Child talk in Sl

What about abbr words like Rez, Prim, TP etc????

Crossing language barriers and the use of color (colour) etc??

Any new form of platform, like the internet, will bring a raft of jargon, new words are being added all the time.... anyone 20 years ago heard of email, webhosts, appletes, pluggins etc?

That would be to simplify it too much...he used slang terms and stuff, but not exactly txt spk. And acronyms do NOT equal txt spk.

Rememebr Shakespeare was 28 years old also

At one point in his life, yes!


@Oryx: Well, "cant" and "wont" also mean something completely different than "can't" and "won't"....
I bet you loved "Eats, shoots and leaves", too! (I always recommend it to my students)

At one point in his life, yes!
I bet you loved "Eats, shoots and leaves", too! (I always recommend it to my students)

I bet you loved "Eats, shoots and leaves", too! (I always recommend it to my students)

I personally hate "cant" and "wont" for "can't" and "won't." Using inappropriate apostrophes where they DON'T belong as well, e.g. "I bought two car's today," drives me bonkers. I understand that many SL users don't speak English as a native language, so give leeway to them, but when someone is a native speaker, there's no reason that they should destroy grammar just to talk to me.

Sorry. /rant off

I hate to even bring this up but has anyone but me noticed the increasing number of people saying things like u for you, 4 for for, r for are, plz for please and so on both in the forums and inworld? These acronyms not only slow down the reading comprehension of English speakers but also may totally baffle a person trying to learn English.

I suppose there may be some adults talking like this but it is child talk as far as I am concerned and totally insensitive to the reader.

Alyx, I'd never heard of this book before but I just went out and ordered it from Amazon.com. Thanks for the recommendation!

Or, wait, should that be...

Alyx, id never herd of this book b4 but i just went out and order'd it from amazon.com. thank's for the recccommmmendation!!!!!

But U and R aren't words.

excatly, they are letters of the alphabet

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

I dislike the vast majority of internet shorthand, but 'ne1' (anyone) makes me twitch in particular.

I tried reading that wad of words, but I had to stop. Made my head hurt. That is the most annoyingly spelled message I've seen. I now wish I had no connection what-so-ever to Cambridge University.

For me its all about usage.

I doubt the chat window in SL can handle a large paragraph, let alone "who really wants to read alot of text in a visual medium", so for length constraints, I can see shortening things here & there.

BUT- if all one types is 'internet/text message shorthand', then yea, u haf problemz.

You could blame this partly on technology, partly on laziness, and partly on the dumbing down of education.

Technology requires us to keep up with it. Therefore we shorten certain words to "speed up" our reading time.

Laziness, because really- who wants to read tons of text on a screen?

Dumbing down of Education- Heh! Go talk to a 16 yr old. I work with 'em & its quite scary what they're taught or not.

I remember back in the day when I used to get booted out of IRC chats for using full complete sentences and punctuation.

Could be worse though! 7h3y c0u|d b3 7yp1n6 1n |337 5p34k!!

1337 5P34K

U JU57 N33D 2 G37 U53D 2 I7.

QFT! = Quoted for truth

asfar as i know it has been around since ICQ's early days , and yes SMS messages did influence it (Atleast in Holland), also there are many quides to chat-shorthand, so one could say it's a special language. (does not matter if you play ie. poker or chess on the net, you will see it anywhere)

When this language slow's down chat, it's most likely because one of the chatter's has little internet chat experience, which again does not say much of their general experience.

Speed reading's the key... didn't think it would work for me as an avid reader who chews every word, but it did. Not that I use it at home (partner uses Voice rather than Chat/IM.... and a tendency to use Voice in the Dune/Frank Herbert version lmao!)

I'll use abbreviations and "txt" conventions if I have to communicate in a hurry and feel sure the other person will understand, but otherwise usually spell everything out. (Exception: When something works well as a rhetorical device. Nothing seems to express extreme amusement or hilarity in response to someone's comment than ZOMGWTFLOLROFLCOPTERBBQ!!! and it is universally understood, in my experience.)

I don't mind such usages, but L33T Speak (or worse, SP33K) needs to be hunted down and its practitioners eliminated with absolute ruthlessness. Absolutely intolerable. D3TH 2 L33T!!

u wnt sex nw?

Speed reading's the key... didn't think it would work for me as an avid reader who chews every word, but it did. Not that I use it at home (partner uses Voice rather than Chat/IM.... and a tendency to use Voice in the Dune/Frank Herbert version lmao!)