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And in English, with Vowels...
If I typed an entire sentence without using any Vowels, very few people would be able to understand what I'm on about, and I doubt I would be able to either. How comes then it is acceptable for us to think we can talk to each other without vowels then?
I text an awful lot, in fact too much, and all my texts are written in the way I'd write an English essay, by spelling every word properly, called the 'Queens English', because It always takes me 10 minutes to work out I'm saying if I shorten it and when I receive a text, I have to sit and work out what is being said to me.
A women's private area, more commonly known as a 'Virginia' in the mature world, is called a 'Wizards Sleeve' in street talk I found out yesterday – it came up in conversation. Anyway, I think it gives an entire new meaning to Harry Potter now.
Harry: Come on Hermione, we'll be late to defeat Lord Voldemort again if you don't hurry up.
Hermione: Hang on Harry, I’m just getting my hand out of my wizards sleeve then we can go... Actually, could you give me hand?
More slang, which is just as inappropriate, comes in the form of ways to ‘affectionately’ address your girlfriend or other half. Such words include; Bitch, Whore/Hoe, GF (Which could just as easily mean Goldfish), 'Fuck Buddy', Wifey, or more socially accepted – Spouse. To be honest, I would never call my girlfriend any of those names (accept Spouse maybe) if I had one, but then maybe that’s where I have been going wrong, I’ve been calling previous girlfriends by their name, or referring to them by their relationship to me – Girlfriend. I used to think if I called one of them a ‘Whore’ (which I’m not), I’d get a slap, but obviously that’s not the case – Silly Me!
Onto acronyms now... How people come up with certain acronyms, I will never know. These people must be uneducated, unemployed people who watch countdown and can't make a word up that's over 3 letters long, so try and make it into an acronym instead. How someone came up with 'ROFFLMFAOOLTTFM' I will never know. In case you're wondering, it means 'Roll On the Fucking Floor Laughing My Ass Off Out Loud To The Fucking Max'.
We all know the popular and overused ‘LOL’. In fact it’s so well known that people now actually say ‘LOL’ to people instead of ‘Laughing Out Loud’ which is just getting ridiculous, it seems the technology of phones and computers mean we have forgotten to socially interact with each other. There are other acronyms which are used like the one previously mentioned, ‘LMAO’ which means ‘Laughing My Arse Off’, ‘BRB’ which means ‘Be Right Back’ and ‘WUBU2’ which means ‘What You Been Up To?’
To help myself get around some of the gobbledegook, I use ‘The Urban Dictionary’ which is very handy for ‘Middle Class’ people like me who have no idea what people are saying to me. I decided to type in ‘SOL’ to see what result comes back, and I was amazed by the amount of things ‘SOL’ means. For example I had; ‘Smile Out Loud’, ‘Shit Outta Luck’, ‘Sex On Legs’, ‘Snorting Out Loud’, ‘Sigh Out Loud’, ‘Snigger Out Loud’ and more sensibly, and surprisingly ‘Speed Of Light’, I didn’t even know the speed of light was a such popular topic of discussion with my peers.
We come to the point in my blog, where I don’t know how to conclude. We already know that everyone’s social standards are falling, with no-one even talking to each other, which is favourite topic amongst comedians who have many jokes about the silence on public transport. Basically, all that I have proven is that a few people I socialise with don’t own a dictionary and are very good at hiding their dyslexia – insult not intended to anyone who has dyslexia, or indeed anyone I know, I am just saying.
So, it’s time for me to say – C U L8r...
Or as I say it – Toodles M’dearys
xXXx
And in English, with Vowels...
If I typed an entire sentence without using any Vowels, very few people would be able to understand what I'm on about, and I doubt I would be able to either. How comes then it is acceptable for us to think we can talk to each other without vowels then?
I text an awful lot, in fact too much, and all my texts are written in the way I'd write an English essay, by spelling every word properly, called the 'Queens English', because It always takes me 10 minutes to work out I'm saying if I shorten it and when I receive a text, I have to sit and work out what is being said to me.
A women's private area, more commonly known as a 'Virginia' in the mature world, is called a 'Wizards Sleeve' in street talk I found out yesterday – it came up in conversation. Anyway, I think it gives an entire new meaning to Harry Potter now.
Harry: Come on Hermione, we'll be late to defeat Lord Voldemort again if you don't hurry up.
Hermione: Hang on Harry, I’m just getting my hand out of my wizards sleeve then we can go... Actually, could you give me hand?
More slang, which is just as inappropriate, comes in the form of ways to ‘affectionately’ address your girlfriend or other half. Such words include; Bitch, Whore/Hoe, GF (Which could just as easily mean Goldfish), 'Fuck Buddy', Wifey, or more socially accepted – Spouse. To be honest, I would never call my girlfriend any of those names (accept Spouse maybe) if I had one, but then maybe that’s where I have been going wrong, I’ve been calling previous girlfriends by their name, or referring to them by their relationship to me – Girlfriend. I used to think if I called one of them a ‘Whore’ (which I’m not), I’d get a slap, but obviously that’s not the case – Silly Me!
Onto acronyms now... How people come up with certain acronyms, I will never know. These people must be uneducated, unemployed people who watch countdown and can't make a word up that's over 3 letters long, so try and make it into an acronym instead. How someone came up with 'ROFFLMFAOOLTTFM' I will never know. In case you're wondering, it means 'Roll On the Fucking Floor Laughing My Ass Off Out Loud To The Fucking Max'.
We all know the popular and overused ‘LOL’. In fact it’s so well known that people now actually say ‘LOL’ to people instead of ‘Laughing Out Loud’ which is just getting ridiculous, it seems the technology of phones and computers mean we have forgotten to socially interact with each other. There are other acronyms which are used like the one previously mentioned, ‘LMAO’ which means ‘Laughing My Arse Off’, ‘BRB’ which means ‘Be Right Back’ and ‘WUBU2’ which means ‘What You Been Up To?’
To help myself get around some of the gobbledegook, I use ‘The Urban Dictionary’ which is very handy for ‘Middle Class’ people like me who have no idea what people are saying to me. I decided to type in ‘SOL’ to see what result comes back, and I was amazed by the amount of things ‘SOL’ means. For example I had; ‘Smile Out Loud’, ‘Shit Outta Luck’, ‘Sex On Legs’, ‘Snorting Out Loud’, ‘Sigh Out Loud’, ‘Snigger Out Loud’ and more sensibly, and surprisingly ‘Speed Of Light’, I didn’t even know the speed of light was a such popular topic of discussion with my peers.
We come to the point in my blog, where I don’t know how to conclude. We already know that everyone’s social standards are falling, with no-one even talking to each other, which is favourite topic amongst comedians who have many jokes about the silence on public transport. Basically, all that I have proven is that a few people I socialise with don’t own a dictionary and are very good at hiding their dyslexia – insult not intended to anyone who has dyslexia, or indeed anyone I know, I am just saying.
So, it’s time for me to say – C U L8r...
Or as I say it – Toodles M’dearys
xXXx
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