Cna yuo raed tihs?

Started by George, July 25, 2007, 06:52:34 PM

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Sean

This trash and filth is another way of justifying bad English and poor means of self-expression. Not only can most people not think, choose vocabulary or have a grasp of grammar but they can't type- and it's all increasingly justified, as the official tone of society is dragged democratically down to the repulsive widest tier at its base.

Mozart

Quote from: Sean on July 25, 2007, 11:50:38 PM
This trash and filth is another way of justifying bad English and poor means of self-expression. Not only can most people not think, choose vocabulary or have a grasp of grammar but they can't type- and it's all increasingly justified, as the official tone of society is dragged democratically down to the repulsive widest tier at its base.

Nothing new I mean at least most people can read and write these days. Grammar can kiss my ass. If I speak and people understand (if it is possible for 2 people to understand each other) thats all that matters.

Sean

Quote from: Mozart on July 26, 2007, 12:01:28 AM
Nothing new I mean at least most people can read and write these days. Grammar can kiss my ass. If I speak and people understand (if it is possible for 2 people to understand each other) thats all that matters.

English grammar can be very flexible, and you don't even have to use formal sentences to write or speak to the highest communicative standards: that isn't what I'm saying- I'm not some stuffy nostalgic academic. I'm saying that if you're too thick and mindless to be able to spell simple words and try to substitute your own silly pseudo language you should keep it to yourself and not alter official culture with it- which is what's happening.

'u r 4 me' for instance is far harder to work out than 'You are for me', because we don't look at the number of letters in words and have to work harder with longer words- we already use words as symbols, instantly recognizing 'you' as meaning you. The language already works extremely well, and is very good in terms of its inherent simplicity yet expressive potential, and ability to expand indefinitely.

If you want to ditch grammar you're shutting your brain down because you can't express yourself- unless it was never going to be opened up to much in the first place of course, which is the case with many people. But I don't want to read that simplistic garbage they spew out like grunting animals.

Mozart

Fo' shizzle my nizzle  ;D

Ehh I agree with you a bit, but I also feel language is a poor form of expression since two people have way different experiences. I love you, i <3 you they are both  vague and ambiguous as each other because what does love mean?




Bonehelm

Taht Is Aewosme!!! Now yuo jsut need to laern leet seapk.

Mozart

Quote from: Bonehelm on July 26, 2007, 02:02:13 AM
Taht Is Aewosme!!! Now yuo jsut need to laern leet seapk.

Pwnd!

маразм1


Ten thumbs

Seems like dogo fun to me but not helpful to the serious reader who needs to scan whole paragraphs at once. The problem with bad grammar is that too many people say and write things that are not at all what they meant. They then assume that they are understood and can't understand it when they aren't.
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.