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Join Date: Jun 2006
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If you didn't post the translation I would have had no clue what they were on about.
24 year old male.
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Wandin North, VIC
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I love that image posted above Col........I LOL'd
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2010
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Gee whiz, these young'uns today... what with their text speak and mobile phones.. Fair dinkum, life just isn't swell like it was back in the day.. now where's my Hotel California LP?
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Brisbane cannon hill
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im so glad i was born in the 40's
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Gold Coaster
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hehe the other day my mum showed me a weird picture and i said "STRIKE ME PINK" lol im 22 in a couple of weeks
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Only stupid bogan tools speak like that....
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I think its the old argument; "conversation Vs communication". From what Louise had posted I would assume there was a degree of communication, but conversation? I don't think so.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2011
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Sit the little buggers down in an English class and watch their heads explode...although there are big pushes to do away with things like grammar and spelling and instead praise kids "as long as the content is there"...for fox sake...
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The older I get the less relevant I feel to younger people.
My 9 y/o daughter has just interrupted me asking for a story before bedtime (I make them up as I go along). I think I'm going to look back fondly on being needed for such simple and lovely tasks. Soon too. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Yeah....
You're parents were probably having these exact thoughts 25 years ago when you guys were walking around all Marty McFly like, talking about being bad to the bone at Space Invaders and whatever, like you know.
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"Flooded it mate?"
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Busselton, Western Australia
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Ah, can't believe some people really talk like that. Only I few I know talk like that... but ugh... not me.
When people do talk to me like that, I do understand it, but it usually takes me a bit longer to comprehend it! Orl ths txtn typ wrtn tkes me about 2 times as lng as wll... ugh hate it! The whole scene of slang speech, eyes glued to mobile phones, and some of these new 'fashions' just, aaaaaargh. What is the point!? A few mates are hard to even talk to... when they talk, they don't say much, and rarely even look at you, always at a phone or a computer or something, and when you try to talk to them, they still aren't looking, or even give any sign that they're listening at all! Often when you finish saying something, they go "mm" or nothing at all... Ah well, guess the world is changing... but there's astill a lot of us who don't wanna be like that! |
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moderator ford coupe club
Join Date: Jun 2007
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our parents thought we (around 40yo) were weird and you can bet their parents thought they were weird and so on and so on. kids aren't changing, it is just the world we are forcing them to grow up in is |
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Bellbird park
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my housemate is 18, and she talks txt lingo all the time, she didnt used to when she moved in a year ago, but the last couple of months she started doing it all the time.
comes out with '****' and 'lmao'... makes me mental trying to understand her sometimes. add in her lack of understanding my subtle kiwi accent and the conversations round here get quite frustrating lol edit: seems l o l z is included in the swear filter... |
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Melbz, Eastside
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It's almost like trying to understand my Scotsman neighbour, across the road..........
when he reverts to Glasgowian speak, mid conversation.
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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I'm 18 and i still don't understand it... along with liking old fords and acdc... guess i'm different...
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Im 20 and never heard anybody talk like that in public..i guess its just me and the people i associate with..none of my mates use text speak even in texts..its all proper grammar and spelling (spell check on the iPhone helps haha)
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2011
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I've always found it interesting that English is the only language that we are told should be allowed to "evolve" and change from year to year and that we have to keep throwing out old rules of grammar and spelling and "not hold onto the past", and crap like that...every other language has firm rules, strict grammar, and in some cases positively fights against changes to it...I'm thinking of French and Spanish in particular. Go to France and see if they'll allow English words to creep into things the way English has "evolved" and words have changed.
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Awesome
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: In my own little world..Everyone here knows me :)
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I have to agree with you to some extent. I have studied a few languages now - Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Indonesian and am working on German and all these languages do have rules but so does English.
Having said that, our language is unique. I love most of the slang. ![]() The point to this thread was more in the way in which these teens appeared to have a whole conversation in under 30 seconds....It amazed me and made me feel quite old! ![]() Cheers Col
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