to think that this is not punctuation?

[Kveta]

'are u free friday lol'
'want to play today lol hun maybe afternoon lol'
'you're babby is cute wen you home lol'

All genuine examples of comments I've read on facebook this week (on photos/status updates posted by various friends).

Since when did 'lol' become a replacement for '?', '!', and '.'?

kvet can i pont out from your original post that it isnt quite correct for text speak..

'are u free friday lol' ...translates as ...r u free fri lol
'want to play today lol hun maybe afternoon lol'.....wuu2 lol hun mayb arvo lol
'you're babby is cute wen you home lol'...ur bby 2 cute wen u hme lol

i think you associate with half whacks that are nearly there but havent got it quite right

Sorry? Do I know you, Imnotmymum?

I2 L337 0k 0r d032 7H@ M4K3 Y0U iRR47i0N4lLy 4N9rY 700?

lol

you are so right jareth but gonna have fun battling for txt spk having a place in society (rightly or wrongly but it does)

ARGHHHH MY EYES

doormat maybe so! or maybe it's the Essex version of text speak?

smellslike I genuinely do not know what you have just written :o

Is leet ok or does that make you irrationally angry too?

IMO text speak was only ever acceptable with pre-predictive text mobile phones that took an age to write out a word like 'tomorrow', so everybody except me wrote 2moro instead. There was a reason for it.

^^ translation

3 post combo!

www.jayssite.com/stuff/l33t/l33t_translator.html

What type of judgmental individual calls the less well educated "morons"?

Before you start on me I have a Cambridge degree.

Rhino - genital rub!!!

!

Does punctuation include capitalising the first letter of a sentence?
...or a thread title?

(was worried the OP might be getting disappointed at nobody picking apart her post)

kveta well if we are to "assume" that all that use txt spk are uneducated..is one to "assume" that your essex friends still wear white heels and are reknowned for being "thick"

no i dont think so seriously they are awful assumptions..one should never presume until you have lived their life

When I was recruiting new staff some of them applied to me with a covering letter/e-mail using text speak (hardly any 'proper' words at all).

I have always been told we should not discriminate as they may have LDs or something but really surely it doesn't make you write in text speak whatever your disability????????

'Plse find CV attached. Am avail tues, weds 2 come & c u.'

These were mainly young people (16-18 yr old girls) who were straight out of school and probably practising lots of application forms etc.

Text speak to ok for . . . texts whoever you are (intelligent or not) but it annoys me on FB as your status is not really a text and in any other correspondence its totally unacceptable and is really one of my pet hates!

It's not that I wouldn't want to talk to/get to know/hang out with people who use text speak.

The law of averages would suggest that at least some of them are going to be far more fun and warm and interesting than many highly educated people.

I just wouldn't want to read anything they'd written down, anywhere, up to and including shopping lists.

Whats with the trend of young girls poking one finger into their cheek whilst staring at the ceiling? Oh and adding extra letters like, ' Hii bby aree youu comingg outt?'

loopylou the poking thing may be another throwback from a fb "poke"..just a thought

Text speak is only acceptable when texting.

And sometimes even then it's best to get it right

I was looking at my ds FB, out of nosiness as a responsible parent.

Sooo many of the girls post pictures of themselves looking as loopylou6 said, or self-portraits of themselves pouting whilst looking at the mirror with a worried brow. It is very very strange. They really think this is an attractive face to pull.

This gurning competition is always followed by a list of comments, 'Your (sic) so peng/gorgeous', 'no, you are', 'I'm really not, but thanks babe'.

I am so glad this wasn't around when I was a teenager.

no MrsBov you do not know me, but your comments always make me smile particularly on grammar or etiquette and it makes me think are you posh in real life?
Porky so agree my DD is quite normal and intelligent and socially apt but her profile pic is of her taking a photo in a mirror sort of pouting with a worried brow !!!

I'm no different in real life Fortunately or unfortunately, however you care to view the matter.

I thought I'd managed to offend you somewhere, imnot, so am relieved about that at least.

Pouting with a worried brow?