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TWRoO on 05 July 2008
sc94597 said:
TWRoO said:
RolStoppable said:

The internet needs an age limit.

It's coming to the point where dialogue on the internet wouldn't even be readable by some one born before 19XX , I mean i'm very guilty of it myself but still it's quite worrying.

Most of the people who were born in the 19th century don't live anymore. There are hardly any alive people who are 110 years or older, so you don't have to worry about that.

Except that 19XX doesn't refer to the 19th Century Roland, it refers to the 20th

 

Yeah, but he is talking about people who were born before the 20th century or what is the 19th century by saying 19XX. This could mean anywhere from1900 to 1999.

 

I suppose... but I was using the fact that by XX he meant to add in whatever numbers, so strictly would mean born before 1998, or earlier.

 



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Andir on 05 July 2008

I love how you try to blame the "americans" for "english" mistakes when you clearly didn't capitalize either. I won't mention the clear lack of commas.

On topic though: Let me point out how the English language is an evolving species. Have you ever tried reading raw Shakespeare? It wasn't the Americans that started corrupting the language.

Natural evolution in both the species and the language is going to happen. Live with it and stop playing the "Americans are ruining my language" card. To me, blaming Americans for poor English is offensive.



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SHMUPGurus on 05 July 2008

I totally agree with you. My first language is not English, but I think I'm definitely not that bad compared to some other people on the Internet!

There are some things I can't stand to see though, such as ''i'' instead of ''I'' (we learn this before we are even born) or the usual misunderstanding between ''then'' and ''than.''

By the way... Just saying, one thing I usually do is use a game's full name rather than just an abbreviation of it. I wish some other people would do it more often though...



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fazz on 05 July 2008

You don't have to worry when having a cat around.



SHMUPGurus on 05 July 2008
fazz said:

You don't have to worry when having a cat around.

I'm not too sure about that:



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kitler53 on 05 July 2008

language evolves, deal with it. are you going to blame the french, spanish, italian for killing its latin roots? how about english, german for killing its germanic roots? either evolve or die - choice is yours.



naznatips on 05 July 2008
Million said:

 



ab·bre·vi·a·tion

  1. The act or product of shortening.

spell·ing 

  1. The forming of words with letters in an accepted order

From In my experience, the killing of the English language started with abbreviations such as "lol" and "lmao," but now we''ve we've advanced ( or degraded, depending on how you look at it) into abbreviations for pretty much everything; IMO (in my opinion), IMHO, POS (piece of shit), ROLF , pwned , FYI , etc. etc etc

And On top of this, the spelling ability of the average user seems to have degraded . I'm not talking about people who don't speak English as their first language, and I'm not sure wether whether it's due to an influx of 9-12's nine to twelve year-olds gaining acess access to the internet, but it's a really troubling sign for the future.

I'm 17 , and I'm not claiming to be some highly-articulate , grammatical pro, and I'm not saying everyone else should be either, but I think it's agreed that the internet is pretty much killing our language (or maybe the Americans are lol).

It's coming to the point where dialogue on the internet wouldn't even be readable by some one born before 19XX . I mean, I'm very guilty of it myself, but still it's it's still quite worrying.


Both you and your topic get an F.  See me after class for a warning on the anti-American crap.  Locking.