Aw, that was great. But ... NO MORE TEXTSPEAK.
Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.
Willow ,'Help'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Sep 24, 2009 7:24:51 am PDT #10564 of 30001
Because books.
sarameg - Sep 24, 2009 7:25:26 am PDT #10565 of 30001
I am at home, eating lunch, having a door installed. Loki is seriously spooked. He's trying to figure out how to get in the kitchen cabinets to hide.
Hope this won't take too long.
ChiKat - Sep 24, 2009 7:26:00 am PDT #10566 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
My sister has had a problem with textspeak in her middle school math classes.
I've had that problem in the past but nipped it in the bud pretty quickly. I tell them that if they use textspeak or if I can't read their handwriting, it gets marked wrong. Simple. Haven't had the problem since I started telling them that.
Amy - Sep 24, 2009 7:27:29 am PDT #10567 of 30001
Because books.
Maybe she should have told them ahead of time, but man, the idea of answering a question on a quiz or test with textspeak? Absurd.
And what happened to just leaving blank the questions you don't get?
Jesse - Sep 24, 2009 7:29:05 am PDT #10568 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Emmett is 13! That's bananas. I am so freaking old -- I know this because I am more or less the same age I was when he was Darth Tigger.
Jessica - Sep 24, 2009 7:29:49 am PDT #10569 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Aims, if your sister hadn't spelled out before the test that she would automatically fail any test that used text speak, then I'm somewhat, make that highly, affronted on the student's behalf. You shouldn't get negative credit for something like that unless the teacher has been explicit about it ahead of time.
What Plei Said.
ChiKat - Sep 24, 2009 7:30:36 am PDT #10570 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
idea of answering a question on a quiz or test with textspeak? Absurd
Happens all the time if the teacher doesn't set other expectations.
Jessica - Sep 24, 2009 7:31:05 am PDT #10571 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
but man, the idea of answering a question on a quiz or test with textspeak? Absurd.
But the alternative would have been leaving it blank, presumably. So she wouldn't have gotten credit for that question anyway. Why should that have affected her correct answers on the rest of the quiz?
P.M. Marc - Sep 24, 2009 7:31:21 am PDT #10572 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Maybe she should have told them ahead of time, but man, the idea of answering a question on a quiz or test with textspeak? Absurd.
In my industry, we use TLA shorthand all the time, so it doesn't seem absurd to me in a class outside of English. We also communicate a lot over IM, of course.
Back in the day, we'd just write ? for ones we didn't know.
StuntHusband - Sep 24, 2009 7:31:34 am PDT #10573 of 30001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I just don't understand why spelling things out is difficult.
Of course, I'm a linguist. I spell things out in several freaky languages, just because I like orthography.