Poll: Biggest Offender Against the English Language?

[Aschenkatza]

You can hardly blame Fan Fiction. It's like the step before publishing a book.

It's pure laziness that killed the English language!!

 

[Shade Jackrabbit]

@Tygerfire:
Pretty sure that issue stems from instant and text messaging. I see enough teens with their damned cellphones glued to the palms of their hands.

Punch them in the neck.
I can get away with it, being a teenager myself. Maybe you can too, and together, we make the world a better place.

*pulls on punching gloves* Hold on, I want to get in on this action. Is using spiked gloves okay?

 

[TaborMallory]

I say America.

Ninja'd.

I don't know if this is true about other countries, but ours seems to have bad learning material / bad students. If we actually took the time to learn proper English in the first place, this would've never happened.

This makes me so angry sometimes... the English classes here skip learning English and instead we write pointless essays and read pointless books. If we actually, you know, learn grammar and spelling, I wouldn't feel so annoyed at the ignorant that litter our schools.
Who agrees?


I might say, though..

1337 |2|_|135 /-\11.

I'm embarrassed that I can read this.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

"L33t" speak. When I see someone using that, or using "u" instead of "you" and so on and so forth I'm getting really close to raging.

 

[Shade Jackrabbit]

@Tygerfire:
Pretty sure that issue stems from instant and text messaging. I see enough teens with their damned cellphones glued to the palms of their hands.

Punch them in the neck.
I can get away with it, being a teenager myself. Maybe you can too, and together, we make the world a better place.

*pulls on punching gloves* Hold on, I want to get in on this action. Is using spiked gloves okay?

It is encouraged.

This makes me so angry sometimes... the English classes here skip learning English and instead we write pointless essays and read pointless books. If we actually, you know, learn grammar and spelling, I wouldn't feel so annoyed at the ignorant that litter our schools.
Who agrees?

I absolutely agree. I never learned any grammar or spelling in school. I learned it all by copying other people over the internet, for the most part.
Still, I spell better than most, and my grammar, while not up to the same level, isn't completely awful.

In response to second response: That's why they should split classes into "Language Usage and Oratory" and "History of the English Language".

In response to the first response: Huzzah. >=D

 

[Marv21]

4chan?

 

[Matronadena]

other : this includes " ALL THE ABOVE + "

 

[TaborMallory]

@Tygerfire:
Pretty sure that issue stems from instant and text messaging. I see enough teens with their damned cellphones glued to the palms of their hands.

Punch them in the neck.
I can get away with it, being a teenager myself. Maybe you can too, and together, we make the world a better place.

*pulls on punching gloves* Hold on, I want to get in on this action. Is using spiked gloves okay?

It is encouraged.

I say America.

Ninja'd.

I don't know if this is true about other countries, but ours seems to have bad learning material / bad students. If we actually took the time to learn proper English in the first place, this would've never happened.

This makes me so angry sometimes... the English classes here skip learning English and instead we write pointless essays and read pointless books. If we actually, you know, learn grammar and spelling, I wouldn't feel so annoyed at the ignorant that litter our schools.
Who agrees?

I absolutely agree. I never learned any grammar or spelling in school. I learned it all by copying other people over the internet, for the most part.
Still, I spell better than most, and my grammar, while not up to the same level, isn't completely awful.

I didn't have the privilege of learning more advanced grammar and spelling in school.
Funny thing is, I learned it all from the internet.

It is encouraged.

This is the funniest thing I've read today.

...and with that, I'm off to bed. School starts in 6 hours (oh shit)...

 

[Shapsters]

@Tygerfire:
Pretty sure that issue stems from instant and text messaging. I see enough teens with their damned cellphones glued to the palms of their hands.

Damn kids these days!! Back in my day...

 

[Aramax]

I suppose the biggest offender against the english language would be me... and it's not only because i'm french. I can't stand net slang in french and would rather avoid most of the people from where I live since, let's face it, i'm one arrogant bastard, that can't tolerate people with different mindsets and opinions then my own, who always make corny jokes that others often find annoying... and I talk too much and make many gramatical mistakes.

So... I guess I surrender now?

 

[Booze Zombie]

Text speak makes me want to blow people up with my mind.

 

[captainwolfos]

I'd say all of the above, but since that's not possible, Fan Fiction.



Texting is both a blessing and a curse; there are those who absolutely destroy language using texts, and others who help the language to evolve through efficient use of synonyms and short hand.

I agree with these statements.

Texting is a good idea; I personally prefer to text people than call them because if I call someone I either forget what I'm going to say or I talk about a load of random crap and eventually forget what I originally called them for.
I cannot stand people who txt lik dis 'cause it causes my brain to malfunction, shut down and eventually completely disregard the text. I always text with the correct spelling and grammar, though the fact is sometimes it's impossible to do so without spending money for more than one text due to the damned text limit.

Off topic, though. You have an awesome avatar.

 

[rottenbutter]

I'd say the internet in general. It has spread this horribal english all across the globe.

(Side note: TheTygerfire, awesome avatar. Ichijo = win)

 

[McClaud]

I say America.

Although I saw a Monty Python YouTube video with hundreds of young people from Britain commenting, and none of those people could spell or use proper grammar either. More than half of them didn't even PUNCTUATE their sentences.

So it's not just the US. Which, btw, isn't the largest English speaking country in the world any more.

It's China.

So get ready for a WHOLE other group of manglers to enter the fray.

 

[Fraeir]

I've luckily indoctrinated myself to write with full words, and with grammar as correct as I can, and you may add capital letters in the word "I" and the start of names and sentences.
I do it on forums, I do it in IM'ing, I do it in games. Whenever I "1337"-speak, I do so out of spite and for obvious sarcasm.

I even have to spell-check my typo-ing!

 

[Archaon6044]

All of the above

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Ok, my view.

The Americans.
I mean, we spell it Colour, not Color.
The same with Armour, and oh yeah, it's called a pavement, not a side-walk. It's called a lift, not an elevator. It's called a chip, not a fry. It's called a crisp, not a chip!

Why did you do this to our language?

 

[painfull2006]

Youz americans stealzing our languages!! then they use teh brokenz spells checkers of googley chrome and it dieded!

 

[Bob_Bobbington]

I'd say leet only because for a year 12 exam we got a poem written in leet. Most stupid thing I have ever seen.