sirtophat said:Why don't we all just reinstate thou, ye, the long s, and the thorn?
Dunc2403 said:For example, I trust that Shimmy will use proper grammar,
Beat me to it I see.Phanteon11 said:What is Trust? Baby, don't hurt me, don't hurt me , no more. (Electric Piano Solo)
Wedge of Cheese said:I must admit, Fab, I was expecting something a bit more sarcastic/dark/condescending when I saw you had posted here . I don't know whether to be disappointed or proud.
I should note that chatspeak is too inconsistant to be viable as a language, which actually makes it less efficient. One word in English may be represented in ten different ways in chatspeak. This means that the only way to understand chatspeak is by translating it to proper English in your mind, which requires a fairly good understanding of English if you are not a native speaker. Chatspeak is only there to make you do the work that someone else was too lazy to do.sirtophat said:Txt speak is objectively technically more efficient than standard English because it conveys more in less characters; it just carries a stigma of the user being 12/uneducated/stupid/whatever and most people aren't used to it enough to read/write it as fluently as standard English, unfortunately.
cultr1 said:
Shimmyzmizz said:Because people get ye confused with thou. Ye is the colloquial pronoun for the plural second person. In other words, when you write "ye", it means "You all". Thou, on the other hand, is the pronoun for the singular second person. (Or "you.")
andwhyisit said:I should note that chatspeak is too inconsistant to be viable as a language, which actually makes it less efficient. One word in English may be represented in ten different ways in chatspeak.
andwhyisit cont. said:This means that the only way to understand chatspeak is by translating it to proper English in your mind, which requires a fairly good understanding of English if you are not a native speaker. Chatspeak is only there to make you do the work that someone else was too lazy to do.
sirtophat said:Buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, their/they're/there and your/you're being pronounced the same, it's all about context.