Fixing the language, one person at a time

[andysocial]

I've decided to not deign to answer those who purposely mangle their mother tongue online. No longer will I respond to anyone who asks me, "wat dew u lyke 2 yews 4 dat?" or any other inane crap. Typos are one thing, unfamiliarity with a language is another; purposely misspelling things just to be "kewl" is stupid, moronic, idiotic, and several other synonyms.

So, all you "leet" folks out there - piss off. I'm not going to answer your questions, except perhaps to tell you that you are not speaking any language I recognize. Phbt!

Comments

HEY!!!!!!!

[lilsister73.livejournal.com]

ya meen tha ones who like ta rite like they illiterate or sumin like dat? DAMN I can't do it. You must get alot of it to be able to write that crapola! HEHEHE But you know I always say things like thingy, stuff, and ya know. Does that count? HUH HUH HUH????? :) Here's one....whatever. :)
Doncha jus luv me? LOL How's that?

Re: HEY!!!!!!!

[andysocial]

Go to iconrequests and try to break through the wall of useless verbage there. I've posted about it before, but it bugs me every time.

Folks will use "lyke" instead of "like." I don't get that one at all. If you're going to use slang, at least make the slang word shorter than the real one!

Re: HEY!!!!!!!

[lilsister73.livejournal.com]

LOL
YUP! :) Well about icons.......... I want something differant. hmmmmm........ But I don't know what! HELP ME HELP ME!! :) HAPPY EASTER!

Re: HEY!!!!!!!

[andysocial]

"differant" is not even a word. If you don't know what you want, I'm not really able to help. :-)

I've made some more orphans if something there grabs your eye.

[laruth.livejournal.com]

I find that the English language REALLY degrades in emails....especially work emails! I don't understand why people think that writing an email gives them the excuse to misspell words, leave out punctuation etc.

Anyway, I salute your worthy efforts of helping people with their language usage! ;)

English in email

[andysocial]

I have grown accustomed to the "IRC abbreviations" over the years, such as LOL and BRB. The things I really object to are the "lyke dat" and "ne1 kan hep me" statements. I'm sure these people are capable of spelling things correctly. Most of them are students, and I'm reasonably sure that even public school teachers don't accept papers where alternate words are spelled in an alien manner. :-)

Re: English in email

[ursulasgirl.livejournal.com]

Unless you espouse the argument of Ms. Ball regarding African American Vernacular English. Based on her assertion the following sentence contains not one word of slang: "He be doggin' his homies." The sentence contains, if I recall correctly, the "hesitant be" which is not conjugated. In fact, it never has to be conjugated to be grammatically correct. Also, according to Ball, "dog" may be used as a verb simply because that's accurate given the vernacular.

Of course, my question remains, if she argues that this is correct language use for an African American inner-city youth, what about all of those Anglo American youngsters following suit. Trendy? Vernacular? Or?

What says you?
I know where I stand....

Re: English in email

[andysocial]

I find a person of any race that uses tortured, non-standard, language to be using incorrect verbage.

I think the arguments claiming Ebonics to be a valid linguistic choice specious at best. If Ebonics (or AAVE if we're to be PC) were truly a natural outgrowth of the African languages of their forefathers, why is it not in universal use across all African descendents? Listen to African British, for example. They sound British. They don't use the bizarre phrasing that is common among the Ebonics set.

As for the kids online who feel the need to SpElL EvErEe TiNg rOnG, well, they are just trying to be Kewl without having any idea how stupid (not stoopid) they appear. Seriously, it takes so much extra time to type things incorrectly, why not just use correct vocabulary and spelling in the first place?

Ah, well. I was actually taken to task for telling someone that I didn't speak their broken language last week. Surprisingly, the person I rebuked came back with a perfectly understandable re-statement of the original query. They know how to speak correctly, so why do it wrong on purpose? Beats me.

[rillifane.livejournal.com]

The current generation contains a high proportion of fools. They constantly seek to distinquish themselves but lack any merit. Their music sucks. The best they can do with fashion is copying the styles of ghetto riff raff. They lack any knowledge of history, politics or economics. Their idea of art is Japanese cartoons. They don't have an idea in their empty little heads that wasn't put their by some puerile product of an "Education" department.

So the deliberate misuse of language is the best they can do.

[ex-enygma701.livejournal.com]

Not all of us are eedjits. :oNot all of us are eedjits. :oÞ

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[rillifane.livejournal.com]

Present company excepted of course.

*grins*

[andysocial]

Every generation is characterized in similar fashion by the established generation. I find the deliberate misuse of the language to be a peculiar thing, though. All that extra effort just to sound illiterate.

We love you......

[ucf69boy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your help.... you rock on all the icons you have and will continue (heheehheeh) to do for me....