Tarantula wrote: Don't grind my gears - Laughed Out Loud -LOL What is IMHO? and TTFN - Oh do get a life. What numb scull got hold of a keyboard? Then again every child over six nowadays texts and text speak all the time. I honestly think it stunts their mental growth. Most are quick at texting but cannot hold a simple conversation. Know what I mean bro/sis. @Tombola, @Stixxee, @harryflatters Most of these things have roots decades old. Tommy Handley, for instance, used "TTFN " over 70 years ago. "Text speak" arguably started in the '30s with Telex machinery, and got a big boost in the '90s with the advent of SMS, that in turn after the success of Usenet in the '80s. "Text speak" should begin to fall out of favour now, as communications methods improve - for instance, if one enunciates clearly, speech-to-text is now quite useful. The problem with "the youth of today" is gently declining standards, foisted on us by a great mass of unwashed "liberal" teachers and their methods of the '70s and '80s, whose products now have children of their own, and are being taught by the aforementioned products themselves - "Who teaches the teachers"? Quite a vicious circle of negative feedback. The problems are compounded by the nefarious use of computers in schools and the home; "there is no need to learn when the answers are available at the press of a button", it seems, so information goes in one ear and straight out of the other, and is not stored; the reason for the illitriacy you perceive. Anyway, it's late now, so HTH (YMMV).
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