This is not intended to be a dig at any population group, just to find out what people think.

On Avsim, a great number of people use the way they talk to write. e.g  " I wanna buy the new xxxx when it comes out or I'm gonna do this or that"

Maybe I'm just too old (and English) but what happened to writing "properly", e.g. "I'm going to buy xxx or I want to get the new xxxx.?

Is it becoming acceptable to write sloppy English?

I was always taught that you write correctly, irrespective of the way you speak.

Conversation is different.

What say you?

 

 

Hey up mi duck.

thous rate mate!

Actually, I do fully agree with you, maybe, it's a generational issue?

However, a wicked post

I like to keep spoken and written English different.
Having said that, I will sometimes use a "whom" when I speak just to enjoy the reaction!! 😁

Interesting post, my friend!

Laziness, lack of education, who knows, its irritating though.

Worse for me is the way words are pronounced, it seems to spread like a disease, with individuals in YouTube videos copying each other. The girl fashion vloggers are the worst. Liddle instead of little, mishtery instead of mystery, "I" is instead of it is or it's. 

 

 

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It is a generational thing.  When I was progressing through the educational process, the written word and the spoken word were the same.  Yes, every area has it's own, unique dialect, but the translation to written form resulted in a uniform language.  I like to throw in a little dialect or horrible misspellings at times, but that is just for fun, not for anything of a serious nature.

2 hours ago, philmurfin said:

Hey up mi duck.

thous rate mate!

Actually, I do fully agree with you, maybe, it's a generational issue?

However, a wicked post

Ah. Bakewell. where the tarts come from.

(See what reaction that deliberately provocative statement receives).

25 minutes ago, IanHarrison said:

Ah. Bakewell. where the tarts come from.

(See what reaction that deliberately provocative statement receives).

Are folks from Bakewell all great bakers? 😋

I can't pass this one up Ian.  I am appalled and sometimes baffled by the current speech habits.  Even more so by the ubiquitous use of acronyms like ROFLMAO.

But that has been badge of sufferance by every generation as they move out of the stages of youth and become adults and much later cranky old men like myself.

I think nobody has said it better than Socrates.

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

Noel

35 minutes ago, IanHarrison said:

Ah. Bakewell. where the tarts come from.

(See what reaction that deliberately provocative statement receives).

Always reminds me of that joke... What’s the difference between a carpet and a good tart?

You can beat a carpet. 😁

45 minutes ago, n4gix said:

Are folks from Bakewell all great bakers? 😋

Ah!  The Great British Baking Show!

 

36 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Always reminds me of that joke... What’s the difference between a carpet and a good tart?

You can beat a carpet. 😁

Tarts!  Sounds good to me!  Reminds me of a member on another site who said he spent, at least, 60 Quid a week on cream tarts and gummy bears. 🍬

I'll be 65 in August. I was complaining to a friend about seeing the seventh phase of Shakespeare's all the world is a stage speech: "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything". He cited Jaques Lacan and said we can sit together on a bench, two old men smoking cigarettes and condemning the world. (I would have to take up smoking.) I've lost two months flying time due to one word not allowed thing after another (including vision problems) so there is something appealing about critical observation of everything. I therefore take great pleasure in joining the OP's objection.

I have forgotten what it was, though.

(I did manage Leticia-Bogota and Bogota-Cartagena yesterday, though, so that felt good after the doldrums.)

1 hour ago, IanHarrison said:

Ah. Bakewell. where the tarts come from.

(See what reaction that deliberately provocative statement receives).

There are several tarts around Bakewell, particulary at the weekends.

We also have some eminent bakers, master bakers you could say.

However, Bakewell's culinary delight is it's pudding and not tart, the tart is a Mr Kippling invention.

1 minute ago, Tim_Capps said:

I'll be 65 in August. I was complaining to a friend about seeing the seventh phase of Shakespeare's all the world is a stage speech: "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything". He cited Jaques Lacan and said we can sit together on a bench, two old men smoking cigarettes and condemning the world. (i would have to take up smoking.) I've lost two months flying time due to one word not allowed thing after another (including vision problems) so there is something appealing about critical observation of everything. I therefore take great pleasure in joining the OP's objection.

I have forgotten what it was, though.

(I did manage Leticia-Bogota and Bogota-Cartagena yesterday, though, so that felt good after the doldrums.)

Tim,

It must be the air in Illinois. At 65, you should still be relatively OK, I think I remember I was.. 

I agree with condemning the world, forget the cigarettes bit, that is so passé.

4 minutes ago, philmurfin said:

There are several tarts around Bakewell, particulary at the weekends.

However, Bakewell's culinary delight is it's pudding and not tart, the tart is a Mr Kippling invention.

There we go again, using the truth to destroy Romanticism.😆