Poll: Biggest Offender Against the English Language?

[JemJar]

I say America.

This. The inability to select "English (UK)" on almost every program I install.

 

[Nazulu]

I would say 1337 speak by alot because I cannot even make out the words they spell! Especially back when CS first came out and everybody was chatting with 1337 speak, drove me bat shit!

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

Chav speak seriously grind's my nogging...I would be the first to raise my hand when it comes to admitting that I am not a great speller, but all this "u ot 2nte lol cu thre" shit - Is just pure laziness at the end of the day!

1337 I don't mind if the word is spelt correctly and grammar is correct, and if it's not used to excess. It's old but still a rather good use of ascii in my opinion.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

Whichever minority group decided that grammar and punctuation wasn't "fly," and concluded that the truly powerful, cool and rich gangsters were those who had rejected language comprehension and sentence structure back in their school days.

In other words, 50 cent types and the white gangsta wannabes who worship at the feet of said arrogant jerks. Sure, butchering the English language can be fun when done satirically, but these people are completely serious about it. At least I assume they do. If they really are all playing a massive joke on us, rappers are much smarter and more clever than I've given them credit for.

I don't hate them or anything, but I think they're most responsible for the degradation of proper English sentence structure.

This, a thousand times over.
And the kids that look up to them similarly butcher the hell out of language in an attempt to be as cool as them.
Think I'm kidding? Go to souljaboytellem.com (my old trolling outlet before they changed the chat function) and just read some of the shit they say in the chatroom.
It's appalling.


The English language is a beautiful thing when used correctly.
It saddens me that fewer and fewer people are even trying to use it, instead degenerating once again into unintelligible grunts and snorts.

"Yes" becomes "yuh", "certainly" becomes "fo sho"... and so on.

 

[oktalist]

General illiteracy/all of the above.

 

[Ignatius87]

I voted other because there was no "all of the above" option.

 

[Falien]

Chat rooms, where it all began.

This.

 

[fenixrising]

Thats the beauty with English it can mutate and new words can be created almost daily. English is a contstant evolving and chaning language.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I hate that texting crap. It takes four minutes to text, badly with horrible grammar, what you could say in a couple seconds.

 

[Atvomat_Nikonov]

Everytime I see text speak, I die a little.

"u ot 2nte lol cu thre"

Ouch.

 

[Yegargeburble]

I blame them all, especially text messages. And I know how much pain in the ass it is to text stuff with acceptable grammar. So I don't even use them anymore -_- Much easier and faster to just call anyways.

Im with Gormourn. My brain doesnt work in text speak, I must have proper grammar if I dont my brain starts to melt. I catch crap from my freinds when I text, about how it takes too long to read a well thought out and proplerly typed message. Calling is much easier.

Funny thing about texting for me is that all the people I send text messages to use proper grammar and spelling in texts. I do as well, but I am still blaming texting.

EDIT:

Everytime I see text speak, I die a little.

"u ot 2nte lol cu thre"

Ouch.

Ouch indeed. That was almost unreadable for me.

 

[doesthislookinfected]

Rappers.

 

[ae86gamer]

I gotta say texting. I remember by mistake I wrote a whole paper using u instead of you and so on. I got a D+ on the paper -_-

 

[oliveira8]

I gotta say texting. I remember by mistake I wrote a whole paper using u instead of you and so on. I got a D+ on the paper -_-

Lol u got owned!

Anyway I say all are the biggest offender against the english language.

EVen better! I say all are of those options offend every language in Earth.

 

[Twilight_guy]

leet. It's killing the English language by slowly suffocating it and dragging down into the depths of the internet.

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?

Because when we won the Revolutionary War we had to find some way to stick it to you guys.