Saturday, 26 March 2011

Chatspeak gone too far




Apparently, several words that sadly represent our world today (such as LOL, IMHO, FYI, BFF, and OMG) have been given the go ahead and are now in the Oxford English Dictionary.
This, at least to me is a tad excessive. Do we really want this being common usage in documentation now? Because that's where this is going, first the dictionary, and next students will be using it to justify themselves writing an entire report on their BFF's, lawyers using it as shorthand in court to save space and money.

Where is the line drawn from "Haha, pop culture" to "Destroying our language"?



  • OMG

    abbreviation

    informal
    oh my god!:
    OMG! If my parents find out they will go mad.

  • LOL

    abbreviation

    informal
    Laughing out Loud:


..And <3 too? Fucking seriously?

Posted by Mush at 09:49

16 comments:

  1. POP!26 March 2011 at 22:01

    Hey nothing wrong with some good ol' OMG's and BFF's lol

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  2. Anonymous26 March 2011 at 22:30

    Lol. Omg that is crazy. i wonder if they'll add Wtf later on xD

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  3. Blogsford27 March 2011 at 03:01

    I don't care for this though. Like honestly, why should you care? I respect your opinion though

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  4. Bremsy27 March 2011 at 03:03

    luckily my language has very few of them but you americans/brits are fuked

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  5. BP27 March 2011 at 03:12

    I see your point

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  6. Oscar27 March 2011 at 03:13

    Wow. That's fucking sad.

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  7. Polybius27 March 2011 at 03:15

    I agree it's bad but not as worse as a few years ago when those things were just starting to get popular.

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  8. crustaa27 March 2011 at 03:18

    Holy crap thats crazy. and pathetic. following this blog :)

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  9. Jackie27 March 2011 at 03:33

    you really cant, i mean, language is evolved. so if the population want to evolve this way... wow, haha enough said

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  10. Unknown27 March 2011 at 03:34

    hahah exactly my thoughts! thanks for sharing mate!

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  11. Darkkal27 March 2011 at 03:39

    The further we evolutionize our vocabulary, the harder it is to go back to our roots I.E. old england. I can barely understand old english now, just think 40 years from now my grand children would never be able to get it!

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  12. Mike27 March 2011 at 03:44

    Yuck...

    Well, good to know my kids won't have to ask me what ROFL means ;)

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  13. Brandon Sample27 March 2011 at 03:49

    That is pretty pathetic, I don't understand why we are trying to dumb down our language.

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  14. botji27 March 2011 at 04:52

    Language is developing process, it changes with every year. Considering how often you hear these abbreviations on tv I don't think it is such a bad idea to add them.

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  15. Crose27 March 2011 at 12:10

    Making it into Oxford is rather pointless - there's numerous and copious amounts of acronyms out there used with the same frequency as various internet chatspeak phrases are. Why aren't those categorized in the same fashion?

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  16. Jay27 March 2011 at 12:28

    Lame. Very lame. Watch the English language die. DX

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