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[Mathijs]

I am, if we spread the campaign worldwide. English isn't my mother tongue, you see.

[Allathar]

Same here.

Even though I sometimes also use abbreviations, I usually type in whole sentences, so I won't look like a total moron. It also works the other way around though, you can intimidate the masses with a low iq by writing with good grammar and a good style. Like in 'wow, the guy is really smart... he uses difficult words and good grammar, and the sentences are perfectly written! what he's writing must be totally true!', while in reality I'm writing total bullshit.

Now that I think about it, that's kind of the power of the written word. You can use it in politics or in the media with sinister ends. It's not so much as what's written, but more how it's written.

[Puppeteer]

"lol" is overused, just like smileys.

God, I hate it when people use 'lol' mid-conversation. And smileys.
As long as one uses Standard English, perfect punctuation, witty syntax and flawless use of the subjunctive, I'm fine.

American Translation: Make sense, after that I don't care.

[Pasidon]

I can understand a smiley or two since we can't fully express the tone we're trying to make with just typed words. But if you say "lol", then I can assume you just abbreviated something completely ridiculous and insulting. In that case, I should have the authority to warn anyone who uses it.

[segwayrulz]

lol

[Bart]

Did you do that on purpose?

[segwayrulz]

yes. yes I did

[Bereneth Túrien]

All in favor of Pasidon warning seg?

[Allathar]

And opposed?

(for the record: yes, he ought to get a warn for that, imo)

[olli]

Oh for fuck’s sake...stop being ridiculous. Grow up.

[Mathijs]

I'm for warning Pasidon. For no good reason, like the old days.

[Beowulf]

I'm for warning Pasidon. For no good reason, like the old days.

This is something we can all agree on.

And I'm against warning Seg. He didn't actually do anything wrong; though he did successfully troll a few of you.

[Ash]

And I'm sure it takes longer to write badly than well.

Shouldn't that be "write poorly"

Either is not wrong.

"lol" is overused, just like smileys.

I admit I'm bad for using the smiley, and lol, especially on MSN, but on here I tend to avoid.

As a linguist, I am forced to concede that the most recent evolutions of the English language have led us down an extremely lazy path. These days new words are almost all portmanteaus and abbreviations. It just seems to be the direction in which our mother tongue is headed, and we are powerless to stop it, except through a brutal and merciless campaign of unmitigated slaughter. Who's with me?

Me!

I personally reckon netspeak will become its own language one day, and the rest of us will just go back to using English. That said, I'm also looking forward to the day that the United States as a nation learns to fucking spell. Even the ones who spell most words properly still fuck up words that end 'our' or 'ise'.

[Hostile]

Maybe you should stop whining. Americans spell using "ize" instead of "ise." Do you know why? Because phonetically it's pronounced Rea-liZe not Rea- LiCe.

A hard Z sound not a soft S sound.

And what's the point of using letters that aren't needed. Why spell it Armour? Armor does the same job with less letters. Save the environment. Use green text...

[Beowulf]

Maybe you should stop whining. Americans spell using "ize" instead of "ise." Do you know why? Because phonetically it's pronounced Rea-liZe not Rea- LiCe.

A hard Z sound not a soft S sound.

And what's the point of using letters that aren't needed. Why spell it Armour? Armor does the same job with less letters. Save the environment. Use green text...

Thank you, good sir. I laughed heartily at this.

[Ash]

Maybe you should stop whining. Americans spell using "ize" instead of "ise." Do you know why? Because phonetically it's pronounced Rea-liZe not Rea- LiCe.

A hard Z sound not a soft S sound.

And what's the point of using letters that aren't needed. Why spell it Armour? Armor does the same job with less letters.

It's our language. We get to say how it's spelled. And pronounced, for that matter. And while we're at it, we get to make the words up, too. Aluminium. Nappy (instead of 'diaper'). Sulphur. Bonnet (instead of 'hood'), Boot (instead of 'trunk'). Go make your own fucking language instead of ruining ours.

And if we're talking about knocking letters off words or writing as it's pronounced, I don't see you dropping the K off knife, or the U from source.

If you're going to be American and lazy (heh, as if the latter is not redundant after having said the former...), at least be consistent with it. Or couldn't you be arsed to do that, either?

P.S: Sardonicity isn't really your strong suit, is it?

[Ring o' Fate]

Here is why we took your language:
YOU BRITS MADE AMERICA.
You expect us to not speak and write the language we were BORN with? Holy shit man. And the little tiny differences are just showing we are different from British. Not like we are KILLING THE GODDAMN LANGUAGE!!!

Edited by Ring o' Fate, 01 October 2009 - 09:04 PM.

[Beowulf]

I maintain that all Americans should continue to "degrade" English solely to piss off Ash. Who's with me?

[Ring o' Fate]

Agreed!

[Ash]

Not like we are KILLING THE GODDAMN LANGUAGE!!!

Yes you are. I entirely blame the Americans for netspeak.