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jon_efc

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Cry Babies of recent weeks about my so called... Excessive Text Talk !! (hmmmm bollox in my opinion, but oh well)

anyway... i noticed today... a lof of these critics using the same shortened terms for football players and stuff regarding the league and venues !!

Isnt this double standards? i mean, it doesnt bother me so much, but a newbee coming in here.. not 100% up on his football etc.. will be overly confused !!

Sorry , just thought its rather double standards.. at least my text talk isnt half as bad and confusing as naming a player by initials (and sometimes not even this)...

as at least my words resemble the original wording!!

I await the attack of the old farts on this thread
 
Cry Babies of recent weeks about my so called... Excessive Text Talk !! (hmmmm bollox in my opinion, but oh well)

anyway... i noticed today... a lof of these critics using the same shortened terms for football players and stuff regarding the league and venues !!

Isnt this double standards? i mean, it doesnt bother me so much, but a newbee coming in here.. not 100% up on his football etc.. will be overly confused !!

Sorry , just thought its rather double standards.. at least my text talk isnt half as bad and confusing as naming a player by initials (and sometimes not even this)...

as at least my words resemble the original wording!!

I await the attack of the old farts on this thread

There is a difference in calling someone AJ (which is his knickname) over saying Fink, which is just bad English. Also VDM is far easier then spending good energy spelling the [Poor language removed]'s complete name.

And its Bollocks not Bollox.

The reason why it pisses me off is we are ruining the English language, before long we will all be in-coherrent monkey's again carving drawings on cave walls.
 
isnt that the same case as what i was coming up with tho??

it is quicker and far easier to right the odd words shorter which are still easy to understand !!

and its not just AJ that people use nicknames for ... MCF was another i remember today... an outsider wouldnt have a clue who that was !!
 
isnt that the same case as what i was coming up with tho??

it is quicker and far easier to right the odd words shorter which are still easy to understand !!

and its not just AJ that people use nicknames for ... MCF was another i remember today... an outsider wouldnt have a clue who that was !!

Well AJ you have to say is not the same text speech. But MCF? who is that McFadden? I don't say that. I try and type as I speak in reality.

But consider this, if you said this:

L8R M8 CU TOMOZ

Its not fair on the cross section of fans here, who are a) not in their teens and b) don't have English as their first language.
 
when have i ever wrote like that ghost?? i dont remember a single occasion!! in fact i dont even text like that !!!

i say tomoz, but thats what i say when i speak anyway, just my slang !! but other than that ... none of that has been said !!

MCF was said on numerous posts today !

I just think i was overly attacked the other week for something that in reality was far under the crime !!
 

to be fair, in the match thread, forum members are trying to update for the masses and so quick points that convey how the match is going are necessary.
 
when have i ever wrote like that ghost?? i dont remember a single occasion!! in fact i dont even text like that !!!

i say tomoz, but thats what i say when i speak anyway, just my slang !! but other than that ... none of that has been said !!

MCF was said on numerous posts today !

I just think i was overly attacked the other week for something that in reality was far under the crime !!

Look mate, its not a massive problem, and I was just reflecting on text speech in general. But can you understand how it may be difficult for some people to read. Just type normally and then there are no problems, and for the record its not just me who felt that it was inappropriate.
 
I just think i was overly attacked the other week for something that in reality was far under the crime !!

maybe a mild point, but hardly the full flame wars that have been witnessed. if you felt so badly about it, why bring it up again? :s
 
what im saying is, the way im writing has not changed since i first joined...

but because i was new i was attacked.. but now i have been around a short while and managed to stand up to the big guns when they attacked me.. its all died down now !!

as for during match days people updating and so a need for quick text talk being needed...

i clearly said last week that i am in work but trying to quickly post on here so i done it as quick as per possible.. and the reply to that was...

It doesnt take much longer to do proper english !!
 

Well AJ you have to say is not the same text speech. But MCF? who is that McFadden? I don't say that. I try and type as I speak in reality.

But consider this, if you said this:

L8R M8 CU TOMOZ

Its not fair on the cross section of fans here, who are a) not in their teens and b) don't have English as their first language.[/QUOTE]

Mae hynnu yn wir Ghost, point da iawn. (y) :D
 
maybe a mild point, but hardly the full flame wars that have been witnessed. if you felt so badly about it, why bring it up again? :s

im not the type to back down.. im just making a point as and when it has come up !!!

after the text talk i was then attacked for numerous other things that happened...

Like i updated the 3 fernandes threads with the same news bulletin, which i understand now can be frustrating for some, but i was only trying to help..

and the response i got was why dont you leave etc !!

Also i was attacked for some of the posts i done !! just making it obvious how some newbees can feel on this board

i noticed Foreverblue got a similar welcome. saying if fernandes wasnt signed in 24 hours he would be banned etc.. when he was only trying to do good
 
work and the match arent the same.

i made a point earlier about re-reading posts before submitting them, i feel this rings true here.

matchday commentary is a different animal though, quick bursts of action can happen one after the other - remembering and writing this as fast as possible for the benefit of readers isnt always so easy.
 
The only person i've seen say 'MCF' is sodding well you.

http://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/showpost.php?p=33810&postcount=12

I made that remark about how it doesnt take much longer but your saying double standards, I dont use text talk apart from on msn or myspace when i talk to my friends because they understand that.

no i used the same initials as another few people during the game on the reading thread !!!

i no i use text talk on brief basis.. i have never denied that.. just think newbee's get attacked for no apparent reason on here
 

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