I Was Onto Something!

[Monkey Wrench]

I knew that the near-constant use if I'm lingo would rear its ugly head in middle school! Here's the proof:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/02/09/chat.lingo.ap/index.html

Now I am scared! Some teacher claims they should be applauded for creating a new language to communicate in the high-tech world? Are you flippin' kidding me? I think all these young buttholes that insist on using I'm lingo in term papers and the like should be smacked in the head! I don't care how "cute" they think it is, it's annoying and unnecessary! Slang is one thing, every language in the world contains slang, but this I'm crap is just that, crap!

 

[Candyman]

monkey are you whack this is the wave of the future its ez 2 do it you know you gotsta that also means u never have to use punctuation and never have to capitolize and frankly never have to compose a coherent thought evar agin LOL ZOMG you roxxorzzz

 

[NCNitro]

I hate that crap! It's rediculous for that teacher to find it ok, and credit these teens for inventing a new language, I guess that teacher invented the internet too. Since these kids using it were about 4-8 when it came out in the first place, how did they invent it? Reminds me of when they tried to pass of ebonics as a real language too. It's just an excuse for laziness, imo.

 

[beason]

DUDE!!!!!!!! I'm in that article!!! read the last paragraph! OMG WTF!!!!!! WEWT!! lol

 

[RevoME]

NCNitro... dhis tages gare off al the sbeling props we hafe eferyhear!
Yust use the I'm languitsch and we're all bedda!
Tschust go wif it, it's like, and I'm like and like... you know?
Good Bye Education, Welcome Sodom and Gomorrah!
REVOME

 

[Monkey Wrench]

DUDE!!!!!!!! I'm in that article!!! read the last paragraph! OMG WTF!!!!!! WEWT!! lol

Impossible, look at all the big words he's quoted with saying. No way in HELL that's you!

Go back home and play with your little floor jack, DINK!

 

[jon2]

NCNitro... dhis tages gare off al the sbeling props we hafe eferyhear!
Yust use the I'm languitsch and we're all bedda!
Tschust go wif it, it's like, and I'm like and like... you know?
Good Bye Education, Welcome Sodom and Gomorrah!
REVOME

OUCH, I have a headache

 

[neobart]

Anyone who uses a z where there should be an s, should be smacked back to a fetal stage. :boxing:

 

[SMaxxin]

It's just an excuse for laziness, imo.

Agreed!!!!!

 

[jetmechG550]

I so don't want this to sound like a racist remark in anyway so don't take it as such, but I had a teacher in COLLEGE that would allow grammatical errors and mispellings for the black students in the class because "that was how they talked and how they felt the words should be spelled (aka ebonics) and sentence structure" while white students we nailed for every little thing. I confronted her about it and then went to the Dean, they made her change her grading process.

 

[rocknbil]

There was a book I read as a kid, I thought it was "Earth Shall Abide" but not finding it. The title is something like that.

Basically is was a post-apocalyptic story from a first person perspective, in this story society breaks down and as the narrator gets old, toward the end of his life he can hardly understand what the kids are saying because the language is changing. "to see" becomes 'tsee", and so on.

An old Star Trek episode relates a planet of children who's language has changed because they killed off all the 'grups' (grownups.)

These stories were written in the 60's/70's long before the Internet, and as annoying as it is - like it or not, our language is evolving. The youths of today are going to be manning the controls (which is a scary enough thought.) Give it 20 years, 'ur', 'leet', and 'ez' are going to wind up in dictionaries and 'your', 'elite', and 'easy' will have "old English" next to them.

 

[RevoME]

Jon, I'll make money one day as interpreter...
Headaches are sometimes a sign of your bodies/ minds inability to scope with change. My wife and me will someday be arrested for making fun of these linguistic trashbags. No wonder everything is going down the pipes.
Sometimes I find myself wondering why we even complain about spanish, somali and other languages spoken in our country, as long as our own future (I mean the generation of degenerated ding dongs that is raised and released everyday) looks so dark...
Back in my days, people read books, spent time outside, and weren't all that "individualistic" afterall... I would bet 1000 Dollars, that a teacher attempting to bring change to these brainless somethings would not enjoy his career at all, because the parents would go awol!

REVOME

 

[hamz9561]

As an instructor, I feel that I have an obligation to correct my students' grammar, spelling and sentence structure on their reports. Listening to other students chattering in the halls, I find they speak unintelligibly in a mish-mash of Spanish, English and some other language out in right-field (Martian maybe?). I've gotten most of my students to stop this practice during class by ignoring them until they speak in English as the school manual states they are supposed to speak.

 

[SMaxxin]

I've gotten most of my students to stop this practice during class by ignoring them until they speak in English as the school manual states they are supposed to speak.

Thank you and keep up the good work!

 

[RevoME]

Thank you and keep up the good work!

Same from me!
Typos are one thing, something typed quickly will have them here and there, no question, but it starts with trying to make a difference.
I see a bunch on 15- 18 year olds trying to be cool and speak all sorts of lingo, for the most part I can't understand them at all and I will refuse to work with them.

Reminds me of the teacher standing in front of class with a worldmap on the wall, asking his students:

"Could someone please tell me where I could find Paris on this map?"

One female teen gets up, and says: "I think, she's like, I mean like, probably like in Australia right now!"

 

[jetmechG550]

Ok, get this one, my daughter (in kindergarten) has a bag they bring home every week to put things in that start with the letter they were working on for the week. This week they were on the letter "E", so outside of cutting off someone's ear or gouging out an eye, I thought I would be cute and I gave her a little sheep she had and told her to tell them it's a Ewe, a female sheep. Her teacher didn't know how to spell it and my daughter had to tell her.

 

[Monkey Wrench]

Ok, get this one, my daughter (in kindergarten) has a bag they bring home every week to put things in that start with the letter they were working on for the week. This week they were on the letter "E", so outside of cutting off someone's ear or gouging out an eye, I thought I would be cute and I gave her a little sheep she had and told her to tell them it's a Ewe, a female sheep. Her teacher didn't know how to spell it and my daughter had to tell her.

That is sad. My son (2nd grade) came home the other day and showed me his papers. One was a time line exercise showcasing inventions in travel (i.e. the bicycle, airplane, etc.) The students had to cut out the attached pictures of each, follow the clues given and place the pictures in the correct spot on the time line. The teacher scored it a 100%, but as I got to looking at it, it dawns on me, my son only got two correct! Under the date 1961 he had airplane (should've been rocket), under 1868 he rocket, under 1903 he had railroad. I wrote a little note asking if indeed the teacher had actually looked at this and my wife (who, ironically, is a teacher by trade) asks why. Huh? Besides the obvious clues that were given, are you telling me you don't realize that the rocket came AFTER the airplane? Haven't heard back from his teacher yet.

Additionally, I remember in junior high geography class taking a test where we had to write the names of the countries on a blank map. Keep in mind, this is before the break-up of the Soviet Union, so in their spot, I wrote "CCCP", which is the Russian equivalent of "USSR". She marked it wrong, and when I argued it, she told me I was absolutely incorrect! I had to bring in an article from Time proving I was correct!

I have all the respect and admiration for anyone that chooses to be a teacher, because I truly believe it to be one of the hardest jobs out there (my wife and Mom both are teachers) and I know they will make mistakes, but my hat is off to teacher like you, Hamz, that will not allow for sloppy work! I'm glad most teachers believe that way!