Text Talk

I agree, i'm one of them that hates text talk!

Just put on the laughing smiley! Thats what everyone does! ( i think. )

I too find it extremely annoying. I have brought this up many times as have some other members. It is annoying because if you have never used txt talk it is an impossible language to try and understand.

The whole txt talk genre originated when you were charged by the letter to send messages via a mobile phone. IMHO it has no place on a forum.

Things like LOL, ROFL etc are common forum language and not strictly txt talk. As you say Adele, it does intefere with every7day language and completely destroys any chance of kids being able to spell correctly, talk correctly and properly interact with the world around them. There was a thing the other week on the news where they were talking about schooling in general and they asked 10 kids how they spel 'mystique' and all of them got it wrong. The spelt it mis-teeq as in the talentless singer/group. Surely this culture of txt talk and Americanisation of words such as mom which in English is Mum. No wonder the kids are leaving school iliterate!

Sorry, but I am not an educated person, failed miserably at school was kicked out of college because I was accused of welding un-supervised despite my supervisor had left the room while I was under the car leading to me severely burning myself with the welding torch flame. Despite all this I do still know the proper use of the English language, punctuation and grammar. So, it is not a difficult thing to do.

I still see that nobody is reading the FAQ...it states clearly no text talk or a mod can at thier discression either edit or remove the post....please people, read the FAQ/Forum Rules, it is what it's there for....and if you need a link, then there is one in my sig, click there to go.

I can see your point, but sometimes zero tolerance is key.
I know people are going to hate me for that, but that's the way it is.

You sound like you need to train to be an English teacher young lady!!. 13 weeks off a year, lots of spelling and punctuation to correct. What more could you ask for

Well, like I say Text talk is a no-no...I just wish people would read the FAQ, but hey...guess this will never happen.

Good to see someone try and enforce this though, so good on you dudette!

i dont use it either and my children will not...if i can help it!

If a person is using 'text talk' why not just pm them, referring them to the FAQ and rules section and number 13 on the list. This way they will learn to refrain from its use and read all the rules of the forum.

Only if there was a way to highlight it more. Well there is, and that's to make a new section like TT chat, put it at top of the list and put the rules and FAQ topic in it.

However, I have been gifted with the ability to (most of the time) work out the abbreviations. Although I would never have guessed "lol." Who says laugh out loud anyway.

I hate text talk to.