You've got to be kidding..

[theirlaw]

as a 7th former about to sit exams I am disgusted.

what a load of bollocks.

Fully agree with the government promoting mediocrity remarks - what a complete waste of fucking time and money. :evil:

[freestylin_hamster]

I'm a no for predictive... i find it way slower.
But i'm used to txting normally since long before precictive.

[trend.whore]

Originally Posted by UnitedWeFall

10 times faster, and no need to shorten words. gg.

Likewise, very easy to use.

[del-solider]

Originally Posted by broken_ITR

tkz me mre tym tryn 2 thnk bowt hw mny vwlz im gna drp. it wnt save 1 2nd n an exam.

Plus, things could be thrown out of context. E.g. "wnt save 1 2nd". When it should be "Won't save one second"

Anyone feel me??

8O I dont
Lol trust you 2 do a Looong explation adam :lol

[Spanky69r]

Originally Posted by freestylin_hamster

I'm a no for predictive... i find it way slower.
But i'm used to txting normally since long before precictive.

same here

but like others have said txtlish has a time and place and it shouldnt be in school

i know when to write in txtlish and when to write formally

[Matty]

Originally Posted by Bananaman

Has anyone seen the e-mail floating around explaining that you only have to get the first and last letter of any given word right with approximatly the same number of letters and you can still read it???

Yep, it was posted on here a while ago and I disproved it. It relies on a generic randomisation of the letters within the word. By ordering them alphabetically it becomes unintelligible.

[StandardStyle]

Originally Posted by Matty

Best April Fool's Day joke ever. Oh hang on...

I'm sorry but I just had to quote that for irony's sake.

Full words for the win, for the win :wink:

[NGHTYGIRL]

OMG!! I can hardly understand some peoples txt!! its amazing how short some people can make words, OK yeah il be honest and say i make a few words txt, like dnt, culdnt, yesday, ta etc, but some people go OVERBOARD!!

[freestiLe]

Originally Posted by RJ

My jaw hit the floor when I heard this on the new this morning. It really is a joke. Sounds like the kids are running the NCEA.

The one I can't stand and it's sneaking in all over the place... til or till. The word is until FFS!! I did a group assignment at Uni and the girl typing had used the word all through the 10000 word document - fun times editing that bad boy.

Dont you mean For Fucks Sake? lol
See, everyone uses txt speak. Netx they will be able to answer exam questions by going "lol $@#^@ rofl"

[Haydz]

Theres a big differentce between an abbrieviation and an acronym. Neither should hold place in assessments or exams unless they are related to the topic i.e. IRQ etc. etc.

I can put up with acronyms for FFS, WTF and LOL but i can't stand abbrieviated words, i.e. text message language.

[Woody]

Originally Posted by JasITRDC5

Thats just stupid. I feel weird writing txt phrases such as lol or omg. To me it will always only feel ok typing it. Not to mention who in the right mind would even think of accepting it. My dad has never sent a single text in his life, and he actually received a certificate of thanks from some society dedicated to the protection of the english language lol.

To be pedantic..
LOL, OMG, IMHO, HTH, GTG, GGP, IRL, J/K D/L, WTF, FFS etc are Chat acronyms, not textlish
But they probably are one of the reasons for Textlish spawning

[edit] Haydz, ya beat me to it [/edit]


I heard on the radio that the first 'abbreviated' word was around the time of Socrates or Freud or some other notable historical thinking figure type, and the word was 'gr8'

But I still think exams should be taken with a more serious note, and no textlish be allowed. Imagine these kiddies going out into the real world, with real jobs, and using it on their resumes, or on memo's at work... would you be impressed if you were a hiring employer?

[Colza]

Originally Posted by Woody

But I still think exams should be taken with a more serious note, and no textlish be allowed. Imagine these kiddies going out into the real world, with real jobs, and using it on their resumes, or on memo's at work... would you be impressed if you were a hiring employer?

My point exactly!!! Poor language skills from everyone else means that I am all the more employable due to my ability actually write in full English sentences.

Not smart from the Governments point of view, but it might work out ok for me

[Alastaar]

As I understand it, people sitting NCEA dont even need to sit an exam at the end of the year if they get enough credits by doing assingments during the year anyway :!:

[GecKo]

Originally Posted by Alastaar

As I understand it, people sitting NCEA dont even need to sit an exam at the end of the year if they get enough credits by doing assingments during the year anyway :!:

Spot on.

[Frost]

I say let them use it if they want to...... THEN when the exams are marked, all the students that used text language should be given a bout of chlamydia. Knock those fuckers out of the gene pool once and for all!!!

[broken_ITR]

This made me laugh....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMGWTF

NIFOC = Naked In Front Of Computer

[V8eta]

Originally Posted by Woody

Imagine these kiddies going out into the real world, with real jobs, and using it on their resumes, or on memo's at work... would you be impressed if you were a hiring employer?

Fully agree, i would never hire someone who had txt speak all through their application or resume.

[CRX_VTiR]

Get Sir Bob Jones to write the rules for exams, he'd sort them out good and proper!

[MMJA]

My girlfriend showed this to me today and it's probably the most ridiculous thing this government has ever done. High school is suppose to prepare you for tertiary education and if all the kids in high school get used to writing in txt they will hit uni and be absolutely rooted.

[TakeiTeg]

NIFOC FTW!

[VTEC22]

Originally Posted by TakeiTeg

NIFOC FTW!

I bt u ant lyin ethr rotfl11!11

WHY would do they want to do that?
Yay for me i can spell kind of allright
I thought the spelling at work was bad enough now this meh i guess i get to give more people shit.

[Bananaman]

"Can you raed tihs? Olny srmat poelpe can.
cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch
at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers
in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat
ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can
sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos
not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was
ipmorantt!"

This is the paragraph I was talking about earlier. I know matty said it has be posted before but if you haven't yet seen it here it is.

[LS/VTEC]

Originally Posted by UnitedWeFall

I totally agree (even though i'm a teenager :wink: )

In my defense, I don't even use text-speak in text messages Predictive FTW!

*Edit: Do abbreviations count?

but aint you like 19 Jody. LOL sure you must be a adult age but act like a teenager, thats what your saying

[Fabolous]

txtlish in exams? wtf are they going to do IF they get to uni? try using txtlish in the law exams, fuck faces.

[VTAKYO]

Writing in txtlish will not be accepted in the work place, nor will it be accepted at University. Why the fuck should the high school system give into common culture and allow incomprehensivly shortened words to be permitted in formal exam situations. A lot of the words are open to interpretation... If Universities were to fall for this crap, they would completely lose their credability. If High School is meant to prepare students for Uni and the workforce, isn't it contradictory to promote such utterly meatheaded mind processes.