LEA sks mahbawles !?

[jumpy]

Local education Authority sucks my balls.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-teaching.html

in an attempt to connect with children who are more comfortable writing and reading in the abbreviated language used in mobile phone text messages than formal English.

Perhaps if they were taught correctly in the first place then they wouldn't feel intimidated by simple english.

TXT speak is ok as a form of shorthand due to the minute size of mobile keypads and annoyingly unpredictable 'predictive text', but as a more official means of communicating it sks mah bawles! Just like the LEA who thought it would be a good way of communicating important information to young people.

Kind of like the anime/pokemon episode in South Park, where all of the kids start talking in 'anime' and calling Mr. Garrison 'Garrison San' and Mr. Hat 'Hat San' - the only way the adults could get the kids to behave normally again and not be brainwashed by the use of anime by the japanese to take over america, was to start talking anime themselves; as soon as the kids cought on to the fact than adult 'thought' something they liked was cool, all the kids droped their anime toys/style like it was a tramps gusset.

As for spending £3000.00 (that's a fifth of my gross annual income for that piece of crap?) on designing the poster, I could have done it for about a tenner and made it look less like a 4 year old had made it using M$ paint.

All of this 'gettin' dahn wit der youf innit' is, quite frankly, embarrassing. And whilst I won't flat out say it undermines the queens english, it certainly annoys the hell out of me - too many oiks who can't read, speak or write propperly in this country as it is without encouraging more 'lamer speak'.

What next? Posters about illiteracy and statistics about the abysmal standard of spoken and written english in the UK? :hmm:

[Platapus]

I don't see anything wrong with this. It is not different from using slang or jargon to connect with a specific audience.

By putting the message in "text language" it will attract the attention of the kids.

Seems pretty harmless to me.

[jumpy]

Don't get me wrong, I can see the why of it, but consider this:

Originally Posted by a teenager from another forum

i'm a teenager, and that's a hundred times more difficult to read that actual English... Is it genuine? =\

Or for further thought...Limiting language like this limits ones ability to think and express oneself, is this a deliberate action with ulterior motives? :hmm:

[jumpy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/7591523.stm

Friends of hers have been leaving messages on her page.
One friend, Chloe, wrote: "I can't belive that one of the bodys was your mam. RIP Jill Foster. I hope that the other body isnt your dad.
"An I hope they dont find any mor an your just havin a week somewer with your dad or sumink."
Another friend, Danielle, referred to Kirstie's horses - Scrumpy Jack, Breezy and Bramble - which were found dead in the outbuildings of the mansion.
She wrote: "I miss you soo much. My thorts are with you 24/7 and there are some points in the day i just wanna break down and cry.
"Life feels weird without you. Please be okay, otherwise I dunno wat ill doo. RIP Jill and Jack and Breezy and Bramble."
Her friend George wrote: "Plz b ok kirstie. We r all thinkin bowt u."
Another friend called Lucy added: "Forever in our hearts, once there forever in our lives."

I know these are just kids, but it makes them sound so childish or retarded. As one who judges an individual (certainly on the internet and in other written correspondence) and makes assumptions based on the standard of language and courtesy used, perhaps it says more about me getting older than it does about 'them pesky kids'.
Just looking at my browser spell checker - it's going mad with the above quote