Posters in the UK, a trivial question.... (page 2)

bigmac

i hate text-speak----the modern language of youth--i suppose. alas--here in the UK we have just about the worst local slanguage variation imaginable. i mean--of course---sarf lahndn innit.

Glander

Do you have to go outside to have a fag? Careful where you leave your butts.

betterdaze

Do you have to go outside to have a fag? Careful where you leave your butts.

LOL @ Glander.

When we first moved here, Mr. B asked a cousin in a neighboring burgh about good restaurants. Quite a few where we grew up were housed in historic buildings going back to the Revolutionary era.

So, one Saturday night we go out to the one called "Connexions." In a Victorian-era train station. How *kewl* is that?

We're traipsing up the stairs and there's hot photos of shirtless men in a$$less chaps. I'm getting a funny feeling. We arrive at the top and it's apparent: We're in a gay men's nightclub.

So we politely decline. End up at a lovely Morris Canal inn within a stone's throw down the road.

The one starting with a "C" that his cousin had recommended at the outset. Not exactly a worst case scenario.

~Sue

Glander

I guess it could be worser.

talesin

Hey, Char, I was thinking the same thing when I read this thread, but couldn't comment as everything was locked.

Bad,,, worse ... worst... that is actually grammar, and any (american) teacher who marks the superlative as wrong, is ignorant.

EDIT: the opposite: good, better, best, just to illustrate the point.

It's true that the proliferation of texting, and internet-speak, has truly 'dumbed down' the way we communicate. It has its good and bad sides, but still, I feel that that basics of grammar, like math, are the necessary building tools of a good education.

;)

talesin

@ glander

But it could be the bestest!

:D

betterdaze

I guess it could be worser.

When telling a yarn: that's worsted.

AnnOMaly

4 bigmac. i h8 txtspk 2 lol.

Glander

Tal, LOL, I think 'bestest' better than 'worser'. I had a three year old who used 'worser' so much she had me saying it!

It's true that the proliferation of texting, and internet-speak, has truly 'dumbed down' the way we communicate. It has its good and bad sides, but still, I feel that that basics of grammar, like math, are the necessary building tools of a good education.

Absolutley. I was sailing along through the above referenced novel when I came across the spelling of 'connexion'. It stopped me for a moment and then recurred several times in the book. It was a distraction but turned out it is correct. Not so with butchered syntax, etc. I am not a well educated man but I do appreciate proper structure.

I read Charles Dickens every couple of years. By the time I finish Oliver Twist, for the 7th time, I feel my own language/vocabulary has been given a tonic.

talesin

Oh, I so love Dickens! "It was the best of times, and the worst of times"

haha, didn't even realize when I was typing the quote, that it had that word in the quote. You know, in his time, Dickens was considered a hack, much like some folks nowadays look at Steven King. My favorite popularist writers are Shakespeare, Dickens, and King.

:))

tal

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