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by **FatBoy** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:25 pm

Can some techie out there write a text speak filter so I can have any clue whatsoever what Jene's on about? I'd write one but I'm too busy working/surfing Nope.

by **Jene** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:36 pm

what?!!? i dont even speak in txt that much.....n its mostly readable :cry:

by **rob f** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:33 pm

its not the worst i've seen

by **chrisecurtis** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:57 pm

How about a filter to expand the dubious "txt" abbreviations into proper words, then two thumbed typists would not have to change and we might be able to read what they wrote? Worth a few hours of hacking but it will have to wait till August before I can think about it.

Jene has done 7 txtspks in the last two posts!

by **FatBoy** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:12 pm

Jene wrote:what?!!? i dont even speak in txt that much.....n its mostly readable

So that's no use of caps, and "and" has an "a" and a "d" either side of the "n". Although that was a relatively readable one I have to admit.

by **Becks** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:16 pm

Don't even start me on the apostrophes...

by **Simon** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:26 pm

Becks wrote:Don't even start me on the apostrophes...

Or the use of an ellipsis.

by **Becks** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:33 pm

Well yes, it's one thing I have no idea how to use appropriately. It just looks so much like an idea tailing off that I can't resist.

by **i-pod** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:49 pm

Oh please... let's not go down the apostrophe and ellipsis cul-de-sac (or cul-des-sacs, or culs-de-sac?). Before you know it we will be looking into the finer points of the hyphen versus the dash and arguing the appropriate use of the Oxford comma.

Recommend "Eats, shoots and leaves" by Lynnne Truss if you, like me, are punctuationally challenged

by **Becks** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:51 pm

You're the second person to recommend that to me today! And this is the week after our tutor gave us each a grammar tutorial when we thought we were writing a critical analysis of a research paper. I'm getting worried!

Why don't they teach us grammar anymore?

by **Simon** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:05 pm

i-pod wrote:Recommend "Eats, shoots and leaves" by Lynnne Truss if you, like me, are punctuationally challenged

Really should get round to reading more that the first chapter. However I did not think much of it based on that much. Also has a critical (though American centric - which affects some of the points) review of said book, which makes a few good points about it.

by **samsonite** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:11 pm

hang on a goddam minute! the elipsis is, and has always been, mine...

by **i-pod** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:54 pm

Really should get round to reading more that the first chapter. However I did not think much of it based on that much.

True, its rather self-congratulatory in places, and you wouldn't want to read more than a chapter per sitting, but it's compulsory reading and very affirming in a geeky sort of way if you are an editor or proof-reader.

by **chrisecurtis** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:36 pm

Her writing style irritated me but it is definitely a book worth the effort - a bit at a time. I learnt a lot (most of which I have now forgotten!) and when she warms up she does take you into some hot debates and shows how punctuation is evolving and maybe some new usage makes sense and will eventually win out. (I totally support her views on modern use of the dash - as you can see from many of my posts, though it can be hard to produce proper em dashes in html!)

by **Michael** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 9:28 am

theres a word filter in the admin panel - takes a while to set up, but i'd do it if i had access - hint

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