that OB people don't write like this! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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