Personally, I prefer proper grammar, spelling and well pronounced Queen's English diction - but that's just me... apparently I'm in the minority..
I mean, I make typos as much as the next guy - but this new "nadsat", internet text message speak seems to be dumbing down the population..
whaddup wit dat?
2006-08-21 11:57:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
There's a combination of influences driving the tortured English movement.
First, there's the truly challenged types, whether they are people who don't speak/write English as their native tongue or the ones who are clueless anyway. These people provide the bulk of 'creative' spelling out there.
Then you've got the ones who know better, but use the same pidgin tap-talk they use to send text messages. These folks think it's cute to reduce the language to some sort of number/letter melange that actually takes longer to compose than traditional text.
I don't know where it's headed; soon we may see only newspapers with proper grammar, spelling and usage.
2006-08-21 12:07:22 · answer #1 · answered by nora22000 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I guess it comes in part from the proliferation of txt messaging. To send messages that have to contain 160 characters or less is what started this thing off.
Then - as more foolish parents give these phones to their children they pick it up and just run wild with it. Add to that the spellingeverythingasoneword thing that the internet has given us, the messing with words that multinational companies do to get your attention (or more specifically - the younder generation's), and the play on words that the hip-hop and other teen music culture produces (plus the fact that it is 'cool' to be illiterate - or to pretend to be so that multi-millionaire rap boys can still pretend to be "from the 'hood" in their 12 million dollar pads in Beverly Hills) and the die is set.
Now its kewl 2 send NE messg 2 Ur m8s tht wy.
2006-08-21 12:14:37 · answer #2 · answered by Colin A 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have no clue why people think its cool not to spell. I'm 14 and i just don't understand my peers. I like grammar, spelling, and phonetics.
It most probably explains why I am the only rocker in Miami Florida, and why my best friend is my Mother.
2006-08-21 12:05:47 · answer #3 · answered by Vivi Raymaker 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately even newspapers have now given up. Now that journalists file copy online, the sub-editing grammar guardians no longer rule. Toe-curling homophones now appear in even the so-called "quality" press. The apostrophe is not dead, just perverted and abused - Oh tempora! oh mores! (how can you tell I'm getting old?) But I think txtspk is brilliant, innovative and imaginative
2006-08-21 12:16:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I too believe in good grammar. Sadly some of it is just laziness, though I don't consider it really hard to hit spell check.
The other reason is that younger people do consider it to be cool.
2006-08-21 12:07:13 · answer #5 · answered by lajefa 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well i have no idea and i make mistakes also but i think the whole spelling thing is stupid you can't understand what the heck they are saying
2006-08-21 12:05:07 · answer #6 · answered by kswiss19 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know. I only do it if I'm in a huge rush and it's just a casual conversation. I'm not quite too lazy to hit the extra too buttons to spell "your" correctly.
2006-08-21 12:04:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋