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Or I am being an fuddy duddy...LOL

Your gripes please :))

Text speak.

my gripe is my other half always says "bless you" after sneezing him self!

WHY BLESS ME? HE SNEEZED

No begin to assume about it Dorothy. Some already assume it is the way to spell.

and what is gr8 all about (great) the youngsters of today don't stand a chance :((

getting has/as mixed up

***ARRggghhhh**

Their is not spelt there.....lol

love text talk being dyslexic it makes my life so much better lol
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suzy its the youngsters who thought it up lol
i think its g8 m8 lol
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I can understand using it on a phone as you only have a certain amount of characters to use. But I find it a bit of a lazy thing to use if you have no problems with reading or spelling generally. (Obviously people do have problems like Dyslexia but they strive to overcome them.)
And I can't understand when they use stuff like KK instead of OK. Same amount of letters but my daughter says it's easier as you don't have to change keys!!! So that sort of text speak is laziness. imho.

its keeping up with the times lol
i write as i speak and ppl don't understand it and they bang on about how illiterate i am lol
so when i see others chatting text speak i can relate tis good lol.
Sally what is imao ????
pmsl
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imho. My lazy way of saying 'in my humble opinion'. ;)

what really irritates me is


writing a email to a work colleague and not being able to think of an appropriate alternative to lol

In digital spy forums, the following is included in the posting tips:

- To avoid misunderstandings, please don't use 'txt spk' and try to ensure your post is relatively typo-free.

Um... youngsters didn't think it up. They might think they invented it but it actually started with those that are now in their late twenties early thirties...not exactly youngsters LOL. However, the younger generation do seem to think that it's the correct way to spell. Must make an English Teacher's life hell.

lol sorry sally my post was ment to say suzy
wmsl *goes red)
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i shall edit

summer
mobiles have been out a long time lol
those 20 year olds was kids then lol
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omg my keys are playing tricks on me pmsl
need new specs me duz

Yeah, then they were, but they're not now. The post made it sound like it was the yougsters of today who had invented it. LOL. We were all young once.

lol well it is youngters of today lol just like it was youngsters of yesterday .
and im still young lol **shush**

A Few Hints On Pronunciation.


I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but oh not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh, and through,
Well done! And now you wish perhaps
To learn of these familiar traps.


Beware of heard, a dreadful word,
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; it's said like bed not bead.
For goodness sake don't call it deed.
Watch out for meat and great and threat,
They rhyme with suite and straight and dept.


A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother or broth in brother.
And hear is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose,
Just look them up----and goose and choose.


And cork and front and word and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go and thwart and cart,
Come, come I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive,
I'd mastered it when I was five.