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Valiant Dancer
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USA
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 Posted - 11/18/2005 : 09:00:43
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10084329/
WTF?
I do believe if we get some hardcore Republicans back who claim the dumbing down of America, I'll have to agree with them.
This is just......... wrong.
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 09:35:16 [Permalink]
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| I doubt that'll happen. To many pissed english teachers. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 10:05:08 [Permalink]
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| I do't know Siberia, don't be surprised. |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 10:16:19 [Permalink]
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I won't.
Thankfully, portuguese doesn't translate well to l33t. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 11/18/2005 : 11:36:56 [Permalink]
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I fail to see the problem. Hardly anyone reads the classics anyway.
Of course, this reduces them to gibberish, but whaddahell; anyone who wants to actually read the classice can hie his intellectual ass off to the library and snuggle up with the rest of the nerds and geeks, and no-life losers. All that is important is passing the test.
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 11:46:17 [Permalink]
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| Well, I don't read the classics because more often than not they're dead boring. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 12:33:25 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
I fail to see the problem. Hardly anyone reads the classics anyway.
Of course, this reduces them to gibberish, but whaddahell; anyone who wants to actually read the classice can hie his intellectual ass off to the library and snuggle up with the rest of the nerds and geeks, and no-life losers. All that is important is passing the test.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 20:11:15 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
This is just......... wrong.
I'll bet a lot of people said that about Cliff's Notes, which is exactly what the marketeers of this texting thing want people comparing it to. |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 11/19/2005 : 07:37:50 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
quote:
Originally posted by filthy
I fail to see the problem. Hardly anyone reads the classics anyway.
Of course, this reduces them to gibberish, but whaddahell; anyone who wants to actually read the classice can hie his intellectual ass off to the library and snuggle up with the rest of the nerds and geeks, and no-life losers. All that is important is passing the test.
Some of us have become one with our inner geek.
 Guilty as charged... |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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woolytoad
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 11/20/2005 : 00:18:33 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Siberia
I won't.
Thankfully, portuguese doesn't translate well to l33t.
This isn't 1337. It's SMS "slang". With 1337, characters are replaced with other similar looking characters T:7, E:3 etc. This SMS thing was the result of trying to save space due to the 72 character limit for a single SMS. I used to use it, but it's become so wide spread even in mediums where space is not a premium (like emails) that it really annoys me now. |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2005 : 04:50:14 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by woolytoad
quote:
Originally posted by Siberia
I won't.
Thankfully, portuguese doesn't translate well to l33t.
This isn't 1337. It's SMS "slang". With 1337, characters are replaced with other similar looking characters T:7, E:3 etc. This SMS thing was the result of trying to save space due to the 72 character limit for a single SMS. I used to use it, but it's become so wide spread even in mediums where space is not a premium (like emails) that it really annoys me now.
Gotcha. It's because they do look alike. I've never been a SMS fan, anyway and, like I said, doesn't translate well to portuguese anyway. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2005 : 14:32:45 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by woolytoad
quote:
Originally posted by Siberia
I won't.
Thankfully, portuguese doesn't translate well to l33t.
This isn't 1337. It's SMS "slang". With 1337, characters are replaced with other similar looking characters T:7, E:3 etc. This SMS thing was the result of trying to save space due to the 72 character limit for a single SMS. I used to use it, but it's become so wide spread even in mediums where space is not a premium (like emails) that it really annoys me now.
Except that when typing letters, it doesn't take up 3 (or 4) bytes in the SMS. So exchanging 'T' with '7' nothing is saved. Specially when many phones have adapted the T9 software. |
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ronnywhite
SFN Regular
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Posted - 12/07/2005 : 23:18:31 [Permalink]
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This SMS thing is interesting... I'd never heard of it. Oh well.
RE classics, I'm a slow reader (even was as a youth) so as one might imagine, reading those ever-so-long fiction books was doubly torturous drudgery for a normal kid who was bouncing-off-walls to begin with. High school literature class teacher ordered we read and report on one from her list (blah!) else have her approve our choice... I ran a Hunter S. Thompson classic (I think it was "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas") by her, and she said "No"... that it had to be a classic (well, that's a classic... kind of... it just wasn't her kind of classic, that's all.) In my frustration, I finally ran Hemmingway (The Old Man and the Sea) by her (mainly because it was short, and she probably knew that) but she grudgingly approved. It turned out to be a decent book. |
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