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From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 07:54:20 +1000
Message-ID: <wOJm9.44993$g9.128257@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>

I am indeed a old fart, thinking as I do that the day Mr Bowie produces something half as decent as the Serenade No,10 in B flat major K.361, we might be on to something (incidentally, where have all the "greats" gone???? Maria? Britten? Toscanini? I think I was born about 35 years too late. But Richard Foote's OK, then).

OTOH, I don't want to become like the French.

Er, let me qualify that (actually, I needn't!). I wouldn't want to see language regulated and "approved". Provided we all know what we're talking about, it seems to me that abbreviations are fine.

gr8 m8 is good Aussie slang updated to the 21st century, I suspect.

What annoys me far more is perfectly sensible Englishmen (or colonials) suddenly behaving (and talking) as though they'd just come off the Texas ranch. What the heck does "cool" mean anyway?!

But it's all a losing battle, I think. Everytime I install any software package that worries about 'locales', guess which locale is *always* defaulted to? Why, 'United States', naturally. My Windows installations always seem to think they should be running Seattle time by default. And do you know how far it is to scroll from the "U"s to the "A"s?? At least the UK only has one or two spaces to travel. We Aussies have a mile to scroll!

Don't get me wrong: I love America. I think it vibrant, broadly speaking moral, and hilariously optimistic. But I'm fed up with being assumed by all software to be a Yank. The only thing worse would be to assume I was French (Crécy and Agincourt have to count for something, I think).

And I point-blank refuse to SMS like anything other than the kewel Aussie bloke I've become, M8.

Bugger.
HJR "Rauf Sarwar" <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:92eeeff0.0210021332.53d2f7b1_at_posting.google.com...
> tim.kearsley_at_milton-keynes.gov.uk (Tim Kearsley) wrote in message
news:<725736ef.0210020131.22229305_at_posting.google.com>...
> > Norman Dunbar <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote in message
news:<E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA702B9BD7B_at_lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk>...
> > > Is it just me, or does anyone else get totally p*ss*d off by all the
> > > current trend for really irritating and poiintless abbreviations, for
> > > example 'plz' or 'u r' etc. Those sodding modile phones have a lot to
> > > answer for - and none of it good.
> > >
> > > Sorry - bad morning already - kernel rebuild failed :o(
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Norman.
> >
> > Norman,
> >
> > No it certainly isn't just you! This whole "culture" of stupid little
> > abbreviations which has grown up with the explosion in mobile 'phone
> > usage really p*sses me off too! I think the sad thing is that the
> > people who use this cr*p and perpetuate it think that they are really
> > "cool" (or some other such dozy expression)!
> >
> > Tim Kearsley
> > Database Manager
> > Milton Keynes Council
> > (An old f*rt)

>
>

> If you want to blame someone for this "slang of slang of slang", then
> it would be services like AOL with Instant messages Bull****** and
> those pretty little emiticons that drive you nuts.

>

> But I guess we are all guilty of accepting some part of this dumming
> down phenomenon. I have seen plenty of IMHO's and AFAIK's in this NG.
> :)

>
> /Rauf Sarwar
Received on Wed Oct 02 2002 - 16:54:20 CDT