JMH
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- Apr 2, 2012
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Texting May Lead to Bad Grammar
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Texting of horrible... Yet I find adults use more poor grammar when they text then do my peers...
On a side note, I do intentionally use poor grammar when talking with some friends...
I use a lot of third person...
Geoff his feeling hungry
JaidynM
BSOD Kernel Dump Senior Analyst
I text quite a lot but I tend to use proper grammar and punctuation rather than sp33k lik dis.
Geoff just uses lots of "S"s and speaks in third person... There are also a ton of inside jokes so others may be confused :)
This is probably overkill but all my texts are grammatically correct, apostrophe's, commas, the whole lot. The only time I don't is when I'm abroad and have to stick to the character limit whilst saying as much as possible.
Stephen
Stephen
Well...
I almost always text with full sentences and proper grammar and punctuation.
However, when I am texting off my mother's phone, I generally use uber-hardcore txtspk. Sometimes when my mother wants a long message written, I type it for her because I am faster than she is. Quite a lot of this extra speed comes from txtspk, but she hasn't worked that out yet. She just likes my fast typing! lol.
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I almost always text with full sentences and proper grammar and punctuation.
However, when I am texting off my mother's phone, I generally use uber-hardcore txtspk. Sometimes when my mother wants a long message written, I type it for her because I am faster than she is. Quite a lot of this extra speed comes from txtspk, but she hasn't worked that out yet. She just likes my fast typing! lol.
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JaidynM
BSOD Kernel Dump Senior Analyst
Hehe, my mum is the same. If I'm around she refuses to type her own texts.
No problem here -- I don't have a text plan on my cell phone. 
Kosh Vorlon
Contributor
I have texting on my cell phone (a minimal amount came standard), but I never use it since the phone isn't designed for it (no keyboard). While I typically do use proper grammer, I sometimes do "cheat" a bit - what can I say? As an author, my books are always grammatically correct - but that's a different situation.
Is anyone thinking that use of poor grammar (or shortcuts like IMHO or FWIW) in texting tends to flow into all areas and creates or causes bad grammar as one begins to forget the proper ways? I'm inclined to believe that it's a special case due to the difficulty (even for those good at it), the desire to keep messages short, and probably where it is occurring (like stopped at a red light). I don't accept that if the basic skills exist in the first place that texting has an impact. I suspect the problem isn't texting as much as a decline in teaching grammar, too much reliance on computer tools like Word's "grammar check" (which is far from always right), and perhaps even a decline in students caring about grammar at the stage it is normally taught.
But to be honest, while I attempt to remain grammatically-correct myself, the important thing is to communicate the message. I'd rather see a thorough and detailed post I can understand with grammar problems than a grammatically-correct post where I'm forced to ask questions to try to figure out the meaning.
Is anyone thinking that use of poor grammar (or shortcuts like IMHO or FWIW) in texting tends to flow into all areas and creates or causes bad grammar as one begins to forget the proper ways? I'm inclined to believe that it's a special case due to the difficulty (even for those good at it), the desire to keep messages short, and probably where it is occurring (like stopped at a red light). I don't accept that if the basic skills exist in the first place that texting has an impact. I suspect the problem isn't texting as much as a decline in teaching grammar, too much reliance on computer tools like Word's "grammar check" (which is far from always right), and perhaps even a decline in students caring about grammar at the stage it is normally taught.
But to be honest, while I attempt to remain grammatically-correct myself, the important thing is to communicate the message. I'd rather see a thorough and detailed post I can understand with grammar problems than a grammatically-correct post where I'm forced to ask questions to try to figure out the meaning.
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Kosh Vorlon
Contributor
Good Lord! Are you saying that actually has meaning to anyone indiginous to planet earth?
lol! Yes it does. It is called l33t speak, and is quite unfashionable at the moment. It is all about forming the shape of letters using symbols, e.g.
$ --> s
4 --> a
( --> c
/\/\ --> M
I will start you off. The first sentence is "I completely agree."
Can you see that? Can you translate the rest?
lol.
Wow............Wow!!! I sort of get it with your explanation.........ishniemiro said:
Stephen
This has been around for years, the l33t-sp34k g3n3r4t0r (leet speak generator): http://ryanross.net/leet/. Unfortunately, it doesn't do reverse translations. :)
This one does both ways :smile9: http://www.jayssite.com/stuff/l33t/l33t_translator.html
Thanks, Stephen. That made it easy to translate niemiro's post without straining my brain. :)
No problem Corrine, I needed to use it myself.
It probably wasn't my best post. I wrote out the l33t manually, and wasn't so concerned about what I was actually writing!
Not to worry. You weren't being graded on your l33t sp34k. :)