A nation of NEDs

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― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Goodbye English. I knew you well.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

james joyce eat yr heart out!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely I am not the only person who opened this thread thinking it was about My Bloody Valentine...

― kate, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Ack. I feel so old.

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Txtng is gr8 u r all gay.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I think txting jumped the shark when it served as a round on University Challenge.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

What has all this to do with non-executive directors?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:20 (twenty-three years ago)

and what will our own Ned make of all this?

'the kids' are obv reading their joyce but not their tolkien.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

"They don't write letters, so sitting down to write or type an essay is unusual and difficult. They revert to what they feel comfortable with - texting is attractive and uncomplicated."

Oh FUCK OFF you bloody ponce. They're ILLITERATE MORONS.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:47 (twenty-three years ago)

It's just another symbol of the disgraceful decline of "Great" Britain, like asylum seekers, alcopops, Gareth Gates and criminals being allowed wreak havoc on the streets while the upstanding moral citizen is being persecuted by the namby-pamby, cous-cous eating, politically correct liberal metropolitan elite.

What we need is a war, that'll sort this generation out.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

But Matt, we're not going to war with "this generation" mores the pity.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Send the little buggers down the mines then.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Hang on - surely at 13 kids should not still be writing What I did in my summer holidays essays?

― Emma, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

especially not seven months after they'd taken place

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Judith Gillespie's son was in the year above me at school.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I think writing an essay in txt is every bit as imaginative as writing a book without using the letter E.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

It Takes a Nation of Raggetts To Hold Us Back.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I think this is just some lazy non-news rehashed by some bored hack.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Does anyone use that level of text slang, ie "CWOT", ":-", "FTF"?

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

and what will our own Ned make of all this?

I ponder duly.

It Takes a Nation of Raggetts To Hold Us Back.

I'm not a good police force.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Said person = me. I was trouble-maker child who would do stuff like this to annoy teachers.

Whatever next though, an American poet writing everything in lower case without punctuation from the viewpoint of an insect?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Puh-lease!!

― Sarah Hotnights (coco), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

neds.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

texting is attractive and uncomplicated

Obv it's not uncomplicated if the teacher can't read it. The whole point of it is to make it too complicated for the normals to quickly get, isn't it? Anyway, I'm guessing the student is actually pretty clever and just did this to have a laugh at the teacher.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I love that essay, it's like reading Chaucer.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's blame it on Chaucer please.

― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 04:24 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

In da bginnin god cre8d da heavens & da earth.

I don't think "da" is recognised txtspk, is it?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 7 October 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

I don't know, my little sister uses it quite a lot. As she's thirteen I'm sure she's more up to date in these matters than I am.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 7 October 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

I wonder what Raggett thinks to this? ;-)

― Vince, Friday, 7 October 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

You might want to read the post I made earlier.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 October 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

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