2 b'in told tht im nt allwed 2 use txt spk on this site??

[HailStorm]

Im sori I dnt actually speak like that but being a student and a normal 24yr old who admittitly is addicted to her Phone i do lapse and more often than not revert to forgetting to add a letter to make my words complete. I do not deem this as lazy nor ignorant and i dnt feel that my abbreviations are that different from using DS, DH and FIL on here. I have been told that to use such 'txt spk' or to not write my words completley i will be hated on mumsnet. So am i being unreasonable if i forget my stupid letters?? Think bloody not! Ps, am crap at spelling, does mean im thick though does it

PMSL @ the slagging Hailstorm is getting

Plopper- much as I hate to defend her, trying to make something bold by putting * either side doesn't always work - it works for me at home but not at work - so that may have been what she was trying to do.

lol ur all a bunch of twats, i fear for ur childrens future

again - who is that aimed at clarice?

Ermm yes, of course we have to read books, lots of them, with big words and everything!!

Why don't you venture over to the support threads for OU students on here - either in the student parents, or further education sections.

Then you may see how many of your fellow MN'ers study with the OU and manage to get consistently high marks that certain posters in this thread find difficult to believe.

I do apologise Hailstorm, I didn't know the stars made the text bold, if that's what you were trying to do.

poppity take it up with the uni my marks come from hard work

Hailstorm - sadly I have read the entire thread (there's ten minutes of my life I won't get back again) and you said yourself that your lunatic musings were inspired by your having studied stereotypes and prejudice as part of your course.

I think you are a bored attention seeker trying to drum up a little controversy. I would direct you, politely, to the Daily Express talkboard. I think you'd find plenty of likeminds on there.

Oh dear this thread is so pathetic.

I retract my apology.

HailStorm - Do one.

Not half as much as I fear for yours Hailstorm,with an attitude like that.

Hailstorm - when you're trying to communicate with people, and all you have to do it with is the written word, surely using the most nuanced, complex and readable form of language available is both polite, and simple common sense?

Frankly, text speak strikes me as a bit affected. It's like those teenage boys who think they can wear baggy clothes and say "innit" a lot and it means they live in the Bronx. You clearly can use normal English, you know that's the standard way here, but you think your identity is so caught up in text speak you won't use the adult form? Isn't that rather - well, adolescent? It's rather immature to do something you know annoys people, for absolutely no good reason. Why should we all alter how we do things just to accommodate you? What on earth makes you feel so very, very important?

The thing that most amuses me? Decent modern phones have predictive texting. So what's the point? It's no quicker!

But Hailstorm says in the profile she only reads magazines, not books.

To bold a word, surround it with asterisks, so hello will display hello. it didnt work obviously

No you surrounded a sentence.That doesn't generally work

Lady thompson got it i one!

Oh come on. People are judged by their actions. You acted like a twat.

Are you seriously suggesting that people should have overlooked your attitude because they didn't 'know' you?

So people can treat folks how they like and it should be accepted without opinion, on the grounds that they don't know each other.

Seriously?

Have you never heard of 'first impressions'?

Hailstorm - not as much as I fear for yours when you have to write a letter to school for your dc...

Dear Teacher

Ltl J wont b in 2day he is nt vry well i tryed 2 give him some medsi medis calpol bt he woz sick innit. C wot hes like l8r.

to be fair, my dad is 53 years old, and he always uses text speak in text messages!

So it's not for everyone, some people despise it, some people use it for whatever reasons.

My point being, that you don't have to be an illiterate, poorly educated teenager to use text speak!

I was bored!!

rofl at By you on Tue 16-Jun-09 16:59:40
'Do you go to McDonalds university?'

Yes, hope you go a long way with your McBA hons, I'm sure you'll be a star if the empathy and sensitivity you have displayed here shine through

Oh - and that "this was a social experiment!" bullshit is the oldest face-saver in the book, by the way. If I had a quid for every time I've seen someone bleat that to cover themselves online over the past decade, I could buy myself an extremely nice handbag. People doing "social experiments" don't tend to drag friends into it, and nor do they act the way you have. If your imaginary impressive education hasn't covered "confirmation bias" "confounding factors" and "trolling" I suggest you have a little whirl on Google.

CB, I think that's a function of the subjects studied though, I thought we'd established? The OU is well-known for professional development and vocational subjects rather than academic ones, and the marking and standards presumably differ if we're not comparing like with like. That's not an insult to anyone working hard towards an OU degree, but at the same time dangling high marks in front of an English graduate of Oxford, for example, when the person can't string a sentence together, and claiming to thus be their equal or superior in "intellect" is a bit far-fetched.

what does 'ur' mean?

actually - do I even want to know? will it somehow help me in my life ?

ooooo 'ello cordonbleugh...........and you are??????

I never stated it was a social experiment, at all!! serend - thats actually funny

haha actually scrap that - just looked at your profile - I think I know who you are - a smoking partner by any chance