The pure definiton of an abomination...

by **MartinC** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:19 pm

Styxx wrote:As far as I see it, the only change we need to the English language is that the word "thrice" needs to come back into more regular circulation.

Seriously man, shit like this makes me not want to let my childs (if I ever have any) have mobile phones or watch TV or use the internet until they're at least 15, just to avoid their minds being warped. I used to do text speak until I realised how dumb it was (and how "lol" makes you sound like a 13 year old girl).

I used to work with a girl in a bar who handwrote her CV. It contained several "lol"s. She was hired for her size F tits, and nothing else. She was a dumbass, and I can't believe she got accepted into uni to do maths

Yeah, but to be fair she had size F tits, that's a qualification in itself.

by **MartinC** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:22 pm

Anyone noticed the initialism for the group is SSS? I say we get Short Sharp Shock on the job and make them sue them. That'd shut the cunts up.

by **jonny_boy34** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:31 pm

Styxx wrote:I used to work with a girl in a bar who handwrote her CV. It contained several "lol"s.

MEGALOLZZ!!!""!"!!112132436

I still can't believe it though. I really really can't. If this gets any further I'm going to use terrorism to make sure they put a stop to this nonce-sense.

by **Darkweasel** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:33 pm

I'd act surprised but this is the kind of think I come to expect nowadays.
The dumbing down of life in general.

by **boovidge** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:36 pm

yea, instead of encouraging people to better themselves we just dumb everything down to their level. The fault is not in the language but in the educational system/ students.

by **Styxx** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:45 pm

boovidge wrote:
Styxx wrote:Seriously man, shit like this makes me not want to let my childs

oh the irony

Yep

But did you notice, it's still spelt correctly according to the rules?

by **Von Turbo** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:53 pm

Fuck this simplifed spelling shit. It would go against years of proud English tradition of kicking the shit out of other nations and stealing their words.

by **Styxx** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:27 pm

Exactly!

by **phodg** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:03 pm

Reading that simplified spelling actually makes my eyes hurt. I think it offends the very core of my being. :lol:

by **MartinC** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:24 pm

I have to say, I'm not adversed to language change, but I don't think we should go to such lengths as to get the Government involved in simplifying language. I think the only excuses for a change in language are when we need new lexis to describe a new invention or something, or when dialects have an affect. 'Lol' does not belong to any regional dialect, so it can get to fuck.

by **Resilience Records** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:35 pm

dis iz joks!!

lolz

by **thrashduck** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:44 pm

I think theres a difference between using l33t speak and other garbled speech on the internets and text messages, and bringing into daily life.

JUST IMAGINE THE LOOK ON STEPHEN FRY'S FACE NOW.

by **Styxx** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:04 pm

MartinC wrote:I have to say, I'm not adversed to language change, but I don't think we should go to such lengths as to get the Government involved in simplifying language. I think the only excuses for a change in language are when we need new lexis to describe a new invention or something, or when dialects have an affect. 'Lol' does not belong to any regional dialect, so it can get to fuck.

Yeah, but to be honest it should be a natural progression. That's how it's happened for years, centuries even. I mean, look at place names that have been around for ages. Towcester would have been said as spelt a couple hundred years ago, but not it's pronounced "toaster". As people said it faster and faster it evolved into the word it is today.

by **Herzeleid** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:19 pm

I won't accept idiots being catered to, spell correctly or die.

by **Styxx** on Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:20 pm

Herzeleid wrote:I won't accept idiots being catered to, spell correctly or die.

UK Thrash t-shirts? :lol: