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The over use of abbreviated English
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30.       doudi94
845 posts
 31 Aug 2008 Sun 08:26 pm

 

Quoting sonunda

 Yes,doudi you´re guilty but ur gr8 2 !!  {#lang_emotions_lol}

 

thx sonunda ur da best!!lol

31.       CANLI
5084 posts
 31 Aug 2008 Sun 09:32 pm

 

Quoting sonunda

 Yes,doudi you´re guilty but ur gr8 2 !!  {#lang_emotions_lol}

 

 Ok just to be sure,

gr8 2 ...is great too ,no ?

32.       sonunda
5004 posts
 31 Aug 2008 Sun 09:40 pm

 

Quoting CANLI

 Ok just to be sure,

gr8 2 ...is great too ,no ?

 

 Yes!

 

33.       Deli_kizin
6376 posts
 09 Sep 2008 Tue 12:13 am

 

Quoting incişka

why should a "u" for "you" be a problem? Everybody knows what it means anyway... We arent here for academic reasons...

 

 I don´t agree. U is an obvious one, but once we allow everybody to use abbrevations it will go from bad to worse. Sometimes there are posts that I have a hard time to understand, it only makes me understand that the person who wrote it is probably sixteen and writing hAlfLy CapİtAlS on her msn account. I use abbrevations in sms too (because its cheaper ), and sometimes a U or an nd may slip, but there are people who type their entire posts with abbrevations. It is rather tiring to read, and annoying for people who arent fluent in English, or who come here to learn. No, we arent here for academic reasons, but have a look at people´s reason to use TC. Many Turks have the reason to ´Help other people with Turkish and to learn English´.

 

We don´t ask for flawless, perfect grammer, schoolbook English.

34.       sonunda
5004 posts
 09 Sep 2008 Tue 03:45 pm

What about Turkish speakers who do E-T translations using no Turkish characters/letters giving the excuse of not having a Turkish keyboard or saying ´it doesn´t matter´. It drives me mad!

35.       tunci
7149 posts
 21 Jan 2011 Fri 04:49 pm

 

Quoting sonunda

I don´t know if it affects anyone else but I´m going crazy reading posts with abbreviated English,for example ´u´ for ´you´ ´ur´ for ´your´ or even worse ´you´re´! This is ´text(sms) speak´ and whether it can be understood or not has no place on a language forum. I don´t think that Turkish speakers trying to improve their written English find this helpful.

 

i too agree with you sonunda..but its getting so common using this way ..i admit that i too had used those ways time to time..but as you said its not helping neither english language nor english learners..

 

36.       inatcicadi
2 posts
 21 Jan 2011 Fri 11:20 pm

 

Quoting sonunda

What about Turkish speakers who do E-T translations using no Turkish characters/letters giving the excuse of not having a Turkish keyboard or saying ´it doesn´t matter´. It drives me mad!

 

I have confess I was terribly lazy and never used Turkish characters (and it only takes one mouse click for me to switch over {#emotions_dlg.get_you})  I learned my lesson when I typed a particular word with i instead of ı and promptly offended the heck out of friend.  I use text talk for SMS because I know my friends understand it.  Posts on a forum, business writing bla bla, my audience is unknown and it defeats the point of communication when the reader has to parse out my meaning. 

37.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 22 Jan 2011 Sat 06:04 pm

It became a habit of me I want to get rid of. But you should understand this. People always prefer the shortest way to express themselves. Because of that for example maybe a hundred years  later  "u" can take the place of "you" in written language.



Edited (1/22/2011) by gokuyum
Edited (1/23/2011) by gokuyum

38.       sonunda
5004 posts
 31 Jan 2011 Mon 04:52 pm

 

Quoting gokuyum

It became a habit of me I want to get rid of. But you should understand this. People always prefer the shortest way to express themselves. Because of that for example maybe a hundred years  later  "u" can take the place of "you" in written language.

 

I agree-but thankfully I won´t be around then!  (just turning in my grave)



Edited (1/31/2011) by sonunda

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39.       sonunda
5004 posts
 31 Jan 2011 Mon 04:59 pm

 

Quoting tunci

 

 

i too agree with you sonunda..but its getting so common using this way ..i admit that i too had used those ways time to time..but as you said its not helping neither english language nor english learners..

 

 

IMHO your posts would be vastly improved if you used upper case ´I´ where required tunci.

 

40.       zeytinne
596 posts
 31 Jan 2011 Mon 07:50 pm

 

Quoting gokuyum

It became a habit of me I want to get rid of. But you should understand this. People always prefer the shortest way to express themselves. Because of that for example maybe a hundred years  later  "u" can take the place of "you" in written language.

 

 Bad bad habit! So get used with me to correct your "we turks" mistakes everytime when I see them. {#emotions_dlg.bigsmile}



Edited (1/31/2011) by zeytinne

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