question for those that are down wiv da kidz

If you have to have it explained, you would never understand (and probably wouldn't want to) ?

Mainly it's added to show excitement...eg:

"Reeeeeeeeeeeally happy"

There is no hard or fast rule to letter-adding, but I am a culprit. ?

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no no, i get that, i do it too, its the random extra sssssss at the start or end of a non doing word that is baffling me ?

But it's not "txt speak," it's more internet speak.

(I don't use "txt speak" as it irritates the tits off me.)

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Awh gawd, no idea then....sssssssssssssorry!

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What's - My 16 yr old cousin puts this in FB replies

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iuqwhduqwegf

Here is an example from facebook

ssstopp maoning lol, at least yhu ent gott summm concrete crap stuck tooo ya

is it so the grown ups can not read their messages? ?

I don't think it's hyperbole, I think it's more teen stupidness. My boy does it on FB and I have sit on my fingers so as not to correct him and his friends ?

I have no idea - defo not down wid da kidz.

I hate it too. Just type normally, what plonkers.

I have a relative who does this. Gems from this week's FB statuses are:

Pinkk Hairr!!!! :] x.x.x

Iss lookinn 4ward to bowling 2morra wif her maytiiez x.x.x.x

Txt spk on its own was bad enough.

I'm not really a grown-up...but even I can't understand that!

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Du u men lyk wen mii sil sends mee txts lyk dis?

(translated: do you mean like when my SIL sends me text messages like this?)

The one i don't get at the moment is when my sister both says AND texts me 'ceeeeeebz' i had to ask what that meant. Apparently it is a 'shortened' version of 'CBA' shortened my arse, i think theyre just being annoying for the sake of it. I don't understand half of what they write in their text messages and emails these days! and i'm only 20!

I'd ignore all messages sent to me like this.

I don't even understand what CBA means ?

I am aware of it as I have quite a few younger family members on my FB.

e.g "Awr I'm not gonna lie, well hungover likeee, meshhhhy head, need shleeeps. Sameeee again tonight ISIT?"

Not sure what it's all about to be honest.

HAHAHA

thisssss thread makes me laff tbf. well cba to go get a cup of teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

ISIT?

ITIS!!!

I read this the other day"

"Summer beginsss Yeahhhh.

Just got back form Rorys pretty fuun taning, boxinggg haha. sickk timess.
Lookking forward to trips now gna have funnn."

Do you think they actually speak like this in real life? haha

I seem to have acquired a number of the children I used to babysit for as FB friends, two of them (now 15) use this terrible weird spelling, and they're both A* English students. In fact, one of them commented to the other a couple of days ago' How come two girls who love English so much spell like this on facebook' (spellings corrected by me in translation!)

I am the same with mine ?

Especially the stupidness of writing their names as Adammm and Rachelll and adding extra s's to the end of our surname

I have a 'friend' on FB who talks like that - but she is about 45 for goodness sake! I really should cull her ?

A recent post - "iv bn playin wiv my new laptop n downloadin stuff....got it well sussed now..." Grow up!

My 13 year old daughter and all her silly friends do this......... I have to restrain myself from chopping her fingers off when I see her texting or emailing. She used to do it in her texts to me until I told her I wouldn't reply to them in future if she didn't 'speak' properly. She stopped.

I have asked her the reasons why and you're going to love it.

Are you ready?

Is your breath baited?

It's because it "makes them (the words) look pretty". Yes, really ?

Honestly?!?....?

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I really do worry about the current "text" generation. I'm hoping it will be a youthful phase and when they reach their mid-twenties they'll snap out of it and write properly.

But what if they don't? Where will the English language be in 50 years time?

I know this makes me sound impossibly old, but I do think about it every time I read Da Kidz posts on Facebook.

Lyni CBA = can't be @rsed, i don't think its necessarily a new one as its one my parents introduced to me donkey's years ago in the phrase 'i have a bad case of the CBA's'

Auris you are kidding me right? it doesn't look pretty! it is just unreadable!

i can't believe some of the stuff that i see on facebook either. one i really loathe at the moment is 'goin out 2nyte, is gonna get messy init' and some of them are only 16 or 17, i feel like saying 'Yes it certainly will be messy when you throw up 2 litres of white lightening cider all over your mum's nice clean house'. Although to be honest i've seen this kind of update from some ex-colleagues of mine too, all of whom were in their mid to late 20's!

English as a language has constantly evolved through the ages. You only have to try reading some Chaucer or the like - it's almost incomprehensible.

But will it evolve into text speak? I really hope not. I must be really old as I just can't understand any of it. But then I can't stand bad spelling and punctuation anyway - even though I'm guilty of it myself sometimes!

Ugh, hate text speak and everything related. Am a complete stickler for spelling, grammar and punctuation!!!! Even reading this thread has made me want to scream! Do you think I'm over-reacting? ?

I wish I was joking, but I'm not....... that's the reason she gave. I was horrified ?

I hate it. cannot understand most of it either. but my cousin must have the worst one

"yayyyyy i have jst gt a letter from franklin nd i have passed ma lvl one english "

(yay i have just got a letter from franklin (college) and i have passed my level one english )

I feel your pain

Because they look pretty??? I give up!

My relatives not only use txxt spkk but also type in a Sunderland accent so half the time I really haven't a clue what they're saying to each other. Can anyone understand this?

mint!!......dint knar wat it means but yanar

lol...itz just not fair, we always get telt off && wer arr quiet as out xx

haha tha tym we went swimmin in tha beck haha we got bite by leaches nd fucken netled ...nd that tym when u went in tha sea nd had 2 gan home in johns top haha nd i pissed me self laughin ....nd when we were on tha bus nd we waved at pl gannin by nd got our bots out haha......barbie card was a legend haha.... u askin lads 4 there numbers haha i can think ov loads lol had mint tyms wif ya hunni lya xxxxxxxxxxx

And there was me thinking CBA stood for Consuela Banana 'Ammock. ?

txt dialect ? That really amused me. I'm South African and I can understand it perfectly (former flatmate was from the north east so some of the slang makes sense).

I don't know - English is a living language and I think as long as these kids don't expect a job application thus written to be taken seriously, let them get on with it.

Sadly I am related to a lot of northern chavs, and as a result I understand all those posts, what gets me though is not so much my teenage cousins writing like that but their parents, they're in their 40s for gods sake!! So sad!

I had an application recently with the response to why are you interested in this role being:

'Coz i ned da £'

I had to come up with an appropriate 'rejection' letter....................very tempted to use 'soz no go at mo innit'

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