Game/internet speak in real life
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Owned is acceptable because it works in real life.
But IRL speak is for IRL and OTI speak is for OTI.
When people say lol It really annoys me.
But IRL speak is for IRL and OTI speak is for OTI.
When people say lol It really annoys me.
I use lol, noob, pwn, own and wtfaakK! iN Real life but that's only when i talk. It would not ever cross my mind to actually write that in a essay. But that might be just because i'm a royalist and a patriot and i would never neglect my country's language with such [sup]written[/sup] words.
What if they had intelligent and insightful things to say? A lot of text-speak is effectively just shorthand, which can be invaluable in a society where actually writing by hand is a skill which is almost never called for EXCEPT on exams. This is equivalent to basing your meritocracy primarily on the quality of their handwriting: It may have worked in ancient China, but it's hopelessly outdated now. I would rather have a paper full of abbreviations than one that isn't finished because the time ran out. If we were talking about, say, a proper academic paper, then I would be inclined to agree with you (presentation and formality are more important when you actually have the time to do it properly).Lord Mountbatten Reborn said:
People used all kinds of abbreviations and shortcuts in telegrams, they just used different ones from the one's people use while typing and texting now because that was a completely different form of communication and not even remotely equivalent.
Given how fast stuff changes now, it seems to me that more conflict between old and new is to be expected.
Yes, it's retarded. Can't help but use these abbreviations too. Might stop, once turn 50 or something... If the world doesn't take any more U-turns, that is.
Yes, it's retarded. Can't help but use these abbreviations too. Might stop, once turn 50 or something... If the world doesn't take any more U-turns, that is.
Do you expect examiners to understand these abbreviations? People can abbreviate something in an individual way. They'd have to create a table to let the examiner know what the hell they even meant. It's for their benefit as much as the examiner's - a completely unreadable paper may lose many valuable marks merely for its illegibility. I have to make an effort to make sure my handwriting is presentable in terms of how neat it looks - if people must continue to use text-speak, surely they can make an exception for things important to their future lives?OtherSideofSky said:
whenever i hear people speak like that in real life i (no joke) slap them across the face as hard as i can.
its ignorant, retarded, and nerdy. and i think speaking in whatever people call online talk insults and confuses the people you talk to and lessens us as a people because you're too damn lazy to speak the proper fucking language.
like the album from the stormtroopers of death: speak english or die.
its ignorant, retarded, and nerdy. and i think speaking in whatever people call online talk insults and confuses the people you talk to and lessens us as a people because you're too damn lazy to speak the proper fucking language.
like the album from the stormtroopers of death: speak english or die.
I never use text speak in conversation, and happily give anyone who does in my presence a very... stern talking-to. Hell, I hardly use text speak in text. Maybe the occasional "ROFL", but that's only when something genuinely funny happens, and because "HAHAHAHAHAHA" looks very obnoxious to me.
My problem here is that, except on exams (and not even on most of those), students are simply no longer required to do a significant amount of writing by hand. It is simply not a skill in which they receive sufficient training to be evaluated on their ability to do it. I remember doing more writing taking three years of Chinese at the end of High School than in the entire rest of my public school classes put together, and I know I'm not alone in this (I was always running out of time on written exams, even though I always did very well on essays composed outside of class). Abbreviations like "lol" obviously have no place in a paper of any kind because they simply don't communicate a relevant concept, but most abbreviations that anyone would use in a good essay are easily decipherable by the average thinking person.Lord Mountbatten Reborn said:
If this kind of legibility is going to be used to determine a person's future, then handwriting needs to be taught at a much higher level than it is under the current system.
Additionally, it would hardly be difficult to identify common abbreviations and compile a reference sheet like the one you suggest. There really aren't that many elements of text-speak that should ever come up in a paper, seeing as most of them are just for conveying emotion.
I say lol and stfu out loud sometimes, but always jokingly. And I would never write anything like that in school.
Yeah, the last time this happened to me, I just walked away from the person who said it. Didn't let them finish their sentence, either. I then explained later that I couldn't talk to them ever again.Quaxar said:
We laughed about it the next day... Apparently my burning hatred towards the term 'lol' when used non-ironically to indicate humour is funny.
