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OMG, when did we start talking like txt msgs?
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Posted on 02/09/2011 8:35:25 AM PST by MNDude
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:35:27 AM PST
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MNDude
To: MNDude
“OMG, when did we start talking like txt msgs?”
Wild guess: when we started texting.
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:36:32 AM PST
by
Tublecane
To: MNDude
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:38:20 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: MNDude
Sarah Palin "used" it, but she was making fun of Obama's "Win the Future" slogan (WtF), playing on the general meaning of that acronym be calling his speech a "WTF" moment. Yes, it was a bit "salty", but it wasn't suggesting that it's something Sarah would use in normal conservation.
To: Tublecane
Laziness is at the root of all changes in language.
To: PetroniusMaximus
Almost in every business meeting our staff has I ask people to write in complete sentences, it appears to be a lost form.
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:41:14 AM PST
by
Jolla
To: MNDude
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:41:29 AM PST
by
annieokie
To: MNDude
you just have to adapt. I let my kids know when I am speaking in ALL CAPS!
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:43:02 AM PST
by
LearnsFromMistakes
(Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
To: PetroniusMaximus
I think some of the devolution in culture actually takes a lot more energy than being normal.
Example: Wearing pants down to your knees means you’ll have to walk around like a penguin all day to keep your pants up, as well as constantly pulling them up. I don’t get it.
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:44:14 AM PST
by
MNDude
To: PetroniusMaximus
“Laziness is at the root of all changes in language.”
Bingo! I detest the butchering of the English language.
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:44:31 AM PST
by
caver
(Obama: Home of the Whopper)
To: MNDude
That was Barack Obama’s WTF moment. Sarah just pointed it out—and probably killed (if you’ll pardon the metaphor) Obama’s plans to introduce a spiffy new phrase to characterize his regime, in the tradition of the New Deal or the Great Society.
I suspect that Win the Future is now defunct.
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:46:44 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Jolla
I twice asked my wife’s niece to quit emailing me in texting style (I disabled real texting apps) and she completely ignored the requests. I don’t even (attempt to) read them or even open them now. I guess the kids don’t really care if anyone reads their messages or not. Just send out stupid tweets and go back to MTV on the iPhone.
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:48:11 AM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
To: Tublecane
OMG,
when did we start talking like txt msgs?
Ysrdy
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:49:10 AM PST
by
MindBender26
(Fighting the "con" in Conservatism on FR since 1998.)
To: MNDude
I’ve believed for some time this was going to ultimately destroy the English language
To: MNDude
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:51:29 AM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: caver
Bingo! I detest the butchering of the English language.I'm sure that someone from the 1880s would feel exactly the same way about your use of the language. I believe 'butchery' would have been the prefered form.
/johnny
To: PetroniusMaximus
Correct...this started ages ago in internet gaming...called “L33T” speak...
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:53:36 AM PST
by
Crim
(The Obama Doctrine : A doctrine based on complete ignorance,applied with extreme incompetence..)
To: MNDude
About the time we started keeping up with hugh, series news whilst in the shower.
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:54:45 AM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(Conservative States of America has a nice ring to it.)
To: MNDude
I must be living in a cocoon. We have two teenage sons, both of whom text. I’ve never heard them or their friends talk in ‘text’. They write it, which saves them keystrokes, but they don’t say it.
To: MNDude
But before you judge, note that former VP candidate Sarah Palin just used that one in a TV interview. And CNN's Anderson Cooper used it on his show the other night.
OMG like when did events on TV change the standards by which we should judge?
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