[ SECRET POST #2260 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2260 ⌋

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Comments

TB2

[(Anonymous)]

... I spell out my text messages in full. I also don't tend to use slang, but that's because I always have this horrible suspicion that I'm using it wrongly, so it's safer just not to use it at all.

But I'm possibly not the best example to be taking.

Re: TB2

[kamino_neko]

I always have this horrible suspicion that I'm using it wrongly

When I was younger, it seemed like there was a strange conspiracy to make me think that. (Which was particularly funny, as I've always had an especially large vocabulary.)

Re: TB2

[(Anonymous)]

I've always had a fairly huge vocabulary myself, and I tended to use it (I have distinct memories of being followed around the playground by a jeering crowd asking me to define words for them, because I was the Walking Dictionary). I did sometimes wonder if people kept giving me conflicting explanations for slang out of a sort of revenge for all the words I used that they didn't understand.

In hindsight, I think none of us were doing it on purpose, as such. I just couldn't keep up with the way slang shifted from place to place/person to person/time to time, and they genuinely didn't understand why I had to use six long words where two short ones would have done (for the record, I always feel this need to be precise, and English has a lot of words that mean close to the same thing, but not exactly).

Mostly, I just blink stupidly at people when they use slang I don't get (or innuendo), and they ask me for a translation when I'm getting too long-winded to keep up.

Re: TB2

[tabaqui]

I spell out all text messages, too - made easier by the fact that i can do SMS messaging here on my computer. I told my daughter if she sent me 'lolspeak' or 'textspeak' messages I wouldn't read them, and now she pretty much only ever does that when joking with her friends.

Victory!