OMG! FYI, the OED is like all TMI. Can we still be BFF? LOL.

reply to post by PsykoOps


oh, I think we, as a species, hold ourselves back in a variety of ways.

Listen to Amused to Death by Roger Waters. It's frighteningly accurate.

here's the second half of the last song, to give you an idea as to what it's about:

And out in the valley warm and clean
The little ones sit by their TV screens
No thoughts to think
No tears to cry
All sucked dry
Down to the very last breath
Bartender what is wrong with me
Why am I so out of breath
The captain said excuse me ma'am
This species has amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
Amused itself to death
We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
We ohhed and aahed
We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death

reply to post by JakiusFogg


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Originally posted by unityemissions
Lazy punk kids technologically innovate?!

sort of tongue in cheek but the reality is, many of the things we use today are the result of someone not wanting to get up and do whatever it is that we now do sitting down. (movie rental, email etc).

Originally posted by unityemissions
You perceive them as being lazy, but in fact they are very active. They just don't seem to be so based on your way of processing information.

physically, yes. anyone who sits around thinking "there has to be a better way to get pizza, a movie, smokes and porn delivered to my bedroom than going out, meeting a girl, purchasing smoked, taking her for pizza and taking her home" is, to some degree lazy.

don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for the innovations, all of them. I'm just saying, having had the experience of actually doing something to get what I wanted or needed, I understand the process.

there's a new website that launched recently and it's sole purpose is to create fake girlfriends who will post on your various social networking sites. I'm serious. someone was so damned lazy that getting a girlfriend proved too much work so, instead, he created bots to post on facebook.

and he'll make millions because there are millions just like him.

Originally posted by unityemissions
I guarantee you're a J. You just can't appreciate the strong Ps way of being active, it seems.

I cannot confirm, nor deny my being a J, or a P because I haven't a clue what they stand for.

reply to post by Crakeur


You are absolutely right. We do hold ourselves back alot. But considering that we have made it into the information age then language comes as a very big setback if it's inefficient.

reply to post by JakiusFogg


Those are old specs.
They weren't POSs ATT.

reply to post by PsykoOps


if we have 100's of languages on the planet, doesn't that create a sense of inefficiency? if we all spoke one language, we might all get along better.

if nothing else, we'd be able to order bacon wherever we went.

reply to post by Fractured.Facade


You forgot

hypertext transfer protocol colon forward slash forward slash.

But maybe that's just unnecessary!!

Originally posted by Crakeur
reply to post by PsykoOps

 

if nothing else, we'd be able to order bacon wherever we went.

Except in the Middle East.

Is there Kosher bacon?

reply to post by Fractured.Facade


Bacon is kosher in my household

reply to post by Crakeur


Esperanto failed where txt has won it seems.

Surely that says something for cutting corners!!

simply put

Lasas vizaĝon ĝin, neniu scias tion, kion la halo ĉi tiu estas, malgraŭ tio, ke estis devus ..i esti la ununura mondo lingvo.

reply to post by Crakeur


That's absolutely true. One inefficient thing is so many languages.

reply to post by SLAYER69


Man you make my head hurt

I cannot say I use a large amount of text wording. when texting and on some internet usage I use lol and have used brb. When texting (just started that last year) I use things like U instead of you, or UR instead of you are or your, I really do not use a lot of it.


I think people forget the beauty of language itself in trying to simplify everything. Then again in a way that was sort of "predicted" in the book 1984 in the form of "newspeak". The over simplification of language destroys it.


Raist

reply to post by Fractured.Facade


Turkey bacon according to a jewish friend of mine. I am not covinced

Originally posted by TheStev
There are 'words' when it comes to playing scrabble

That's true! think of the complications it makes in scrabble, OMG LOL WTF ETC, some of these are made of some high value letters and some don't even require a vowel. Irrelevant I know, but I'm picturing grade schoolers all over the word spelling out WTF on a scrabble board and then proving their dad wrong by looking it up on the oxford online dictionary.

reply to post by RSF77


as I mentioned earlier, they're listed as abbreviations in the dictionary and, ergo, they cannot be used in a proper game of scrabble.

of course, in an effort to make scrabble more appealing to the every dopier youth, the makers of said game have altered the rules to allow proper nouns so, now, when my daughter puts Beyonce down, I'm going to have to allow it.

Personally, the addition of these 'words' to the dictionary bother me a great deal.

I used to manage a store (a certain fast food chain) and on a daily basis we would receive applications from teenagers. Upon reading through their cover letter and resumes, I would find txt speech littered through the whole application, that absolutely blew my mind. To submit an application for employment using txt speech just perplexes me, and they would call the store to genuinely inquire as to why they were not successful, amazing..

reply to post by Raist


Why would over simplification of language destroy it? If you compare modern language with ancient english then has it really gone for the worse?

reply to post by Crakeur


Why not, I was allowed ACARS in a scrabble session. Even though it is technically an abbreviation, it stands as a noun for a commercial avionics system!!

reply to post by PsykoOps


I agree. I am fascinated with Dickensian English (C 19th) I find the use of prose astounding and quite beautiful. I wish sometime we still talked like that

I here they still do on Pitcairn Island, but then they also sleep with their nieces, so not a good thing may be.

Try seeing the new version CGI of A Christmas Carol. It's in the original prose as written by Dickens.
It's Awesome I srsly had vision of young'uns sat there trying to figure it out. with faces like WTF??

Jeez I'm at it now./ DAMN YOU OP!