I don’t want to be a Twit. Please give me some vowels.
Whn Twttr bcm so pplr svrl yrs ago, I prdctd tht it wld ruin the Nglsh lng as we no it. Mi prdctn haz cum tru.
I haven’t read a football magazine since sometime in the mid-1980s. However, since Texas A&M University, my alma mater, has said goodbye to the Big 12 and hello to the Southeast Conference, I bought Phil Steele’s 2012 College Football Preview. It has 344 pages and is stuffed with information. Unfortunately, most of it is unreadable for me.
Here is some of what was written about A&M:
“In HC Mike Sherman’s first season …. McGee was a #4DC …. Ryan Tannehill was the team’s #1 rec …. despite dealing with a leaky O-line …. set several schl records …. the preseason Big 12 OPOY …. Due to TO’s …. I pointed out LY ….”
It is so bad that Mr. Steele includes on the third page a helpful guide to abbreviations:
The funny thing is, if he didn’t spend half the magazine touting how great his magazine is, he’d have room for real English instead of Twitter English. This is just a sign of what’s to come, and I’m not looking forward to it. I really don’t want to be a Twit. Please give me some vowels.
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Posted on August 30, 2012, in SNIPPETS and tagged twitter english. Bookmark the permalink. 24 Comments.
I agree – fewer words, more vowels!
What a complete twt
It’s a newspaper, it should have full English language. Leave the rest for phones and twitter
IOU
Couldn’t agree more! Can’t stand this new “language” but I guess we’ll have to get used to it. I’m sure the children of today will grow up not knowing how to spell anything properly.
Spot on! Notice, I’m including all vowels?
Yeah, but I need some extra ones!……lol
How I agree with you.. I also hate all the abbreviations they use in messaging, I get totally confused..
Too funny buuut … true.
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I deliberately do not use abbreviations. I need all of the clarity I can get plus English is hard enough for our friends in other countries to understand, why widen the gap!
Funny, yet true! Sometimes I do use abbreviations… but not for this remark!
I love the English language. Give me vowels, too.
Actually, vowel lovers should adore the Hawaiian language, which contains only 12 letters (13 if you count the glottal stop) and is a vowel cornucopia, with words such as kaaawa.
We should send all the Twits to Hawaii!………lol
Great idea. That would really knock their consonant-heavy dialog on its okole. lol
Wish there was a LOVE IT button to press! Could not agree more it’s not just sports magazines either. Sigh… How can it so popular to look and sound ignorant?
Yeah, the English language is doomed!!!
I am with you!
Vry fnny!
This is not my kind of thing, I’m happy to write -a- my kind of properly English/Dutch and it looks like Zoey TCC doesn’t like the new language either
Brb….
#frggnanyng #grrr
at the risk of being the resident doomsayer, we run terrible risks when we give up on language…not least of forfeiting our ability to reason and our propensity for deep thought. before twitter, kids were texting like this, and i was on the same soapbox as you – i’m afraid, though, that the tide of the times has overtaken us…we fought so hard as a species to increase literacy rates…funny how unimportant the rights for which we were once willing to die become bothersome and tiresome once we have ready access to them. (voting, anyone?)
Russel, I agree totally. For me, freedom in a natural language is the essence of true communication when one is with the other party in person, not tweeting from the dinner table, picnic or etc. How many people have said social media would be a great benefit for the world, and now 4 to 5 years later, it is destroying the essence of our human fabric [communities] (in so many words, not tweets
)….
Woohoo! Cheers to full words and proper language!
I’ve never used Twitter and I don’t use abbreviations when I text on the phone. It’s just a few sentences each time so it takes just a bit more effort to write the words in full. Actually I don’t even like to text, I prefer to just call and have a spoken conversation
I’m the same way. I still have a phone that was released in 2003. It makes and receives phone calls, which is all I want my phone to do.