Boy has discovered Facebook - and enjoying talking to his mates on it - and a girl whose initials are written on his rubber???? Anyway he asked me today what does 'kwel' mean? I didn't have a clue and neither did him. I desperately tried to work it out, something beginning with kiss or kick - huh, but nothing came to mind. I began to think about swalk and norwich and hoped that wasn't it.
What does 'kwel' mean - you probably know but it means 'cool' yes 'cool' so one perfectly good four letter word with a pretty unambigious meaning is replaced with another slightly confusing four letter word. Why??
Most of the text type speak I hate - l8r, lol, etc - I do occasionally use IMHO which is really old fashioned but when my younger mates, or friends kids send me messages I can't read I just get frustrated and angry. For god sake we have predicted text use the full word and hey, how about some punctuation - it's great and makes us all take a breath.
Sometimes being dyslexic makes words confusing enough but this language, well it alienates me and I hate that.
So you see I am just old and grumpy and just not happening and down with it (or some such thing).
4 comments:
facebook intimidates me.. lol.. to many people "looking" at ya,, lol
I almost get the Kwel thing. If you say it out load it sounds like cool with an accent. I don't get most of these text abbreviations would rather people write what they mean in proper english.
I am a bit of a hypocrite because a few of them like lol have crept into my vocabulary.
I have to admit I have been known, on an occasion to use 'lol' - I think this is due to hanging round with my brother and his friend who would often say 'LOL' as opposed to, 'that's amusing' or will say 'lol' whilst laughing. odd, huh? But a lot of these crazy acronyms are well above me. Also, yep, agreed with Mog - grammar is there for a reason - without it people don't make much sense.
But for any future 'young people speak problems' try - http://www.urbandictionary.com/
:D
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