Srsly?

jasmineh7777

I  just got an automated text from Alltell.
"We appreciate U and ur business."
I hate  the pervalence of laziness in communication today. People in my online classes will write entire paragraphs like this.
Am I the only one that misses entire words and punctuation?

JessAndTrav

::raises and waves hand rapidly::

I do! I do! Today I was having to correct a student when they were writing their rough draft for using text-speak.

I text in complete sentences with few abbreviations, such as "BTW" "JK" or "LOL" and I always punctuate.

bbyckes

I also miss cursive handwriting.  My son was never really taught in school.  He types all of his homework.  He has the worst penmanship.  It's really sad - the death of handwriting in general.

danieliza1127

No you are not. 

I had to hide a friend's FB status updates because she does that crap and posts several times a day.  I also defriended a 15 year old who intentially misspelled every word like the kids do these days.  I just couldn't handle it. 

pirategal03

NO!  You're not the only one!  FSIL had me proof-read her college application essay.  It read like a 7 page text message. (ie: "i went 2 ny" instead of "I went to New York.")

I text in full sentences, commas included.  So what if I use more characters, at least people know what I'm trying to say. 

vallyhoo

I find it funny that you didn't spell out seriously for the title of your post. I get what you were trying to do, but still...

laurenclaire1386

Cakes, on the handwriting thing: when I moved away from home for college, my mom and I wrote eachother handwritten letters. I still have them all and they're among my most valued worldly possessions. It's a dying art, letter writing.

bbyckes

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_srsly?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:96cf4314-e35b-4dc3-92cd-536bd73b8b3cPost:3db9615d-aed5-4799-84b9-0f91789e4bf2">Re: Srsly?</a>:
[QUOTE] I text in full sentences, commas included.  So what if I use more characters, at least people know what I'm trying to say. 
Posted by pirategal03[/QUOTE]

This is why I hate texting - I ALWAYS want to spell everything out.  I can't stand the abbreviations.

BecW2be

I saw this post and thought, "FFS, she really can't type out seriously?" Ha.

Text Alltel back immediately with "I appreciate complete words and sentences when receiving communication from a business. UR NT A TXTNG TEEN."

JessAndTrav

The invasion of text/internet lingo into people's daily writings is a reason that I am wanting to start teaching English.

I don't care if they're seniors in HS, I am going to have a Word Wall, and it will have the correct spellings for the words that they don't know how to use or spell.

Because. They're/There/Their. Two/To/Too. Where/Wear. Hear/Here. What. That. And.

Words like that. If they continue to use the wrong spellings or clearly don't know the meanings, I will give them quizzes or something. I'm determined for my students to know how to use the English language properly.

JessAndTrav

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_srsly?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:96cf4314-e35b-4dc3-92cd-536bd73b8b3cPost:29209abf-1722-40e1-8198-819a20fb12ea">Re: Srsly?</a>:
[QUOTE]Cakes, on the handwriting thing: when I moved away from home for college, my mom and I wrote eachother handwritten letters. I still have them all and they're among my most valued worldly possessions. It's a dying art, letter writing.
Posted by laurenclaire1386[/QUOTE]

I'm completely envious.l what a neat thing to have!

jasmineh7777

Yeah Vally, I have a really dorky sense of humor.

bby- I stll write in cursive, and pretty much handwrite everything I can. The computer ends up eating anything I save.

I've gotten text messages from some of the kids I volunteer with. I literally can't decipher most of them. Especially abbreviations of more than 3 or 4 letters.

mocha beans

I can't stand text speak on anything that has a keyboard.  I can give a pass if you're texting on a number keypad, I guess.  That is by far the only reason I never texted until I got an iphone with a keyboard.  I can't stand not using real words and punctuation.

From a corporation no less, I'd be pretty peeved.  I'd text back, "If you would like to continue recieving money from me, you should really use proper English.  KTHXBYE!!1!"

laurenclaire1386

JessandTrav, I'm so glad we did that. It is a really cool thing to hang on to. FI and I did the same thing when we were LD. If you have a friend who lives away and is inclined to letter writing, I highly suggest starting it up. It's always really nice to get something in the mail that's not a bill or junk mail.

smokeybailey

If you are going to call out laziness in communication, click that little ABC button first.  It adds to the weight of your argument.

Pervalence should be prevalence.

jasmineh7777

Thanks Bailey, noted My English professors are dying inside.
I haven't gotten any error messages today, so I won't be pushing my luck.

jasmineh7777

That's what nd means? Good to know. I quit trying to figure those out long ago. My reply is usually, "I don't speak teen."
Since when do 13 year olds get cell phones anyway? I got one when I had a job to pay for it.

cengle

Text writing is one of my biggest pet peeves ever. I have a number keypad for my phone, and I still use complete words and sentences.  It's not that difficult.
I can't believe people actually try to turn in papers using text abbreviations!  That's absurd. It makes me very, very sad for humanity.

BecW2be

My kids still learned cursive. Chloe is learning right now, as a matter of fact. It makes me happy. I handwrite as much as I can as well. It's definitely a dying art.

mocha beans

I can't figure out how anyone could think that any paper or communication of an academic or career related nature could use text speak or internet words.  I could never be able to use & in place of and, I felt like I was committing a writing sin.

More books need to be read, obviously.  I hated being told to read more in school, but obviously I already read a lot and it's obviously needed now.

jasmineh7777

I've found that in my online classes, the expectations are very low.
When I was in highschool, I had an English teacher that would give weekly vocabularly quizzes. We were responsible for about 200 words. (hubris, assonance, etc.) I thought it was annoying, but am grateful for it now. So many students don't know basic literary terms.