Wash ,'War Stories'
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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.
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.
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?
What Jessica Said.
but man, the idea of answering a question on a quiz or test with textspeak? Absurd.
What if it's an essay test with a 140 character limit for the answers?
Back in the day, we'd just write ? for ones we didn't know.
Yep, me too. I didn't want to give the impression that I'd just forgotten to answer the question.
What if it's an essay test with a 140 character limit for the answers?
Hahahaha! That'd be AWESOME.
What if it's an essay test with a 140 character limit for the answers?
Now that's just funny and I may use that on a worksheet for next week. Answer the following question in 140 characters or less.
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.
I'm with Plei.
What if it's an essay test with a 140 character limit for the answers?
Would answers copied from another student be preceded with RT @smartypantssittinginfrontofme ?
I would never occur to me that it would be okay to use textspeak on any sort of exam. Or anything where I wanted to be taken seriously. I mean, with my peers, sure, but not something I'd do with my boss unless it had been made clear that it was okay previously. I see a teacher the same way.
I had a 7th grade English teacher that would mark the answer wrong if we wrote "a" instead of "A" on multiple choice questions.