Today I continue being a bitch

[pandaemonaeum]

Yesterday I joined a debate on a local internet message board. The board tends towards flamey, and childish. I put up some of my thoughts on the fashion industry, in response to something posted by a regular poster. Looked like he/she was posting chunks of questions for a coursework essay.

Someone cut a single comment of mine, replying with ROFLMAO. Then they underlined it and issued some vague threats. I posted back, challenging them to back up their argument. Today I went back there, and the poster is saying I flamed her, and mis-read what she said. WTF? I've invited her to report me to the mods. She said I was 'too quick to flame people' (actually, it was "u r 2 quick to flame ppl"). LOL!

So continues my campaign for clarity in posting on the internet. We have a rich and varied language, and yet we reduce it to abbreviations and text speak. I've done it twice myself above. We are losing the beauty of our language in a barrage of baby talk, reducing its complexity to include the lowest common denominator. You go onto message boards and people cannot spell, they speak in text abbreviations, and they use strange and complex abbreviations to replace a compliment like 'That's funny!', which only takes a second more to type. And don't even start me on grammar or punctuation - my feeling is that these things are rapidly becoming an endangered species in light of the poor level of education the majority of people I converse with on the internet have received. Sometimes I need to read things aloud to understand them, they are so poorly written.

Now I have finished my grump :) I eagerly await everyone taking the piss and posting back to me in text speak! :D

Comments

[pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com]

Exactly. She can't even be bothered to use the 'quote' feature on a message board, or basic HTML tagging, so I am at fault. How stupid is that? It's so ignorant and illiterate. I spent 7 years at a Catholic primary school having spelling, grammar and punctuation hammered into me, and now children are too 'delicate' to be criticised. I simply do not understand this.

You know what else bugs me? The nanny state telling people they cannot spank their children, and the silly twits who say 'all smacking is abuse'. Please. My mother beat me with a leather belt, starved me, and locked me in a cupboard. That's abuse. A quick tap on the backside is a reprimand. If more of these ill-mannered, badly behaved children were reprimanded, they might learn some basic manners and behave better. I think some children get by fine without ever being smacked, but some children need more physical discipline, and it's never given these days.

[(Anonymous)]

I couldn't agree more, I wish to god they'd bring back corporal punishment in school.

When are they going to realise that the downturn in discipline in schools is directly linked to the rise in youth crime.

Feral....*8)

[pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com]

I think they have realised, because youth crime became a huge problem so quickly after the abolition of corporal punishment.

However, can you see this administration ever admitting it is wrong?

[misskitten.livejournal.com]

Half the problem with kids today is because parents arent allowed to disipline their children properly. My Mum and Dad both knew how to slap the back of my legs when I was little if I were being naughty. It was never hard, but it didnt half sting! I would never have accused them of abuse. It certainly stopped me being naughty though.

Nowadays, kids can accuse their parents of false imprisonment if they are grounded! There was one 15 year old boy that called the police from his mobile phone when he was grounded and told to stay in his bedroom because he had done something really bad. He told them that his parents had imprisioned him in his room and werent letting him out. The police turned up and arrested the Father for False Imprisonment!

For crying out loud!

[czol.livejournal.com]

And that's just with parents. There was a newspaper story a few weeks ago, where a teacher was complaining it was impossible to discipline kids, because the brats are such complete little tossers they're impossible to handle, & if they do try to discipline an ill-behaved child, he or she complains & mummy or daddy go to a lawyer & sue, because the child's civil rights are being compromised!