Why is it so cool to sound like you never went to school? Why is it that people cannot spell out whole words here on the internet or they change a couple of letters like cool to "kewl" for example? Why can we not at least sound like an educated people?
2006-08-15 03:38:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
We also seem to have a very hard time spelling words correctly, even with spell check on every comp. program anymore. When did it become cool to look and sound stupid, or am I missing something?
2006-08-15 03:47:54 · update #1
My bad on elegance, thanks for pointing that out. Honest mistake. Still does not make being and or sounding stupid cool.
2006-08-15 03:50:20 · update #2
I'm not talking about profanity. It has, is, and will always be a part of language. They are also good descriptive words when used well.
2006-08-15 03:55:20 · update #3
I will probably not be a popular person for saying this, but it started back with the idea that if we tell a child they got something wrong, then it will damage their self-esteem, so we have to be tolerant of their "creative" spelling, because maybe this is their way of expressing their individuality, and we mustn't do anything to quash this independent streak. I hope the sarcasm was dribbling and oozing from that sentence the way I hoped it would.
And once spell-checkers became really reliable, there was no need for a student to learn an inherent awareness of correct spelling, because the computer would catch it, and suggest the correct spelling for them, as long as they got it pretty close. I admit to even using this feature in high school when I wanted to use the word 'segue' in a paper, but had never seen it written. I spelled it the best I could, and fiddled with the spelling a few times until it gave me what I was hoping for.
Combine those ideas with the rise of faster and easier modes of "written communication", and you get things like:
1'm a kewl d00d. l8r loozr my bf h8s lin-z & hay-lee
(Translations: "I'm cool." "Later, loser." & "My boyfriend hates Lindsay and Haylie. (Lohan and Duff)"
2006-08-15 03:54:35 · answer #1 · answered by jmskinny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever since I have been on Yahoo Ans., I have wondered about it. Some people don't even seem to have understood the question they are answering. I think, it should be really bad level of language proficiency and not that the people are just acting uneducated. Not so many people.
May be governments should wake up and do something about it.
2006-08-15 03:48:06 · answer #2 · answered by skr 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
INTERNET HAS ITS OWN LANGUAGE....AND ALL THE DUDES AND DUDETTES PREFER JOE COOL STUFF.....PHUCK OR THE USUAL FORM HAS BEEN THE CHOSEN BROAD SPECTRUM DESCRIPTIVE TERM ..AND EVEN COLLEGE TERM PAPERS GET AN A + CONTAINING WHAT WE USED TO CALL PROFANITY.....ITS A ....IF YOU CANT BEAT EM JOIN EM WORLD....
2006-08-15 03:47:20 · answer #3 · answered by flowerspirit2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is elegance! Presumably this one is down to the invention of the text message?!
2006-08-15 03:43:49 · answer #4 · answered by madfairy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Odd, isn't it. Some people don't even know how to spell "elegance".
2006-08-15 03:44:02 · answer #5 · answered by meerkat 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
like holy crap dude you are the totally smart guy ever. You dont even need to like ask a question... gosh man like be kewl.
MEERKAT GOOD ONE LMAO
2006-08-15 03:44:05 · answer #6 · answered by Grin Reeper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG, I hate that!!!! Seriously... IM abbreviations, ebonics, etc. grate on my nerves.
2006-08-15 03:43:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋