Oh, this makes me vindictively happy

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6982283.ece

After always being laughed at by this sort of teen for using "long words" (read: normal words. At one school I went to I couldn't even use words like 'smother' and 'morbid' without being laughed at and told I was weird.)...this makes me vindictively happy. Fucking dross.

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lol

 

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Eeuw, that's, like, so unkewl, like, really.

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800 words?
What, did they have a lobotomy*?


Ooops, soz. Should'a said "Was they brains took out wif a spoon?"

 

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LOL!!!!

I even had that problem with people in their 20s and up.

Conversations went like this, for example

Me: 'I don't wanna talk about that. It's very morbid.'
Moron: 'What does morbid mean? You're such a walking dictionary.'
Me: Aaaaaargh

This anti-thinking culture is everywhere.

 

Too bad we just dont start a universal shortened and streamlined language and cut out all the BS words.

 

Why?
Define "BS word".

 

No!!! NOOO!! I demand my right to use sesquipedalian words!!

 

Uh wot?

 

VI, your PM allocation is maxed out - delete some of them!!

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eliminate the redundancy and trim english down.

eliminate most punctuation, especially the question mark because it is unneccasry.

 

I read the article. It seems scientifically weak. They used bloggs, chat spaces to determine the vocabularies. They did not actually test the teenagers full range. But maybe I missed something.

 

i am getting a 404 error.

 

When I was in 8th grade I used the word "neglect". My friend didn't know what "neglect" meant, which I didn't find shocking because she wasn't a native English speaker. So after I told her what it meant she used the word "neglect" later at lunch. None of my other friends knew what it meant either. That's kind of sad for a bunch of 13-14 year olds isn't it?

 

Oh, I know.

I had so many of those moments, it got to be not funny any more.

I was once hanging out with a group and for some reason we were talking about death and I said 'I don't want to die peacefully in my sleep. I want to die while high on adrenaline.'

And this girl said...

'I thought you said you didn't take drugs??'

Sad.

 

Unfortunately many of my friends, who are now in their 20's, still practice this bad, low-class habit. I, however, try always to use complete sentences even in texts, and I pride myself in having a more complex vocabulary compared to the average Joe.

 

Too right. My bloody in-laws are paragons of that meme. They're in that upper-middle-class uneducated asshole set; turn their noses up at academia. They sneer - and on what fucking justification, I'd like to know - at anything more intellectual than they are, which is everything. Then they bitch and whine about the way society's turning out these days.

Uh...so, anyway, my point is that it's not just the kids.

 

Please, please tell me you had to have looked that one up!

sesquipedalian:

• given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"
• a very long word (a foot and a half long)
• polysyllabic: (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables; "sesquipedalian technical terms"

I like chickies with good vocabularies (it makes for interesting "pillow talk"

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), but WTF?

On topic, it seems sensible that people should differentiate from "text speak" and a vocabulary necessary to speak intelligently in an interview, conversation with a vendor or purchasing agent, etc.

Do you have any suggestions as to how to go about getting teens to learn the difference? If I am on the street, I have no problem making every other word vulgar, vain, and disgusting. On the other hand, I know when to revert to the "King's English". I would think one's best shot would involve being "fluent" in both. Your thoughts, m'lady?

 

Wait they discovered that teens use small words and text speak by analyzing the words used on internet blogs and chat rooms? Shouldn't they try conducting mock interviews before saying teens can't speak well enough to get through an interview.

 

This is what I get out of the article. They analyzed transcripts of bloggs, etc. and came up with vocabulaty counts with these. It's like saying the guys who hold up the signs at airports to guide the planes to where they park can't speak at all cause we analyzed how they communicate with pilots.

 

Exactly. Perhaps "they" are not giving teens enough credit - perhaps they are relatively "fluent" in both situations...