There are indeed a disturbing number who do not seem to know how to use the space bar...

A friend of mine met this girl and exchanged numbers, only to receive the following text:

"haha purf3kt ima b!z 2m0z w!t w0rk n hav 2 play mwa s0cca game az well ;P
alz yu hav 2 d0 ish wat3va ur heaRt des!res p!k a tym n placen ima b dere x"

How does somebody even talk like that?!?!?!!?


Edited by imnofreak: 28/7/2010 11:59:45 AM

I couldn't talk like that even if I tried. It's easier to just talk normally:lol:

Wow. Does she live in Campbelltown?

:lol: No.

Riverstone :p

FFS its easier 90% of the time to type an sms properly than type utter shite like that.

purf3kt instead of perfect ffs :roll:

I've also heard of HSC students using pathetic grammar and spelling like that in their English exams!

The world is doomed.

^This. FFS, it takes less than 5 minutes to learn how to use T9 predictive text.

Wow! That is poor... I finished in '98, so that was never really an issue for us. But, if that is the case then you're right; DOOMED...

My mum says when I was in kindergarten I brought home the 1st book that I could "read". I proceeded to "read" it to Mum with the book closed and still in my backpack.

The thing I hate with grammar is how to numbers. If you are stating a year you use the numerical symbols (2010) but if you are stating something like a crowd number in your sentence you have to spell it out (nineteen thousand, five hundred and fifty six). I got pulled up all the time when I was at school.

Speaking of numbers... which formatting do you prefer?

1,000,000 or 1 000 000 or 1000000?

Personally I'm a sucker for a good comma.

I use all three. When I am doing rough drafts I use the third option unless I start getting confused about how large the number is. I then add the commas. When I am submitting work I use the spaces.

I hate it when people use a comma as a decimal place it confuses me.

Same.

Mobiles and SMSing became more common in 1999 for me. No one really had a mobile in 98 (and in school).


Exactly. And it takes 5 seconds to add in your own words. "fucken" and "shit" are the first ones always added to mine :lol:

:lol: "shit" was already in mine. :P

This:



Hence why. I me think feel it both can be is serving performing the a same similar function job.

TBH I thought you would have mentioned the "ain't".

I've never noticed that tautology...

This has nothing to do with grammar. But spelling wise the new FIFA 11 ad has been giving me the shits. Its centre, not center

grammar's only needed in certain circumstances, but on a forum, who needs it? just as long as you can spell you're away

but i do get annoyed when people say we're versing this team, you play a team, you don't 'verse' them, arrghh!! #-o

Yeah, I never understood the whole versing thing...

I know, its a forum but you (not you specifically) also need to consider the people who are reading your posts. It takes all of half a second to hold the 'shift' button down to give names and sentences capital letters etc...

To be honest, I actually think it increases the quality of posts throughout the forum.

Imagine having to read pages and pages of text speak?! You wouldn't last long...

YES! So much! So many kids say that at my work (laser tag). Asking if they can 'verse' each other on Daytona etc... It makes me think they will be having a poetry-athlon or something.

yeah, i don't use text speak as i completely agree it can be annoying, especially if you don't understand some of it :lol: but your right about me not typing with capitals, probably won't change though, can't really get out the habit

writing down something i always use proper everything though

Edited by gooner4life_8: 28/7/2010 05:50:42 PM

When I first joined up I didn't use capitals either. But you really should, it makes things easier to read and it isn't hard to do.

Just my opinion. ;)

Have you worked out that de/di thing yet?

:lol: Nope. I gave up on trying to work it out, it will come back to me eventually.

Like I said, it's probably not what I think it is and I'm throwing myself off.

I hate it when that happens. Like trying to remember somebody's name...
Thought process... It starts with L... Lisa, Lauren, Larissa.... nope.... A friend says "Is it Melissa?"... Ahhh yeh that's it :lol:

Thats a bigger killer...

"Hence why" in this circumstance is incorrect.

If say, you asked a question saying "Why are Liverpool better than Manchester United?", it would be perfectly acceptable to go "[argument a], [argument b], [argument c]. Hence, Why Liverpool are better than Manchester United."

My big gripes are with people who use 'text talk' - you're a fucking 'tard if you post like that - or people who can't tell the difference between You're/Your, We're/Were/Where or There/Their/They're. I mean, really?

One of my gripes that I just thought of is referring to products by a brand name. Admittedly I do use some of these. But common usage has made the brands synonymous with their respective products - good for the companies I guess.

eg:
"I need a panadol." Panadol is a brand, you need a pain-killer or paracetamol.
"I need a band-aid." Band-Aid is a Johnson&Johnson brand, you need to harden the fuck up.
"Get me a coke" (implication is usually more toward wanting Coca-Cola specifically rather than just any cola, but the fallacy still occurs when they really just want a cola).

"iPod" seems to be the universal term for '[portable] MP3 player' these days also.

There are others I can't recall right now. But you get the picture.

Funnily enough, 'google' became an accepted verb. :lol: