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I'm 18. I'm in high school. A high school for the GIFTED, actually, and yet half the kids in my school don't know the difference between "their" and "they're", "your"/"you're", "to"/"too", etc. And, well, neither does the rest of teenage America.
What the fuck? What HAPPENED. What the hell is wrong with this country that we can't learn grammatical laws that have been introduced to is in, what, second grade? Has having cell phones permanently put kids in "typin like dis lol" mode?
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Pop culture. People with a tiny bit of confidence telling those with no confidence what is cool and creating massive trends in idiocy.
I'm 25, I've been thinking the same things for years. It only gets worse from here. Just wait until you enter a workforce full of these people.
Honestly, its the baby boomers fault. Half of them grew up scared of communists and obsessed with money, the other half were too busy dropping acid at Woodstock to stop the first. And now we've got an entire generation raised on consumerism, cultural imperialism, and convenience centered thinking.
That's the best I can do without writing you a book.
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actually i do believe cell phones/emails/msn/plus more has a lot of do with it. they pay more attention to the easy way to type rather then the right way. sooner or later you will end up hearing people actually talking like that. i wouldn't be surprised..
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It's the public education system. We have all been dumbed down. Most teachers are complete idiots, thus students are not challenged at all in class. The system makes it so everyone is taught down to the lowest intelligence level in class instead of being challenged to exceed standards. Read "Against School" by John Gatto sometime.
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I feel your pain. Even worse are the weird ways of typing that take even longer.
Like Capitalizing Every Word, Regardless Of Whether It Should Be Or Not.
Orr addingg extrra letterss?
It's not cell phones. It's laziness. A lot of people don't think that they should have to put in the effort to type nicely for their friends and family that they would for, say, their boss. Then again, lack of practice because of this policy leads them to make more errors, often in serious venues.
To take the edge off the pain, though, these are great comics. I've been tempted to print them off and pass them out to my grammatically challenged friends.
Ten words you need to stop misspelling:
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How to use a semi-colon:
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How to use an apostrophe:
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Nah. Cell phones have not permanently placed people in the 'typin like dis lol' mode. Although I can completely appreciate why from the perspective of someone in high school, it looks that way.
Working with intelligent teenagers and young twenty-something’s every day has made me completely confident they CAN stop this behaviour, just as soon as it's the expectation.
People are not completely idiotic. They know there is one way to speak to your friends, and another for your grandparents, and yet another for your boss or a customer. They choose the communication style the thinks suits the situation or they should. If they don’t, sooner or later they will either learn too, or be fired or simply passed over for people whose communication is more suitable.
Leetspeak will never be able to dominate in the world of serious adult communication. It might leak in around the ages, but it will never take over. It’s too vague, too simple to misunderstand and not communicative enough. Not to mention, inherently disrespectful.
This isn’t exactly a new phenomenon anyways. The rise of leetspeak is just a perfect example of analogue behaviour in a digital space. Every generation came up with its own ‘lingo’ that, as that generation aged, got mellowed and a bit of it absorbed into the language, but most of it dies as the intelligent members of that generation grow up and begin to need better and clearer methods of communicating more complex ideas and instructions. Sometimes people throw up their hands and say “Agh! This never happened before!” but that’s a bit narrow-minded I think. It absolutely has happened before that parents hardly understand what their teens are saying (or in this case, typing), but the parts of that communication that are frivolous or counterproductive do fade away in time, and then the next batch of young people come up with something crazy.
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I don't think you can blame it on one perticular thing, but i get what you mean. haha, it's pretty sad, this is true. But i think, from knowing people, that it's just their laziness that keeps them from wanting to be smart, or learning things, they probably do know, they just don't care. Or they don't care enough.
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