I found this blog post last night about how an Irish study concluded that text messaging is to blame for bad spelling. I didn't read it last night, but the post struck me as interesting, so I did a quick post to my Google notebook to come back to today.
However, I did mention it to my wife last night before we went to bed. She knew exactly what I was going to say as soon as I said "I found a blog post about how text messaging...". She finished my sentence with "is the cause of bad spelling". Immediately following that, out of the blue she rattled off something out of a Cingular commercial (to get the full effect, say each letter in the acronyms individually).
Transcript:
[For those of you not leet-speak-savvy, here's the translation: WU = what's up, IDK = I don't know, BFF = best friends forever, TISNF = that is so not fair, OMG = oh my god, INBD = its no big deal, STFU = shut the f$@% up, n00b = someone new to something, actually not an acronym.]
That commercial does illustrate the point of that blog post I linked above though. Its annoying to me to have people talk like that outside of text messaging. I realize many of those acronyms were created because text messages usually have limited space, but when you start going off like that in instant messages, e-mails, web forums and even blog posts, it gets real annoying real fast.
However, I did mention it to my wife last night before we went to bed. She knew exactly what I was going to say as soon as I said "I found a blog post about how text messaging...". She finished my sentence with "is the cause of bad spelling". Immediately following that, out of the blue she rattled off something out of a Cingular commercial (to get the full effect, say each letter in the acronyms individually).
Transcript:
Mother: Beth Anne!She just e-mailed me this morning and said the funniest line in that commercial is "OMG, INBD!" I have yet to see this commercial, but when I get the chance today I'm going to watch it and see what all the fuss is about.
Daughter: WU?
Mother: Your cell phone bill is what's up. All this texting.
Daughter: OMG, INBD.
Mother: It is a big deal. Who are you texting 50 times a day?
Daughter: IDK, my BFF Jill.
Mother: Tell your BFF Jill that I'm taking away your phone.
Daughter: TISNF!
Mother: Me paying this bill, that's what's S.. N.. F.
Voice-over: Now too much texting is no BD. Cingular brings you unlimited texting. Just five dollars more a month.
[For those of you not leet-speak-savvy, here's the translation: WU = what's up, IDK = I don't know, BFF = best friends forever, TISNF = that is so not fair, OMG = oh my god, INBD = its no big deal, STFU = shut the f$@% up, n00b = someone new to something, actually not an acronym.]
That commercial does illustrate the point of that blog post I linked above though. Its annoying to me to have people talk like that outside of text messaging. I realize many of those acronyms were created because text messages usually have limited space, but when you start going off like that in instant messages, e-mails, web forums and even blog posts, it gets real annoying real fast.
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2 comments:
i am so funny!!!!!
I realize many of those acronyms were created because text messages usually have limited space
These acronyms have been around since before text messaging. They've only become more popular because of text messaging. It's the same as saying that the internet was created about 10 years ago, when really it's been around for well over 30 years now.
:)
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