Dumbing down of language...

[OICURMT]

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

On a semi-serious note, the problem is that the younger (and less well educated) generations and their obsession with their sentence length and vocabulary purely because of their own lazy fingers

Quite a lengthy thread now... so you may have missed the TED video link I provided. Slash I think education and the new world order of construtive language may not be entirely dependent...

[sheeny (Al)]

Originally Posted by Solitarian

It would help while searching on this site

True! That is a real plus for correct spelling.

Al.

[hobbit]

Originally Posted by kinetic

For a few seconds today, Steve was the man!

A smokin' hot female of the species saw me typing today at Uni
and said, in perfect Gen Y speak, " wow, like, omigaaawd, U R like a reeeally
good typist Steve", as I fumbled through my two finger typing....

Then I realised, this was a comment from someone who could mega-multi
task.
IE: Drive, change lanes while texting, emailing, doing makeup and smoking a cigarette
in 4 lane traffic.

Steve

As a Gen Y myself, I must point out how inaccurate this is. I do not speak like an early '90s valley girl.

[Peter Ward]

I know I'd said no more from me, but recent posts have jogged a memory of a quote from Vincent Sorrenti.

Vince is a nice and very funny guy, who was MC at a recent RFS fund raiser I attended in Sydney.

According to Vince, a little known fact is the word shark, is also a contraction of distinctly Australian origin.

Early Australian beach-goers, when presented with the up-close-and-personal sight of a big fish with multiple rows of sharp teeth, often uttered: sh**!!! *ark !!!!! all while briskly leaving the water.

[Hagar (Doug)]

It's OK for use edumacated peoples.