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Please can we have a section for Questions in Text Speak only that have to be answered in Text Speak and can Text Speak be outlawed everywhere else on the site.
This is not meant to be a serious suggestion, but I am sure I am not the only one who can't stand it and it seems that more and more young folks are using it instead of English. It is fine for Mobile's but please not anywhere else - it's just so lazy!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I too find it difficult to follow text speak and even purchased a dictionary to help me understand it, with little success so far.
LOL is one of the only ones I feel confident enough with to use. I think that the use of LOL or smileys {:-) can change the way a message is read. With the addition of either it can be seen that a post is meant purely tongue in cheek and can save misinterpretations. Maybe I find these acceptable because I know what they mean?
The trouble is it has become a new means of communicating and although we may find it more difficult to follow the people that use it may find it quicker and easier. It's a shame that the profanity filter can't identify them and put in the correct words instead.
Yes Fp (that's not text speak is it?) I mentioned this a while ago when there was a posting about bad spelling & punctuation, text speak is much more annoying.
I don't even use it on my mobile & neither do my sons - they're so quick, they can send a perfectly written message in seconds!
I do have to agree with Wraith though about lol & smileys & confess to using them.
Just an example: See the 30th answer on this thread:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Recently/Question73543-3.asp?Page=2
It took me ages to work it out and I bet it took longer to write than if it were in English!!
Hi Fakeplastic (and AB ed.) I am right behind you on this one. Text speak, childish, pathetic repeated questions and complete ignorance of grammar, spelling and punctuation have made a once entertaining and informative site into the mostly irritating place it is today. I am glad to see that unlike me there are regulars on here who have risen above the ignorance and stayed the course. I have not been on here for months and although it seems slightly better now it still leaves a lot to be desired.
Rant over
Trudi