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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: wpclean on June 12, 2010, 01:24:45 am

Title: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: wpclean on June 12, 2010, 01:24:45 am
I cant understand it when posters on here write as if they are texting !

Please help us old ones out and write in English .

Thank you  ;D
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on June 12, 2010, 06:14:29 am
 ;)
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: actualcleaning on June 12, 2010, 06:49:16 am
I cant understand it when posters on here write as if they are texting !

Please help us old ones out and write in English .

Thank you  ;D

It drives me up the wall.Were they not taught at school how to spell properly.... ;D
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Nathanael Jones on June 12, 2010, 07:23:40 am
I cant understand it when posters on here write as if they are texting !

Please help us old ones out and write in English .

Thank you  ;D

It drives me up the wall.Were they not taught at school how to spell properly.... ;D

I can't spell to save my life,.. but there are spell checkers available for every browser these days,....
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Jack Wallace on June 12, 2010, 08:01:26 am
Text speak and other, what you might call "not proper english" is here to stay and will become accepted as correct.
English is and always has been an evolving lanquage.
Shakespear is considered to be one of the greatest ever writers of the english language yet Doesth thou speak olde English?  ;D
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Jack Wallace on June 12, 2010, 08:03:27 am
This might help  ;D


http://funnelideas.org/solution.asp?40-Understanding-text-message-abbreviations#site_focus
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: AuRavelling79 on June 12, 2010, 08:52:40 am
Ah, the olden days of good grammar and spelling:-

When I was flying in the war I would write to my girlfriend thus:-

To my "best gal"!

I say Pippa old thing, had a wizard day today! Took the old kite up to 15 thou', saw a 109 at 4 O'clock, dived and poured lead into her. Jerry was having none of it and got on my tail and I took a round through an oil line.

Well, I did a corkscrew but the old girl was chuffing out oil and I headed for blighty. Came down with a helluva bump and sent ground 'erks a-running. A wizard prang old sausage, but yours truly is in one piece, so you'll be made up about that!

So I'm sat in the mess getting a roasting off the "old man" who tells me I should look after 300mph of Hurri' more carefully. Still, getting a Spit next week so that's bonzer!

Well must go - the lads are piling into the adj's MG to go down the old watering hole - keep the home fire burning old thing! (Hem, hem what eh?)

With "dang and a bing bang spillip" as we used to say in the quad at my alma mater ...

TTFN!






Wodger "handlebars" Malone

Much more understandable than this modern texting lark!  ;D

Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Jack Wallace on June 12, 2010, 08:55:40 am
ROTFL
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: LQQK on June 12, 2010, 09:02:47 am
"not proper english"


I think you'll find it's incorrect english.
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Jack Wallace on June 12, 2010, 09:55:24 am
"not proper english"


I think you'll find it's incorrect english.
I think you will find its evolved into "not proper"  ;D
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Rob.Hall on June 12, 2010, 10:08:17 am
To darn lazy to write or reply to a post in a comprehensible manner.

Lets hope the work they do is not the same......short cut cleaning.

 ttfn.....cs....sus.......iwlgb....oh bo..ks Im at it now!!!!! :-\
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Window Washers on June 12, 2010, 10:48:37 am
To darn lazy to write or reply to a post in a comprehensible manner.

Lets hope the work they do is not the same......short cut cleaning.

 ttfn.....cs....sus.......iwlgb....oh bo..ks Im at it now!!!!! :-\
wat eva  :P
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: John Walker on June 12, 2010, 11:08:03 am

I find it amazing that the dictionary in my mobile has all these abbreviations already in.

No wonder kids think it's 'normal'.

I suppose it's no different to words of my youth such as 'Fab' etc.  It just comes across daft to me when adults start using these text abbreviations.

ttfn
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Paul M on June 12, 2010, 10:19:53 pm
I am not a big fan of text talk. It is a sign of how little time
we are willing to give these days. (awesome for the illiterate)

It reminds me of when that whole Ebonics thing was
trying to get pushed here in America.

I guess black people who have been here for 500 years
needed a different version of English. I figured it out in a
very short time  ;D

Silly

They need a more scientific name for text speak. Maybe
we'll get a bunch of protesters to gather around the White
House and demand it to be a recognized language....

Leave it to the US to lead the way...  ::)
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: LQQK on June 12, 2010, 10:29:08 pm
"not proper english"


I think you'll find it's incorrect english.
I think you will find its evolved into "not proper"  ;D

ODFO  ;D
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: chopsie on June 12, 2010, 10:37:22 pm
I cannot stand it, its everywhere, "LOL" from everyone and xx on the end of text messages....FROM BLOKES, Its all a bit gay for my liking.  Do you remember wayno (something like that!) on here, I gave up trying to work out what he was on about, It was like a foreign language  ::)
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: paul rulton on June 12, 2010, 11:05:39 pm
if this is all u gotta worry about in life m8.... u lucky sod  ;D
LOL, pmsl, lmao  ;D soz m8 coudnt elp me self  ;)
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: LQQK on June 13, 2010, 12:23:19 am
ODFO 

(http://marketmynovel.com/images/Dont-Feed-the-Trolls.png)

 ;D
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: AuRavelling79 on June 13, 2010, 08:38:12 am
I am not a big fan of text talk. It is a sign of how little time
we are willing to give these days. (awesome for the illiterate)

It reminds me of when that whole Ebonics thing was
trying to get pushed here in America.

I guess black people who have been here for 500 years
needed a different version of English. I figured it out in a
very short time   ;D

Silly

They need a more scientific name for text speak. Maybe
we'll get a bunch of protesters to gather around the White
House and demand it to be a recognized language....

Leave it to the US to lead the way...  ::)


Welcome to Cleanitup Paul M;

You think having English spoken in North America for "500 years" would be long enough for folk to learn it? Over here we've had English spoken for over a 1000 years and the general quality of it, both written and spoken, is dire.

 ;D

 
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Window Washers on June 13, 2010, 09:40:34 am
I cannot stand it, its everywhere, "LOL" from everyone and xx on the end of text messages....FROM BLOKES, Its all a bit gay for my liking.  Do you remember wayno (something like that!) on here, I gave up trying to work out what he was on about, It was like a foreign language  ::)
lol I know what you mean  xx
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Elginn on June 13, 2010, 11:55:30 am
Ah, the olden days of good grammar and spelling:-

When I was flying in the war I would write to my girlfriend thus:-

To my "best gal"!

I say Pippa old thing, had a wizard day today! Took the old kite up to 15 thou', saw a 109 at 4 O'clock, dived and poured lead into her. Jerry was having none of it and got on my tail and I took a round through an oil line.

Well, I did a corkscrew but the old girl was chuffing out oil and I headed for blighty. Came down with a helluva bump and sent ground 'erks a-running. A wizard prang old sausage, but yours truly is in one piece, so you'll be made up about that!

So I'm sat in the mess getting a roasting off the "old man" who tells me I should look after 300mph of Hurri' more carefully. Still, getting a Spit next week so that's bonzer!

Well must go - the lads are piling into the adj's MG to go down the old watering hole - keep the home fire burning old thing! (Hem, hem what eh?)

With "dang and a bing bang spillip" as we used to say in the quad at my alma mater ...

TTFN!






Wodger "handlebars" Malone

Much more understandable than this modern texting lark!  ;D


Malc your a nut  ;D
It was like watching an old black and white classic on TV reading that.

Oh and even when I text someone I put the whole word in English.
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: david watts on June 13, 2010, 08:55:45 pm
anybody writes in text; just ignore post thats what i do.
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on June 13, 2010, 09:09:03 pm
 ;D
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: R W C™ on June 13, 2010, 09:16:07 pm
Thats what I do, its ment to be quicker to ring but it takes me longer so I give up.....
Title: Re: Stop talking in text !!!
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on June 13, 2010, 09:37:49 pm
 ;)