Besides, "IDK" barely qualifies as text-speak.
And maybe she was using it ironically! My friends use IDK occasionally, as in "IDK, my BFF Jill?"
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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.
Polter-Cow - Sep 24, 2009 8:08:02 am PDT #10598 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Amy - Sep 24, 2009 8:08:43 am PDT #10599 of 30001
Because books.
FYI is an accepted abbreviation in Webster's 10th Edition.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2009 8:09:09 am PDT #10600 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd totally expect to get busted for FYI in a school assignment too. I can't imagine it being appropriate. I'd also expect OK to be corrected to okay.
Jessica - Sep 24, 2009 8:10:08 am PDT #10601 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Lunch place gave me miso soup instead of salad. FAIL.
Gudanov - Sep 24, 2009 8:10:50 am PDT #10602 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
FYI is an accepted abbreviation in Webster's 10th Edition.
thk U 4 d FYI
DavidS - Sep 24, 2009 8:11:10 am PDT #10603 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Has everybody seen the spider silk fabric?
It has amazing properties but takes a million spiders and four years to make.
Clearly we need to make really enormous spiders to take advantage of their silk. Surely nothing could go wrong with Giant Spider Exploitation.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2009 8:11:28 am PDT #10604 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
thk U 4 d FYI
Argh! Stop it!
Jessica - Sep 24, 2009 8:12:34 am PDT #10605 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Surely nothing could go wrong with Giant Spider Exploitation.
You say that now, but what happens when we need their help to combat the Giant Space Fly Invasion?
P.M. Marc - Sep 24, 2009 8:13:15 am PDT #10606 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
Also, I bristle at the expectation that teachers should be the ones responsible for coming up with every possible wrong way a question might be answered.
But that's not my expectation. My expectation is that the scoring be spelled out prior to the test. Or,
I'm sorry, but this is bullshit. The student got one answer wrong. Unless the quiz is presented up front as a 100% pass/fail, she should only be penalized for her answer to THAT question. Calling her out for not being "clever" enough just seems mean to me.
What Jess Said again.
A vague disclaimer, after all, is nobody's friend.
Aims - Sep 24, 2009 8:13:29 am PDT #10607 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
She wasn't called out for not being clever. She was called out for using textspeak. If she had left it blank or put a "?", she would have probably gotten a little talk about paying more attention or asked if she needed to switch seats because she wasn't seeing/hearing/understanding things.