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Xean
 30 Jun 2011, 17:55 #122025 Reply To Post
Quote: dancingsue, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 17:19
Quote: notleyab, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 16:44
Quote: dancingsue, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 10:45


It is one reason I take exception to people who reduce the language in their posts to abbreviations. Do me the courtesy of assuming I can read whole words and well-constructed sentences.


Do I feel pilloried tday. Just bn called a twat on the thank U page and now this not so heavily disguised barb. Time for a tea to calm my nerves.


You've heard me say it before, David, so I don't know why you would feel pilloried now. If you want to respond to something I've said - I don't give a hoot when you're talking to somebody else - I'd like to think you've made the time to do so. If you give me one of your truncated responses, it requires me to spend extra time trying to guess what you mean. We're not on texting terms, so is it too much to expect that you might write your reply out in full?



Sounds like selfish thinking in a way. All I require of myself is a comment be understandable, not perfect. That requires an extra level of time and energy on my part which can better be applied for more pertinent matters.

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Xean
 30 Jun 2011, 17:56 #122027 Reply To Post
Right RayM, a good writer must know how to harness those tools.
This post was last edited by Xean, 30 Jun 2011, 18:00

Quest to illume true bliss, part of and beyond the self.

notleyab
 30 Jun 2011, 18:00 #122029 Reply To Post
Quote: dancingsue, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 17:19
Quote: notleyab, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 16:44
Quote: dancingsue, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 10:45


It is one reason I take exception to people who reduce the language in their posts to abbreviations. Do me the courtesy of assuming I can read whole words and well-constructed sentences.


Do I feel pilloried tday. Just bn called a twat on the thank U page and now this not so heavily disguised barb. Time for a tea to calm my nerves.


You've heard me say it before, David, so I don't know why you would feel pilloried now. If you want to respond to something I've said - I don't give a hoot when you're talking to somebody else - I'd like to think you've made the time to do so. If you give me one of your truncated responses, it requires me to spend extra time trying to guess what you mean. We're not on texting terms, so is it too much to expect that you might write your reply out in full?


is it hot back in Blighty today? Everybody seems very tetchy.
Let me see if I can write this out in full.
I automatically tend to shorten words in my haste to get things on paper as quickly as possible.
& as there's no spell check here, and trying to write on a wee keyboard, it doesn't always work.
dancingsue
 30 Jun 2011, 18:12 #122032 Reply To Post
Quote: Xean, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 17:55
Quote: dancingsue, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 17:19
Quote: notleyab, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 16:44
Quote: dancingsue, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 10:45


It is one reason I take exception to people who reduce the language in their posts to abbreviations. Do me the courtesy of assuming I can read whole words and well-constructed sentences.


Do I feel pilloried tday. Just bn called a twat on the thank U page and now this not so heavily disguised barb. Time for a tea to calm my nerves.


You've heard me say it before, David, so I don't know why you would feel pilloried now. If you want to respond to something I've said - I don't give a hoot when you're talking to somebody else - I'd like to think you've made the time to do so. If you give me one of your truncated responses, it requires me to spend extra time trying to guess what you mean. We're not on texting terms, so is it too much to expect that you might write your reply out in full?



Sounds like selfish thinking in a way. All I require of myself is a comment be understandable, not perfect. That requires an extra level of time and energy on my part which can better be applied for more pertinent matters.


You're right, Xean, it is - damned selfish. I like to be able to understand what people are saying without learning another language.
the long and the short of it

jbenson
 30 Jun 2011, 18:14 #122033 Reply To Post
Quote: Xean, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 17:55
Quote: dancingsue, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 17:19
Quote: notleyab, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 16:44
Quote: dancingsue, Thursday, 30 Jun 2011 10:45


It is one reason I take exception to people who reduce the language in their posts to abbreviations. Do me the courtesy of assuming I can read whole words and well-constructed sentences.


Do I feel pilloried tday. Just bn called a twat on the thank U page and now this not so heavily disguised barb. Time for a tea to calm my nerves.


You've heard me say it before, David, so I don't know why you would feel pilloried now. If you want to respond to something I've said - I don't give a hoot when you're talking to somebody else - I'd like to think you've made the time to do so. If you give me one of your truncated responses, it requires me to spend extra time trying to guess what you mean. We're not on texting terms, so is it too much to expect that you might write your reply out in full?



Sounds like selfish thinking in a way. All I require of myself is a comment be understandable, not perfect. That requires an extra level of time and energy on my part which can better be applied for more pertinent matters.


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sulcus
 30 Jun 2011, 18:20 #122036 Reply To Post
You're quite right of course, reading is a specialised form of pattern recognition. The brain is smart enough to guess the word from 1st & last letters and context within the sentence, but like predictive texts, will get it wrong when the possible choices are too vast. Having said that, a novel full of writing like this would probably wear the reader down and leave them inclined to duck out of the read.
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katarina66
 10 Aug 2011, 19:24 #126629 Reply To Post


We can discuss spelling differences until the cows come home. Different countries will still have different spellings. Live with it.


Not to mention meanings... is this the right time to point out the differences between a British and an American 'fanny?'

Oh my goodnes - And I did get some funny looks when I went into a newsagents and asked for a rubber!
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notleyab
 10 Aug 2011, 20:26 #126634 Reply To Post
Quote: katarina66, Wednesday, 10 Aug 2011 19:24


Oh my goodnes - And I did get some funny looks when I went into a newsagents and asked for a rubber!

many years ago in the UK I went out with an Oz nurse.
She told how she was hanging up the Xmas decorations in a ward and asked somebody to hand her some Durex.
Not surprisingly she got some strange looks.
Don't know whether it's still so, but in those days Durex was the same generic as Sellotape in English English..


papa stas
 10 Aug 2011, 21:10 #126637 Reply To Post
I had a buddy from England -

asked him if he was wearing suspenders -

the guy

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