Thread: Stupid people and their retarded English. Die die die!!!

Is it more intelligent to use more keystrokes to convey the same message? Perhaps those of us who type full words on the internet are being left behind by the next evolution of language.

Yeah I suppose if things progress at this rate, we'll be f-ing telepathic within a decade.

Originally Posted by benTENDO

yeaz welz u rnt gon get far wif dat atitood.
peepz shud b abl 2 rite how dey wanna.

That's like saying people should talk however they want to. Seriously, try to imagine somebody speaking like that. How well would you be able to understand them? Even if you could understand them, would you feel annoyed at all because they can't be bothered to speak well?

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

Is it more intelligent to use more keystrokes to convey the same message? Perhaps those of us who type full words on the internet are being left behind by the next evolution of language.

That's not evolution, that's anal rape. Keystrokes don't matter. It doesn't matter that this is all text. The fact remains that this is still a language. Does somebody who speaks like benTENDO's example sound intelligent?

I'm not a huge grammar nazi, but there's only so much I can tolerate. The basic "u" and "r" are pushing it, but at least it's still understandable if that's all they change. I don't even care if people use the shift key or not.

It's not just about spelling, either. Some people absolutely refuse to use any punctuation or even dare press the "enter" key once, just as our friend iq183 demonstrated. Maybe we would have thought he was just a little bit less crazy if he had been capable of writing intelligently. A college would laugh at a letter typed like that and immediately trash it.

Originally Posted by Wolfsbane

That's like saying people should talk however they want to. Seriously, try to imagine somebody speaking like that. How well would you be able to understand them? Even if you could understand them, would you feel annoyed at all because they can't be bothered to speak well?

Me and my brother do talk like that, although it is a joke.
We randomly add the sound of "z" on the end of words and actually say "lol" all the other words which I wrote in that sentence is the way which we would pronounce them.

ME: "hey bruz wotz up yo?"
HIM: "nm g, just chillin in teh kribz"
ME: "I iz 1337"

People do talk however they want to, people have been talking in slang since quite some time ago, I don't see how it is different today.

It always irritates me when someone leaves a word out in a sentence or says you where your should go, or the is instead of am "I is poor" like "u a lucid dreamr?' I don't know why that bugs me . But yeah I play runescape, and everyone in that game about irritates me with the way they speak, it just makes me feel like they don't care. I always type with my best spelling wherever I am.

And yes lol a friend of mine and me actually sound out words like lol and lmao.

Originally Posted by Wolfsbane

That's like saying people should talk however they want to. Seriously, try to imagine somebody speaking like that. How well would you be able to understand them? Even if you could understand them, would you feel annoyed at all because they can't be bothered to speak well?

It sounds to me that you have a problem with street slang, because that can be really hard to understand if you don't know the lingo. Welcome to the streets, sister.

But for me, slang is one of those things about language that I love. It amuses and interests me. When I started going to college, I met people from different places who had slightly different slang from me (or no slang at all.) Most of us are from Southern Ontario and it's amazing to see how the slang differs from area to area. And when I started chilling with these people, our slangs ended up combining. It's just one of the more interesting aspects of language for me.

One of the best thing about ant self-respecting internet forum is seeing people who come in talking like this, get slapped around and then leave talking in ways other people can understand.

Originally Posted by arby

One of the best thing about ant self-respecting internet forum is seeing people who come in talking like this, get slapped around and then leave talking in ways other people can understand.

Originally Posted by arby

One of the best thing about ant self-respecting internet forum

Originally Posted by arby

best thing about ant self-respecting internet forum

Originally Posted by arby

ant self-respecting

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ant

What?

Originally Posted by Kushna Mufeed

What?

lololololololololololololol!1!!!11!2!eleven!1

That is the exact same thing I thought when I saw it.

How did those two extra letters get in there?

Originally Posted by Kushna Mufeed

How did those two extra letters get in there?

Well, the topic name explains it.

Also "Contradiction!" ? I saw it before you deleted it! Muahahhahaaha.

Meh. I jumped the gun. Fuck off. I'm brain dead and have an exam in 3 hours.

Illiteracy and laziness do not equal "evolution of language". They equal illiteracy and laziness.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

My friend Desiree posted a note on facebook about giving up getting a career in television because she keeps getting rejected from places. Well here's a brilliant little comment a friend of hers posted:

"Desi, noooooooo we both have worked 2 hard 4 this and we WILL b on tv im havin a hard time 2, i think im gonna go back 2 school not @ niu but the illinois center 4 broadcastin it sounds really cool let me kno if u want info but i will not let u give up! if im not then u cant cmon co-anchor we will get through this successfully"

And this coming from a college graduate, not just some 14 year old who plays video games all day. Kill me, Jebus.

Or maybe Desiree's friend uses her mobile phone to communicate through text messaging and got used to typing that way in front of the computer.

Anyway don't bother her. You are only complaining about people communicating that way through the social networking site (Facebook). She wouldn't do that when it comes to finishing the thesis project with her colleagues. Who knows, someone might be bad at typing, but once you hear him/her talking fluently in English.. what would you say then?

Originally Posted by eliza_leigh

Or maybe Desiree's friend uses her mobile phone to communicate through text messaging and got used to typing that way in front of the computer.

Anyway don't bother her. You are only complaining about people communicating that way through the social networking site (Facebook). She wouldn't do that when it comes to finishing the thesis project with her colleagues. Who knows, someone might be bad at typing, but once you hear him/her talking fluently in English.. what would you say then?

"Stop typing like that on Facebook"

^ Yeah pretty much.

So this was written by a senior communications major at my school. There was a link to this on the front page called Whats sleep, I was hoping they were doing more studies on sleep or something, but sadly no.

"some may say that finals week is the most stressful week of the year but for me its always the week before. i dont know y but im always more calm finals week. i only have 2 finals this semester, one on tuesday and one on friday. so far this week i’ve had to write 3 papers, 1 15-25 page script, and a take home final all due thursday, sweet week huh? oh well i have most of it done already do im good.

so i told everyone that the mens and womens basketball teams will win the first games in the new savage. i love when im rite and if u missed the mens game, u missed a good one. packed arena, last second tip in to win the game, students rush the cort, it was a great way to break in the new savage and to keep the excitement alive. i’ve been goin to basketball games here for 4 years and that might have been the most exciting game i’ve been to. then the womens team gets in there and beat north dakota by 8. good job both teams and hopefully we they can keep the excitement going this weekend.

in sadder news, for everyone that knows me knows im a BIG red sox fan. when i woke up this morning i got the sad new that CC Sabathia is gonna sign with the yankees. i use to like CC till this morning, now he’s just another over paied yankee. we all see how thats worked with A-Rod, Giambi, and the others on the team. atleast when we pay our players we win"

Apparently he's also the president of the school's telivision program.

Weird paragraph makes meh brain hurtez.

What I don't get is HoW tYpInG lIkE tHiS sAvEs AnY tImE iT's TaKiNg Me FoReVeR tO TyPe LiKe ThIs AnD iT's KiNd Of A pAiN tO rEaD wTf Is ThE pOiNt????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am never doing that again.

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