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By: D&D, Renewed Interest | Massively Obsessed!

D&D, Renewed Interest | Massively Obsessed! — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:24:25 +0000

[...] Text is a shitty way of communicating, which is a phrase you should internalize and repeat on a daily basis. However, I say it because I imagine most of the readers will interpret the article on Week 3 very differently from each other. Did I sound very frustrated? Disappointed? Hopeful? Tired? Excited? Pensive? [...]

By: Archi

Archi — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:20:57 +0000

In my opinion this whole statement (“i dnt hv timez”) should be turned around. Considering you have to spend more time then usual to read the damn hieroglyphs, it comes to a fact that the person who sent you a message is an egoistic “mthfkr”, which i usually ignore for a long period or annoy incase the conversation needs to go on.

By: Paw$er

Paw$er — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:41:04 +0000

wut r u guyz talkin bout…:)

By: Anea

Anea — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:39:20 +0000

I hate the “It isn’t English class/school, so why should I bother?” excuse.

HATE. IT.

I’ve always been told I was awfully high up on my horse when I mention something about their grammar. (Not that I always do… I learned to stop doing that, but sometimes I just can’t stand it any longer and have to say something.)

It is lazy. It is incorrect. It makes you look SO many more times less intelligent than you probably are.

I just… I’ll get too worked up if I continue. But rest assured… I agree. /stampofapproval

By: Zevia

Zevia — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:03:38 +0000

Disreputable – funny you say that about your husband’s friend. I don’t have a texting plan, so every text I send or receive costs me 20 cents. Every time I get a text, I always call the person back and tell them, “Just call and leave a message next time.”

I’m very adamant to any new contacts I make that they don’t send me texts, and they always look at me like I’m insane.

By: Twan

Twan — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:13:43 +0000

Great boondocks clip, I dig the Gravity article as well

By: Sephrenia

Sephrenia — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:38:02 +0000

I think I love you! Will you have my babies?

OK, well maybe that is a bit extreme, I have 2 and they are more than enough trouble, but you have given me so much additional stuff to read! I love the Oatmeal site and Lie to Me is one of my favourite shows.

I’m going to send it to my Mum. When we’re out travelling we love to play ‘Spot the stupid apostrophe’ or ‘I’m illiterate so thought I’d write a sign to prove it the World’ etc.

Yes, I think it is an age thing, but happily my son (who is 15) seems to be able to switch between both txtng and correct usage of English – phew! He laughs at me if I try to use l33t sp34k. I’m just no good at it. It doesn’t flow for me. I’m not in a great hurry and I like speaking to people more than typing (or even writing a letter) to people.

By: Disreputable

Disreputable — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:59:34 +0000

Text speak drives me insane. Whenever I see it I always think back to my dyslectic friend. His writing skills were so god awful but I had a knack for “translating” it into readable english. His writing skills are less painful to comprehend than most of the crap you see on message boards.

My husband has a friend that only texts. He will spend 30 minutes typing out in very brief texts something that can be said in less than 5 minutes. If you call him, he generally won’t answer. If he does pick up he’ll just tell you text him. It’s ridiculous!

I didn’t even know what Twitter was until there was an episode of Nurse Jackie that brought it up. Hell, I didn’t even register on Myspace or Facebook until I ran into friends that just HAD to show my photos but their accounts were blocked to non-friends.

By: Saate

Saate — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:14:20 +0000

While I consider myself a pretty fantastic speller I’ll be the first to admit my grammar and punctuation suck!

It’s for that reason that even thinking about making a post on the internet, in text form, about why these things are important makes me cringe.

I’d be so worried about people looking for mistakes/etc that I’d either spend way too much time on it or not even post it in the end :p

Totally agree on how important it is to have a good grasp of words though. As far as Zevia asking me to provide examples I have a fantastic one!

Having held various management roles over the years I’ve done a fair bit of recruitment and interviewing. The best comment I ever read on a resume was someone talking about their previous job, they wrote:

“Mostly met targets, 50% of the time”

>.>

Gravity wrote a really excellent post about a similar topic too. Called ‘the subtext of a conversation’ and you can read it at http://pwnwear.com/2010/05/07/the-subtext-of-a-conversation/