Stobbut!!

wot ewe onn abowt?

People using text speak in posts, it's creeping and and it can fookin' well creep out again.

methinks it is Kevs time of the month

their wil kum a thyme wen kidz woant bee abel two speke n rite korrecktlea
att orl

Two write mista boB

Concurring wholeheartedly.

Just ignore it.
It's a bit like school Latin...you spend half an hour translating half a sentence only to find you've been 'told' something you'd have been very happy not knowing, ever.

I seem to remember creating a special text-speak forum once where txtspk msgs cud be moved to. Can't have been very successful eh?

No, you seem to have left the door unlocked and they've escaped.

Old farts alert

Errrrr its not like.

Text speak is shit. Foookin horrible. And just lazy.

FFS if you are gonna swear, just fookin swear.

If you dont like text speak then why dont u do that thing where if someones types it then it changes to "im a wanker" when it posts?

Just like with Newell, Goffy or rulesisrules or whatever.

So why don't you use it on the bunker then? Are you frightened the old farts might come and get you?

Young fogey alert!

well I am closer to 30 so its all down hill from here

30.... you are old. Wait till you go to hospital and find your blood types been discontinued.

30.... you are old. Wait till you go to hospital and find your blood types been discontinued. [/quote]


They could always use tomato ketchup, as in Hitchcock et al.
It might calm Compo down a bit if his blood was diluted.

Boils me piss to buggery

Seriously, do schools and polytechnics actually bother teaching the basics of grammar and punctuation anymore?

No, mainly because the majority of teachers are thick.

To be fair, you would expect texters to use a few short-cuts and abbreviations. Just that I can't be bothered to learn them.

They could always use tomato ketchup, as in Hitchcock et al.
It might calm Compo down a bit if his blood was diluted. [/quote]

Didnt Hitchcock use chocolate syrup in psycho not ketchup, the only thing I want in my blood is alcohol oh and oxygen

cough cough

From Collins Dictionary:



BUT...

From Montpoolier to Collins:

Call yourselves a dictionary. In any form of English, the above sentence is bad grammar. It contains two separate statements that have no reason to be spliced together. Also, there should be quotation marks around the spelt words:
"In British English, the spelling 'anymore' is usually considered incorrect; 'any more' is used instead".

I always thought these were quotation marks" " not these' ' which I thought were apostrophes,
(dons tin helmet and awaits onslaught).

Single and double quotes, Mr Raff.
An apostrophe (as in the word it’s) just happens to look the same as a closing single quote ’

Don't worry; I'll keep yer right.

So when is it appropriate to use single quotes.......howay man, finish the explanation.

You use single quotes when you're already inside double quotes - or vice versa!
See, the style dictated by British publishers is single quotes on the outside and doubles on the inside; in the US it's the opposite, which seems more logical to me. Damn Brits!

OK

Anyone who uses text speak on this site will be doused in petrol and set alight in their bed the following night. You have been warned!

ok m8.

Dousing you in petrol would cost at least 400 snodgers ((c)Mutley) at current pump prices.

bastad.

And that was only text speak I could think of.