Precalc anyone?

[LazyEagle]

I see that "meh" has made it into the dictionary now.

To be honest, I don't mind using slang etc, so long as they are proper words.
Language is ever evolving and we speak considerably different to those even a 100 years ago, that's life, get over it.

However, I have a huge problem with that text speak bollocks, and I have a feeling its going to greatly contribute to the fall in literacy levels in the coming years.
I'm sure Bosco can back this up, and I've heard this from several other friends who work in colleges and schools, but students now think its perfectly acceptable to hand in assignments written in this garble.

Now I can fully understand textspeak for text messages, where you might have a limited number of characters, but in a fucking college essay, its unacceptable!

[Jonnywhy]

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!

You've posted this before Nova. OLD!

[-Spooky-]

Local slang, ghetto slang, homie slang, workers slang, suburb slang. slam alonge dingdong..

ROFL

but in a fucking college essay, its unacceptable!

w0rd!

[dintbo(aka bosco)]

However, I have a huge problem with that text speak bollocks, and I have a feeling its going to greatly contribute to the fall in literacy levels in the coming years.
I'm sure Bosco can back this up, and I've heard this from several other friends who work in colleges and schools, but students now think its perfectly acceptable to hand in assignments written in this garble.

Yeah it happens all the time. I just get them to do it again with actual words. I have no problem with genuine spelling mistakes, but l8r and h8 and all the rest can go fuck off.

[Johnimus Prime]

Additional slang for the dictionary

Jased10s: (jay.ssed.ten.ess)

Definition: (Adverb) To talk complete bollocks about a subject (usually unintelligibly)

Synonyms: waffle; babble; drivel; gibberish; prattle

Usage: (typical conversation - refer to tf2.festersplace.com for further examples)
"I got a really big bag for my pussy yesterday"
"What the fuck are you on about man? lol"
"Don't worry, he's just doing a Jased10s again"

[Supernova]

Now I can fully understand textspeak for text messages, where you might have a limited number of characters

Sure, it's understandable, but it makes people look like idiots
(sorry to all the idiots I just insulted) (ahaha)

Personally I'd rather spend the extra 10p and go onto a second message!

[Jonnywhy]

bt fo 10p u cld get lk loadsa stuf...

[MountieXXL]

On a serious note, if it's not the Queen's English, it's wrong
Nah, it just annoys me for some reason when dialects are ... wrong. I don't mind when the yanks or the aussies say "pants", or other such things which have a proper meaning. In my twisted view of "proper" English, English words like "bath" should be considered slang. The American word "bathtub" is much more accurate! Bath to me seems incorrect, just a shortened version of bathtub. (Infact, in all likelihood it used to be bathtub but because people used it so much, it got added to the oxford dictionary )
Anywho...
tl;dr: I have a wierd view of the English language.

Dead wrong on that one, the word "bath" as a noun has been there long before there were any Americans with bathtubs... its just used to generally describe any sort of object used specifically for bathing.

[Johnimus Prime]

On a serious note, if it's not the Queen's English, it's wrong
Nah, it just annoys me for some reason when dialects are ... wrong. I don't mind when the yanks or the aussies say "pants", or other such things which have a proper meaning. In my twisted view of "proper" English, English words like "bath" should be considered slang. The American word "bathtub" is much more accurate! Bath to me seems incorrect, just a shortened version of bathtub. (Infact, in all likelihood it used to be bathtub but because people used it so much, it got added to the oxford dictionary )
Anywho...
tl;dr: I have a wierd view of the English language.

Dead wrong on that one, the word "bath" as a noun has been there long before there were any Americans with bathtubs... its just used to generally describe any sort of object used specifically for bathing.

yeah - and the City of Bath would be fucked if it had to rename itself to 'Bathtub' - just doesn't have quite the same ring to it!

[Supernova]

Well, it was just an example that I was using from the wikipedia article on the differences between British English and American English (did some research to make sure I wasn't arguing something incorrect) - but just consider it as an example. I'm sure there are plenty of other words that make more sense in the American version which could take it's place.

And rename Bath to Bathtub? That's not what I was getting at at all Place names and slang are completely different to correct words!