Why Can't People Talk in Complete Sentences Anymore?

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Or rather type. Am I the last of the people who refuse to use u for you or ur for you're? I can't stand text speak.

It's not as though u saves you that much time. What's the millisecond difference between you and u?

Maybe I'm missing the point. I don't know. Either way, I can't stand it.

The only one I ever use is lol. I'm not sure why that one seems ok to me but it is. lol Laughing

There.

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@Bella Dea,

I think it's a generational thing, Bella.

People over a certain age generally abhor the thought that they may be coming across as some sort of thick knobhead.

People under a certain age tend to revel in being one, or at least revel in pretending to be one by writing in such a way.

Maybe it's a sheep thing. They all tend to herd a lot more nowadays, and don't like to show themselves as being cleverer than the next one. Eventually you end up with the lowest common denominator being applied in most cases.

Maybe I'm just getting old.

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@Bella Dea,

Some of it is phone texting. My not so very smart phone has letters on each of the numbers (no keyboard), so a, b, and c are all on the 1. If I want to type b, I have to hit 1 twice. Not a huge tragedy, of course, but you is typed out as follows - 9555777.

Shorter typing is also a fault of Twitter, where you only get 140 characters to write whatever you want to write.

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Blame the 140 character limit.

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Technology is completely changing written language. You might as well accept the inevitable.

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@Bella Dea,

I text Mo in complete sentences and he just rolls his eyes. Its become kind of a game for us.

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@Bella Dea,

You used ok instead of okay. Naughty naughty, Bella. Wink

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Why do some people think anymore is a suitable replacement for any more?

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@Bella Dea,

I don't know why or

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@McTag,

Are you channeling Fowler, McTag?

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Twitter and text messaging.

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@JTT,

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Are you channeling Fowler, McTag?

No, just McTag's Lexicon of Useful Things.

Funny that, we write anyone, anywhere, anyhow etc but I would NEVER

never never never

write "anymore". "Anytime" maybe I would, if I wasn't paying attention; informal only perhaps.

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@Bella Dea,

Bella Dea wrote:

Or rather type. Am I the last of the people who refuse to use u for you or ur for you're? I can't stand text speak.

It's not as though u saves you that much time. What's the millisecond difference between you and u?

Maybe I'm missing the point. I don't know. Either way, I can't stand it.

The only one I ever use is lol. I'm not sure why that one seems ok to me but it is. lol

There.

I 'm modestly doing the best I can
to lead by example to the complete abandonment
of the old paradime of wasting 2 extra letters on the word: u
or 3 useless letters after the word THO,
or the foolishness of spelling the word enuf as: enough.
The old way does violence against logic and efficiency.

Its NOT just "text speak"; its the RIGHT way to do things.

David

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@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

I text Mo in complete sentences and he just rolls his eyes.
Its become kind of a game for us.

Please give Mo my best wishes.
I bet that he has changed since I met him!

David

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"Ok" is an abbreviation, like Mr. or Mrs. "Ur" is not an abbreviation for anything.

Also, anymore means something different than any more.

Anymore means "I don't do that anymore.". Any more means "I don't want any more cake."

Hence, my usage of the word "anymore" is correct.
<br /> http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/anymore?q=anymore<br />

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@Bella Dea,

Ah, you were writing in American English. Pardon me.

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@Bella Dea,

Bella Dea wrote:

Why Can't People Talk in Complete Sentences Anymore?

Beats me.

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@Bella Dea,

"Ok" is an abbreviation, like Mr. or Mrs. "Ur" is not an abbreviation for anything.

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If Ur is not an abbreviation for anything, Bella, then you wouldn't understand what it means. You obviously do.

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@Thomas,

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@McTag,

No, just McTag's Lexicon of Useful Things.

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Which turned out to be not so useful.

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