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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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To: MNDude
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:57:13 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Ebonics? Pidgin English?.....
To: MNDude
OMGLOLWTFBBQ!!!!!!!!1111one
;)
To: cripplecreek
To: caver
One could argue that much of the English Language is a result of the butchering of other languages.
To: annieokie
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posted on
02/09/2011 8:59:27 AM PST
by
Waco
(From Seward to Sara)
To: Cicero
“I suspect that Win the Future is now defunct.”
Maybe now Obama will start an organization calles Save The Future United.
To: MNDude
I thought ILY meant “i like yogurt”.
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posted on
02/09/2011 9:00:49 AM PST
by
freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
To: MNDude
I think some of the devolution in culture actually takes a lot more energy than being normal.
ever talk to a welfare momma? eventually you'll hear that they often put more work into not working than they would if they had a normal job.
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posted on
02/09/2011 9:01:52 AM PST
by
absolootezer0
(2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
To: AFreeBird
One could argue that much of the English Language is a result of the butchering of other languages.A better argument is that every army that ever conquered Britain integrated their own vocabulary into what was already there. It wasn't an act of butchering by the natives.
English is a mongrel language, but it became so through acts of violence.
To: PetroniusMaximus
“Laziness is at the root of all changes in language.”
Not true:
“WTF?” — Five syllables
“What The F***?” — Three syllables
“Huh?” — One
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posted on
02/09/2011 9:04:59 AM PST
by
Hunton Peck
(I am required to warn you that this metaphor is registered as a deadly weapon in 32 states.)
To: MNDude
Back in the late 70’s I was big into CB radio. I would always get a chuckle when some of the people I would meet would talk in the same slang as they did on the air - “Got that, good buddy?” or “that’s a big 10-4.”
I guess txt talking is the successor to that.
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posted on
02/09/2011 9:05:03 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
To: MNDude
To: Think free or die
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. Exactly, we expect our grandchildren to speak properly, they're not allowed to sit there and text while visiting, they are to DO things and visit, to MAKE things with their hands instead of mindless texting and computer nonsense.
I have a shop and my wife gets them sewing things for their parents on special occasions, it has worked out well and has been fun.
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posted on
02/09/2011 9:05:32 AM PST
by
brushcop
(CW4 Matthew Lourey CW2 Joshua Scott/ Kiowa pilots KIA Iraq '05. Thank you for our son's life.)
To: MNDude
IDK but we’ve had FUBAR far longer than txtg.
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posted on
02/09/2011 9:07:25 AM PST
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: MNDude
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posted on
02/09/2011 9:08:07 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(TOTUS knows how to give a speech. Obama knows how to read.)
To: MindBender26
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posted on
02/09/2011 9:08:17 AM PST
by
sauropod
(The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
To: brushcop
...to MAKE things with their hands instead of mindless texting and computer nonsense. I mean this in no confrontational way, but I found this comment ironic and funny.
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posted on
02/09/2011 9:09:14 AM PST
by
justice14
("stand up defend or lay down and die")
To: Jolla
“I ask people to write in complete sentences, it appears to be a lost form.”
For sure!
;)
To: MNDude
Some of us used some of the misnamed “text message” abbreviations 20-30 years ago on email, usenet, and BBS.
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posted on
02/09/2011 9:10:57 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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