No. they don't teach that in school, Rick; it is the shorthand used in texting and chat rooms. It also comes with a bunch of acronyms, shudder, (pos = parent's over shoulder, or cyal8r) and curious words, as in "look b4 u leap" just glad i dont no nuthin bout it
I know that. It was sarcasm.No. they don't teach that in school, Rick; it is the shorthand used in texting and chat rooms. It also comes with a bunch of acronyms, shudder, (pos = parent's over shoulder, or cyal8r) and curious words, as in "look b4 u leap" just glad i dont no nuthin bout itAnd thanks for the compliment, mate!
Thats a sad story agent... her father fixed her marriage when she was 9 and her kid is her new husbands first kid.
I don't know about Phil... but my mom raised me under a heat lamp and consistently fed me very well.
HA! lol its funny cuase she a mantis lol, haha...I don't know about Phil... but my mom raised me under a heat lamp and consistently fed me very well.
Yep and believe it or not my "old" butt has been known to use it.I wasn't sure that texting had come to NC, yet, Rick. We need a sarcasm smiley!
I'll second that. I was never very good in school myself and I LOVE how Mozilla FireFox underlines (IN RED) all of my misspelled words, and then allows me to right-click and pick the correct spellings.No. they don't teach that in school, Rick; it is the shorthand used in texting and chat rooms. It also comes with a bunch of acronyms, shudder, (pos = parent's over shoulder, or cyal8r) and curious words, as in "look b4 u leap" just glad i dont no nuthin bout itAnd thanks for the compliment, mate!
that same kid is typing like this "wat do u guys no bout mantids?"
Wow. Things sure have changed... and not necessarily all for the better. Thanks for the enlightenment.I'll second that. I was never very good in school myself and I LOVE how Mozilla FireFox underlines (IN RED) all of my misspelled words, and then allows me to right-click and pick the correct spellings.Funny how it all begins... I'm 29 and still remember how important spelling was when filling out homework and such. When I got into high school, this completely changed. All homework was required to be typed up on a computer. The only thing I HAD to write out with a pencil was my math.. and that required VERY little spelling...
Along comes college and not only are papers required to be turned in... typed... some professors would allow you to email or print your homework. Whichever you wanted to do. Towards the end of college, it would be required that we email the papers.
Spelling was no longer a concern... Microsoft Word took care of my spelling.
Growing up we always had a dictionary in the house along with a theseuras and even a hand-me-down set of encyclopedia books. I distinctly remember sneaking one of those encyclopedia's out of the bookshelf and into the back of the garage so my friend and I could point and giggle at the naked tribal men and woman in the encyclopedia.
I can't remember the last time I owned any of those books. I don't anymore. I now giggle when I see them at the book store.
Even before college and before the World Wide Web... I remember AOL being the coolest thing! You could look up words, or get help with your homework. Something called "chat rooms" and "instant messaging" came along.
Even before that were BBS's... "bulletin board systems" where hackers or geeks would gather via a dial-up modem to talk in "forums" or on "boards". Hackers would type out huge.. long instructions on how to do things.... we would get so tired of typing things out like... complimentary metal oxide semiconductor so... we called it CMOS (sea-moss). Soon, we shortened as many words as we could. It made things so much easier to type while drinking your mountain dew and reading code books or old unix command books. I was maybe 13 or 14 years old.. and BBS's were hard to find and my mom always got upset at the phone bills.
When AOL hit... we used it for sharing more information... creating secret chat rooms with code-names so only we could find them. AOL would close them down but they would pop back up. AOL would only allow files of a certain size... say... 1 megabyte... so if you wanted some game.. or some scanned-in electronic book... you would have to split these files into smaller pieces... archives they were called and we used this little known application called WINZIP or RAR or ARJ... to zip up our pirated stuff... then we'd run bots in our hacker rooms to share the files.. the bots would take requests and auto-email you the archived files. It was great... I remember a hacker group named Black Ice... because the chat room was like B1ack1c3. See, AOL would run scans for chat rooms but wouldn't see us because of the #'s in our room names.
wow.. sorry.... lol...
So... texting and instant messaging and typing things out at a quick pace became a higher priority. Go to a high school... any high school and ask to talk to a teacher... ask her for one of her students final-draft papers.. and you'll see that the spelling is great and dead on!
Well.... depends on your perspective. Less time worrying about spelling means more time for other things.Wow. Things sure have changed... and not necessarily all for the better. Thanks for the enlightenment.
You know it. B) I had the tape. No idea where I got it (probably stole itWell.... depends on your perspective. Less time worrying about spelling means more time for other things.Less time typing out full words (spelled correctly or not) means more time for other things.
Today I look at youth... that long hair... so sloppy. Those 1980's pants.... this music... these bubble-gum mass-produced pop princesses. Didn't we do this already? Didn't we have Vanilla Ice, Paula Abdul... didn't we do that whole... fake, crappy, poppy, simpleton music?
and then I realize... lol.. I LOVED Vanilla Ice! I used to listen to Paula Abdul and Madonna! haha
When I was a teen... I listened to gangster rap and pretended I was "tough" living in Orland Park, IL (Golf Capital of the World). lol
I had UGLY hair too... When I listened to my music... my parents or those older than me told me it was junk....
These things... we look at them and we say "the world is going to heck" but it's always been like that... my dad's parents thought Hendrix, Led Zepplin was INSANELY AWFUL! What kind of noise is that!!!!??? the world is going to heck!! lol oh oh... and when Elvis thrust his hips on national television!! SATAN IS COMING WE ARE ALL DEAD!! lol
The truth is, your mind is not doing well at adjusting to the latest and greatest... the newer generations do things that make us shake our heads.. as we did things that made our parent shake their heads.. and none of us our immune to this line of thought....
Phil... what did your generation do to disgust your parents?
Kat, your only what... 9 years ahead of me? What did you do? How about that big hair? What about those tight-rolled jeans? You rebel you! lol
Rick, your close to my age... did you listen to that horrible Guns N' Roses?! You MUST be on drugs if you listen to them!! lol Nirvana? What is THAT noise!? turn that down right now!! ha
What is this world coming to!
With that being said... watz ur prblm?
Let me finish with this, and go to bed.... I do think some things are going to heck... yes... here is a video that outlines this... enjoy and good night
) and listened to it ALL the time. I think texting has its place but too many people let that shorthand get the best of them. That stuff isn't gonna fly in college or in a professional setting at work. I think many young people forget how to do it correctly. Technology is great but it's making us lazy. Since I went back to school this summer I find that younger people get on my nerves. I'm 31 going on 45. We should do a thread where you post a pic of you when you were younger.
O.K. So now you are officially a teenager and will have to behave like all our other well mannered, responible, mantis loving teenagers for the next seven years. And no more keyboard dyspraxia!okay. If your wondering what that "nhjyumiu" was about, if I was lying and I died, my head would fall on the keyboard like that.
