What are you doing now?

smeezekitty · 02-25-2010, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianL

15 4 4 13773r 0r 4 numb3r? Shouldn't you be able to tell the difference between letters and numbers?

It says is 4 a letter or a number.

GrapefruiTgirl · 02-25-2010, 05:03 PM

OK then smarties

what word is this:

111113 ??

brianL · 02-25-2010, 05:04 PM

Yeah, and 4 is a number. Do you agree?

brianL · 02-25-2010, 05:06 PM

onehundredandeleventhousandonehundredandthirteen.

Tinkster · 02-25-2010, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianL

You don't think leet speak and text speak are improvements, do you? Why does it need improving? And how?

Exactly! All those little idiosyncrasies and incoherences
improve (SIC!) the language, as they require a well trained
brain and great memory to cope with them.

Cheers,
Tink

GrapefruiTgirl · 02-25-2010, 05:06 PM

Ehh, maybe I spellumbered it wrong. Perhaps it ought to be:

117713 ?? Arg, I don't like this. I'm sticking with normal English.

brianL · 02-25-2010, 05:09 PM

little?

GrapefruiTgirl · 02-25-2010, 05:10 PM

You got it, LbraiN

brianL · 02-25-2010, 05:11 PM

Let's all start typing phonetically, then with our different accents things can get really confusing.

brianL · 02-25-2010, 05:12 PM

Thanks, Slasher.

Tinkster · 02-25-2010, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianL

Let's all start typing phonetically, then with our different accents things can get really confusing.

Code:

         A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
                          by Mark Twain

        For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped
to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer
be part of the alphabet.  The only kase in which "c" would be retained
would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.  Year 2
might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the
same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with
"i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
        Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear
with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12
or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi
ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz
ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
        Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

=o)

brianL · 02-25-2010, 06:11 PM

grate stuf.

Tinkster · 02-25-2010, 06:15 PM

hi's a jinias

MTK358 · 02-25-2010, 07:24 PM

One thing I don't like is the way that if a sentence ends with a quote, the dot ending the sentence should be inside the quotes. That just makes no sense, because it's not part of what the person being quoted said!

Especially in technical stuff, for example:

Open a terminal and type "ls."

Wouldn't it be likely for the user to type "ls." instead of "ls" and get confused about why it doesn't work?

http://catb.org/jargon/html/writing-style.html

MrCode · 02-25-2010, 07:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinkster

Code:

        A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
                          by Mark Twain

        For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped
to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer
be part of the alphabet.  The only kase in which "c" would be retained
would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.  Year 2
might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the
same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with
"i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
        Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear
with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12
or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi
ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz
ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
        Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

I swear I've seen a variation on that, only it was twisting it to make the words sound like they were being spoken with a German accent (or mabye it was Russian?).

Quote:

Originally Posted by MTK358

One thing I don't like is the way that if a sentence ends with a quote, the dot ending the sentence should be inside the quotes. That just makes no sense, because it's not part of what the person being quoted said!

I think that goes for any ending punctuation in a sentence that ends in quotes. I do agree, though, it is a little silly.

For example: Did he just say "something?" makes it seem like the person said the word "something" as if it were a question.

Did he just say "something"? makes more sense to me (it implies that the word "something" was spoken as if it weren't a question).