Our words r on the chopping block
I didn't want to start hijacking frog's gay thread, so i started a new one...
Last week I was reading about the great london fire, and was looking at a front page article - London Gazette Issue Sept 8, 1666.
(I know, I must have been totally bored)... Anyway, the spelling/wording/grammar was the most interesting part of the paper...I was kind of surprised by how much the English language has changed over the years.
...Do you think that this new clipped writing style used by high school kids today will end up altering the english language so that in the future we are all talk lik diz clipn off da ends of wodz an stuf?
When I receive emails from my little bro I have to read them about 3 times before I finally figure out what he's saying!!!!
Is it only a matter of time before our words face the chopping block for good...and does it matter?
xmp
Pope...Are you alright?
Like yourself, a so called Journalist, you must be an expert in using disinformation and misinterpretation.
You must be quiet sublime expert in tongue twisting THE TRUTH with your articles on your Qatar Journal.
What do you called a Journalist without proper credentials or syndicate?
A foul Parrot.
The Red Pope of Qatar Living
If journo's are typing less, I suppose that means we are saving trees as well...less newspaper to print! So word-clipping is environmentally friendly as well as financially beneficial. Wow, this annoying trend is actually accompanied by quite a few incredible benefits!!! :)
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For a start I cant make it work for me, and for seconds I've received some really 'odd' text messages from people who haven't read what the predicter had decided to write for them!
'walking up the room now' (said a neighbour to me in text) She lives downstairs from me, so I did actually check the staircase before realising she meant 'road'
I'm not fond of texting "short-cut" words... especially english words.I'd rather spend my time texting the whole word & an extra dirham on it, so that I make the other end understand what I mean and therefore no reason for texting back & explain again what you really mean in the first place.
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There are benefits. Journalists are using shorter sentences. Short, punchy sentences add power.
--nigel
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Miss Moneypenny, Cornellian, adey and hashin ... I feel as if I have found a new brotherhood/sisterhood!
I HATE receiving text messages which have been so severely shortened I can barely work out what's being said. I thought I was the only one who felt that way, so it's so good to hear of others who appreciate the "old-fashioned" way of writing!!
Language is a living thing and as the world mixes more I think language will develop, look at Hinglish and the Tagalog English hybrids
Didn't the whole idea get popularized with phone texting, messenger etc etc? ...I think such extreme shortening of words is a fairly recent thing...so maybe with time it will get easier and easier to decipher - as we get more and more used to it... and then the most commonly used clipped words will eventually rule (survival of the fittest type of thing haha) For example, most people say 'wat' for 'what' and 'da' for 'the' etc etc. so 'what' will eventually always just be 'wat' and 'the' will become 'da' ... and i'm so tired i'm not sure if i'm making sense..i should be in bed, LOL
But I do it from time to time. Especially when its a long txt Im writing.
Is it easier to chop off letters? I would find it harder to chop off letters as I write. But do other people actually find it easier to type in that manner? Even if they do, is it fair on their part to give the reader of the message a headache by doing so?
Also you have to marvel the ability of the brain to decipher the text inspite of the the chopping. I am sure that many of you may have read the following sentence, but nevertheless, for the benefit of those who haven't.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
...I think maybe my bro does it in texts to save his precious phone credit lol...and maybe in emails because he's lazy - or else yes, like you say, maybe he's just trying to be too cool for school...i'll have to ask him!
xmp
Personally I think its more effort for the writer and the reader when letters are chopped. SMS used to call for brevity or chopping but now with predicitive spelling, do we really get anything out of it... I think now its just a way to look cool...
It can not effectively express the subtlety of meaning or the rich variety of the language.
I don't go to mythical places with strange men.
-- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
Ekkkkhhh! I hope not! I hate all that clipping! I mean it takes 5 extra seconds to write the word properly...why turn it into gibberish?? Grrrr...
I'm not always right, but I'm never wrong :P - Garfield