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do you think text speak is creative? - REDPOINTESHOE - 05-10-2014 01:03 PM
Please answer I need help and different opinions!
- Sonia - 05-10-2014 01:17 PM
I don't get what you mean by "text speak" !
- Nicole - 05-10-2014 01:18 PM
No, it's for lazy f*cks that cant be bothered to type properly
- Goerge - 05-10-2014 01:29 PM
Yeah I do in a way because it was pretty smart to think of. But I think as a teen I use it because I am to lazy to type out the hole thing, but I did notice while using it my laguage skills dropped and I kept saying like and could not have proper sentences and my spelling now is terrible so yeah, hope I helped, cya and gl
(see ya and good luck)
- ? - 05-10-2014 01:32 PM
It's for thickos who can't even spell their own name correctly...
Goerge... George
To lazy... Too lazy
Hole...Whole
Laguage... Language
- Necro - 05-10-2014 01:37 PM
Creative? No.
chat speak is essentially just a complex system concerned with abbreviating words. Interestingly, it shouldn't exist nowadays. back in the 1980's when character spaces were limited (160 characters), people had to come up with a more efficient system, and thus text speak was born.
Today, however, we generally do not have a short character limit (except twitter and a few others), so there is really no excuse to write incorrectly.
I've researched this extensively in Spanish, and most people claim that they use chat speak to write quicker, but in reality you only save milliseconds of your time.
Chat speak isn't creative, but it is interesting. If chat speak stil continues to be used, it may influence directly any language, as we speak it. Have you noticed how people actually verbalise: LOL and OMG? Perhaps, one day, if the habit continues, people will start to pronounce words differently, or with more abbreviations.
As Heraclitus once said: Nothing is permanent, everything flows, The same principle applies to language, it is always in a contineous state of change.
- Joe - 05-10-2014 01:44 PM
no.