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- Kenzan, on 05/02/2008, -4/+52Please, please, please don't even try to legitimize that *****.
- refreshers, on 05/02/2008, -3/+49I'd digg this but atm im gettin txtd by my bff jill
- Soniti, on 05/02/2008, -1/+40No, this will not make it permissible to use on your English papers.
- carve, on 05/02/2008, -1/+35That makes it a pidgin or creole- not a separate language.
It is no more a separate language than using "&" for "and" - Hangly, on 05/02/2008, -2/+29I wrote a paper on that for a linguistics course back in 1994. My professor didn't know what the ***** and gave me a C.
- TitoMB345, on 05/03/2008, -0/+25"form from formal English"
Who else had to read that over again to make sure you got it right? - inactive, on 05/02/2008, -2/+27its not a separate language, just a different way to spell said language.
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -1/+17so does this mean I can put that I am bilingual on my resume?
- lordenlil, on 05/03/2008, -0/+15That's dumb. It's comparable to calling American English and British English different languages. The defining moment when a language becomes a "new" language is when it loses most 'mutual intelligibility' to its parent language. Shorthand and abbreviations found in texts and IM's is by no means not-intelligible to an English speaker.
- trntman, on 05/03/2008, -1/+16Did you meet her on myspace?
- renegadeafk, on 05/03/2008, -1/+16rofl
- inactive, on 05/02/2008, -1/+15...and pig Latin is the future for hipster douches everywhere, Icksnae on the spray tanae.
- inactive, on 05/02/2008, -3/+16zomgwtfbbq
- zephc, on 05/02/2008, -1/+13wtf? stfu!
lulz jk - jmoo1, on 05/03/2008, -2/+14It took an associate professor of English and FOUR undergraduate researchers to study an abbreviated form of communication.
Irony, anyone? - Aeaus, on 05/03/2008, -1/+12*sigh* Next thing we know chavs will become a legitimate "sub-culture" of polite society. After all, there's a set of formal rules and...
- diblasio, on 05/03/2008, -2/+13You sound like a blast to hang out with!
- venicerocco, on 05/03/2008, -0/+9"form from formal" - glaring out from an article about language. Oh the irony
- mastication, on 05/03/2008, -1/+10I heard this is only a language if you are fifteen or younger.
Otherwise it's called "being ***** retarded". - bob3, on 05/03/2008, -0/+8You suck at life.
- Zaleucus, on 05/03/2008, -0/+8Exactly. Even the people I know with a regular keypad and no T9 recognition have no trouble spelling out full words and using correct grammar.
- NikoKun, on 05/03/2008, -0/+7Frankly.. I've never thought of texting as anything close to "standard"... Everyone uses different abbreviations and structures... So how can we classify it as a standardized language.
- nationalist, on 05/03/2008, -0/+7pidgins and creoles are separate languages...
- KFantasy017, on 05/03/2008, -1/+8Ever heard of acronyms and abbreviations?
- nyx210, on 05/03/2008, -1/+7LOL O RLY? WTF ROFLMBAO STFU KK?? THX OK GTG BAI
- Zaleucus, on 05/03/2008, -1/+7Does this mean ebonics is a language too?
- wildbillhick, on 05/03/2008, -0/+6Nor should you send your professor or TA an email with such "language"! When I read your emails, I do not LOL. I just get PO.
- toppgun, on 05/03/2008, -1/+7those four undergrads did it just to put on their resume, its for the experience, not the topic.
- AriaStar, on 05/03/2008, -4/+9ORLY?
- Soniti, on 05/03/2008, -1/+6YOU COULD HAVE BEEN RAPED
IN THE BUTT - jaredcat, on 05/03/2008, -0/+5dugg down for being an article about a new form of English and not including any evidence or even examples in the text.
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -2/+7I don't know anyone who texts like this. Our phones make it easier to let them help us spell out the real words.
- Hangly, on 05/03/2008, -1/+5Languages evolve over time, legitimized or not.
- Hangly, on 05/03/2008, -0/+4Not yet, but I'll wager some of its features will become standard in the next 20-50 years. The acronym and the contraction started out the same way.
- nyx210, on 05/03/2008, -1/+5YA RLY
- kupa, on 05/03/2008, -0/+4thank god I wasn't the only one. I thought I'd gone nuts or something.
- Chebsi, on 05/03/2008, -2/+6Oh so that was you on the other side.
- drafhk, on 05/03/2008, -0/+3If you're 15 or younger, it's still called "being ***** retarded," except in that case it's expected.
- TheCoreh, on 05/03/2008, -1/+4'k.
- x0rcist, on 05/03/2008, -3/+6Wow this is retarded. It's called using less letters to be able to type quicker.
- catalysis, on 05/03/2008, -0/+3Me fail english? That's unpossible!
- YodaJones, on 05/03/2008, -1/+4Researchers = People with too much time on their hands. Let me guess...government funding? And this will help us how?
- JVaux, on 05/03/2008, -0/+3I originally read that as: "Researchers Studying TEXAN as a Separate Language"....
Figured it was about time.... - talonstriker, on 05/03/2008, -1/+4What about l33t$p34k? Does that fall under this also? If it isn't, we need to make sure it is recognized also.
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -0/+3wow this takes me back to about 7 years ago.
Is america just starting to text now or what?
Oh and by the way the Txt language came about because back then you only had 160 characters in a message. then slightly Later you had 320. - enriqueztwb, on 05/03/2008, -0/+3“IM is a separate language form from formal English and has a common set of language features and standards.”
No, no it isn't. - widgetmaker, on 05/03/2008, -0/+3Don't suppose you have a link to it somewhere in the internet, since this article gave next to no real information
- Hangly, on 05/03/2008, -1/+4Oh? And I suppose you have the linguistics background to decide what is and isn't worth studying?
English is going through more changes right now than it has since the great vowel shift over 400 years ago. People are communicating in ways that have never used before in all of human history, and its forcing the language to evolve in very strange and interesting ways.
Laugh all you want about the stupid ways you think people talk and communicate, but texting, "ebonics" (AAVE), wiggers, valley-girl speak, and the California and Chicago vowel shifts are going to have a dramatic effect on the kind of English your grandchildren and great grandchildren will be speaking seventy to a hundred years from now.
I think that's really damn important, personally, and absolutely worthy of study. -
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