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  • #16
    i write shorthand when i send text messages (txtmsg) but still some stupid kid wrote a paper like that?

    a girl nonetheless....no surprise
    I just don't know anymore.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Charlemagne120
      i write shorthand when i send text messages (txtmsg) but still some stupid kid wrote a paper like that?

      a girl nonetheless....no surprise
      Somebody got dumped recently.
      "You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran

      Eschewing silly games since December 4, 2005

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      • #18
        I'm kind of strange - I write correct English even in sms's. Complete with capital letters and everything.
        I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Charlemagne120
          i write shorthand when i send text messages (txtmsg) but still some stupid kid wrote a paper like that?

          a girl nonetheless....no surprise
          ahhhh yes.....but wasn't it a man who invented it in the first place.....go figure the pot calling the kettle black
          Welcome to earth, my name is Tia and I'll be your tour guide for this trip.
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          • #20
            Try reading old english. That thing isnt english at all if you go back enough.

            Language changes constantly. If it didnt change, we would all be speaking the same language now.

            and Im sure people from the past all had some new way of talking that they were repulsed at.

            Imagine 100 years from now, presidential speech is given in l33t talk... :shudder:
            :-p

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            • #21
              Imagine 100 years from now, presidential speech is given in l33t talk... :shudder:

              "N our new budget r0x0rz..."
              I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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              • #22
                oh, pl33z.

                it'll be

                "N ur nu bud63t r0x0rz my c0x0rz!!!"
                Last edited by Q Classic; March 9, 2003, 23:42.
                B♭3

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                • #23
                  I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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                  • #24
                    Further proof that the Economist has some of the best writing anywhere...

                    txt msgN

                    duz txt msgN mAk U :-) o :-( ?
                    R U wurEd dat d eng lngwij wil bcum cor^ted & unrEdabl, dat kds wont no how 2 spL? olds got ^set rEsntlE wen a 13-yr-old )3 in w scotl& rOt a skul SA in txt. she sed it wz EZer thn writN all d borN lng wrds. it Bgan: “my smmr hols wr a CWOT. B4, we Usd 2go2 NY toC my bro, his GF & thr 3 :- kds FTF. ILNY, it iz a gr8 plc.” d Tcha sed he c% dnt BlEv it, it wz fulla hIrOglifs he c% dnt transl8
                    bt dnt fret. d sAm sorta shrt& n tLegrams o cAbls (remMbR dem?) didnt dstroi eng. kds txt (nOt d nu verb) Ech uthR cuz itz & chEp. 4ling mob fone chRjs & nu typz of mob fones mA mAk vox cmUnik8shn populR agN
                    txtN wil stil survIv, bt az a ritN dialect, jst az spOkn dialex survIvd Tchaz F4tz 2 frash dem outa :- kds. so cheer ^!
                    B♭3

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Skanky Burns
                      I'm kind of strange - I write correct English even in sms's. Complete with capital letters and everything.
                      Hey, I am the same, although I am a bit of a perfectionist...
                      Speaking of Erith:

                      "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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