Text Speak - Real or Gobbledygook

[OwlHoot]

You have a wander around London 100 years ago and I bet you'll think the majority (not the upper classes with their poncy finishing schools) of people are speaking a different language. ...

Maybe in Lancashire or Yorkshire (Think "Kes"), but London accents wouldn't sound much different only 100 years ago.

If they spoke slowly, you could probably just about understand people 500 years ago in London, apart from a few obsolete words and bizarre slang and cant (lots of Gypsy words ending in "man", like "darkmans" meaning "night" ).

[threaded]

I remember reading about how in some recent war, Korea maybe, some chaps from Newcastle were captured, unfortunately their accents and colloquialisms were too extreme for their Oxford educated interrogators, so they never could make sense of any of the stuff they were telling them.

[DiscoStu]

English language. Bring on the "updations".

Don't forget the upgradations

[HairyArsedBloke]

Don't forget the upgradations

The one that was winding me up the other week was 'return to normalcy'.

[TykeMerc]

I don't want to have to attempt to translate cretinous text language on a board for professionals.

I utterly despise seeing that rubbish in business documentation and emails, the reason it exists there is because people are so lazy on message boards and texts that it carries over into their professional work and makes them look like total morons. As a PM I've had to correct far too many documents to make them fit to present for signoff, I hate having to do it just because the author is too idle to use grown up English.

[cupidstunt]

Most of the things you're whining about originated online in the early Usenet and email days - nothing to do with textspeak.

YHBT, HAND

I've seen this movie. The violent bully has a go at the uber geek and gets pwned.

TYFP and NF FTW!