three exams in two days makes for no posts since tuesday
As the more quick-witted among you will have gleaned from this post's title, I recently wrote three exams in two days - one on Wednesday and two on Thursday. I am only now able to walk again; my eyesight should be returning shortly. In the meanwhile, here are two examples of how language can go terribly, terribly wrong:
success is a ladder
true pink loverr
A friend of mine who is a high school teacher said that once or twice he's received essays with this kind of English: the rampant abbreviations and emoticons, disregard for punctuation rules, and misspelled words that form the backbone of chatroom communication. I guess these people are in a hurry and don't have time to write out "anyways" once a paragraph.
See also leetspeak, or Internet slang or something.
success is a ladder
true pink loverr
A friend of mine who is a high school teacher said that once or twice he's received essays with this kind of English: the rampant abbreviations and emoticons, disregard for punctuation rules, and misspelled words that form the backbone of chatroom communication. I guess these people are in a hurry and don't have time to write out "anyways" once a paragraph.
See also leetspeak, or Internet slang or something.
