Language on the forum *Reminder*

[DeweyTheHammy]

I spell everything correctly. (most of the time haha). I even do it when I'm texting. The only abbreviations I use are lol and lmfao.

I HATE this:

hey wat up im lik so ttly bored right now letz hang wat r u doing?

me: GAHHHHH ADLFJHD.JKBG,TG , R,

[RachK]

Originally Posted by Vectis Hamstery

Thanks, Souffle. 'lol' drives me batty and the rest of the text speak makes things incomprehensible to me - and English is my fisrt language too. I'm all for any thing to make communication clearer here.
Now I feel really old

Join the club. I always write in full English too. We must be a pair of dinosaurs. In fact I would find it hard to even try to write in text talk. I don't even own a mobile phone.

[SarahJ]

Im guilty of the text talk, will try and stop it! its a bad habbit ive got in to so it may slip through every now and then so ill say sorry now incase it does!

[Fritzi]

I think it's funny how abbreviating words is called text talk now. When I text, I use proper english and punctuation. When I was in middle school, text talk was called 'chat speak.' Now chat speak means something completely different. I don't ever use 'lol,' I use 'haha.' Think about it, if everyone was really laughing out loud when they said lol, I think the world would be a much happier place.

[Fidgetthefirst]

Originally Posted by DeweyTheHammy

I spell everything correctly. (most of the time haha). I even do it when I'm texting. The only abbreviations I use are lol and lmfao.

I HATE this:

hey wat up im lik so ttly bored right now letz hang wat r u doing?

me: GAHHHHH ADLFJHD.JKBG,TG , R,

Same here! And all my friends call me posh because of it! Well i apologise that i know how to spell correctly!

[suga]

Originally Posted by souffle

Could I please remind members to watch their language on the forum. I have spent a lot of time lately editing posts to remove mildly offensive words and swear words.
I know these are creeping into our launguage these days but this is a family forum and we do not want younger members to read these things. Abbreviated letters for swearing is also not acceptable. We all know what these mean and say them in our heads so don't use them.
Please also avoid the overuse of text talk such as LOL. One LOL per post is quite enough and try and remember that some of our members do not have English as a first language so too much text talk is impossible for them to understand.
Thank you

Just a reminder to everyone about text talk and swear words/language.

Its been noticed recently that text talk and some swear words are creeping back in again. Once more the moderating team seem to be spending time trying to amend posts to remove swear words or re-jig the post to help it to read a little easier.

Can you check your posts before you post to make it a little easier for all our members.

thanks suga

[anorak]

I don't even understand text speak! I am too old. I used LOL once I think!

[mangoandmimi]

I only really use lol the rest is just silly :P

[SnickersTheFirst]

Originally Posted by mangoandmimi

I only really use lol the rest is just silly :P

Well, you do love to use 'lol'. haha

[mangoandmimi]

haha yeah - i'l cut down -.-