howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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Whot! Gr8 ma8!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Balderdash & Piffle!!!
It's high time the Daily Mail died out. &I"" ""
"only 82 per cent"
ONLY 82% lol
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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ROFLMAO!!!
English language has always changed and will always continue to do so. Many words are falling out of use or are virtually extinct, but just think how many words the 20th century alone has added. It's just evolution for you, not a good or bad thing but just the way things are and should be.
Mind you, I found predictive text doesn't work for Sblood, Sdeath or Blaggard!
Yours,
Nathaniel Godbepraised.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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fhl,I agree with ya,jn Goodwn
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Jan Higgins
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What a strange article most of the words given as an example stopped being used years ago and are nothing to do with text speak.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Humbug! The standard trooper of the 17th century was no different than today in his choice of vacabulary.
In the same way as the officer spoke a refined language.
It always has been: officers and their ladies, sergeants and their wives, soldiers and their women.
It's a question of class.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i have no problem with language moving on but text speak does not do that.
computer and internet terms have entered the vocabulary, rightly so - but any slang has to have something that amuses us, text speak does not attempt to do so.
rhyming slang as used in many of our major cities fits the bill for me, ever changing but with established idioms.
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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To me text speak reflects a general trend towards aggressive self-glorifying ignorance that you see all around you in Dover.
Evolution - or degeneration - it may be, but since all civilisations eventually collapse, it could be seen as a another nail in the coffin.
See George Orwell's '1984' section on Newspeak for an explanation of how the destruction of language takes capacity for thought with it.
'Evolve' it a bit further and we will back to grunting.
Ugh.
Perhaps we need the equivalent of an Academie Francaise in this country - a body of people who treat language with the reverence it deserves, to safeguard it.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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We should all try and keep this wonderful large vocabulary known as the English Language going; it is also true that many dialect words are being lost - use them or lose them comes to mind !
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Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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Worryingly.. i read that and thought.. hmm i have used those words in the last year...
i told one my suppliers they were turning in laggards with their delivery times and to buck their ideas up..
Rambunctious .. i met a dog the other day.. the owner had not a clue..
betrothed... well come on.. i dont need to explain that!!
dont we all use quash? and the british press amongst them all...
oh dear.. do i sound awfully victorian in my speech?!
DT1- Location: Dover
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Usual nonsense from the Mail.
'top forgotten words' down the side of the page. Surely the top forgotten words have been...errr...well...forgotten?
I'm not a fan of text speak but I prefer it to the nonsense published by the Daily Mail. Surprised it wasn't concluded by a quote from Richard Little John blaming the decline on asylum seekers or homosexuals.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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gd 2 c u in da house daz.
i must admit to being a fan of "jeeves and wooster" and still watch the re-runs on itv 2.
we must agree to differ what ho?
Brian Dixon
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bfn.
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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I am suspicious of bandwagons and it seems to me thet bashing the 'Mail' is a bandwagon. I believe some people profess to automatically disagree with an idea just because the 'Mail' has printed it, because they think it's de rigeur. I prefer to judge an idea on merit regardless of its source.
Text speak is exactly that, text speak. OK in its context but it deinitely cheapens the language if it seeps beyond that. I am not suggesting that it should be criminlaised in the way that the French have criminlaised the use of certain English words, even if the use of textspeak in certain contexts is something close to a crime.
DT1- Location: Dover
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Exactly Andrew. It is fit for purpose, albeit for strategic or frugal texting!
As I've said, I don't like it but find it wonderful that we can mix our language up. We can even write in English and throw in lovely terms such as 'de rigeur'. We are very lucky, unlike our French friends who would be chastised for such an action.
DT1- Location: Dover
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Just an amusing twist - I have just this second received a text from a good friend who is a published author, an English teacher and absolute pedant when it comes to the written word. She writes "defo, have fun tomoz"
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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An amateur, Shud b 2moz.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
DT1- Location: Dover
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Good point Peter, I barely knew what she meant!
