I can't take it anymore. Part 2 (sentence, British, quote)
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From Huffington Post's comment section today. They're discussing books! How fun!
For me I didn't problem with it I loved it but I can't do Grapes of Wrath it's too hard, everyone's different. I can't get pass 50 pages lol embarrassing in a way and not that I don't enjoy Grapes but it's just too much turns my brain to mush.
excatly ! some people are such snobs , you can read different books that`s not going to reduce your intelect .
(I wish I were making up the restaurant "discussion!" Blerg.)
I'm finding more people speaking in "text speak" and it drives me bonkers!!! Most are people who don't even text but continually speak the letters, " OMG" or "LOL" and I don't get it!
I'm finding more people speaking in "text speak" and it drives me bonkers!!! Most are people who don't even text but continually speak the letters, " OMG" or "LOL" and I don't get it!
LOL is almost a word in itself to me. Hard to imagine having to stop and spell out laughing out loud! OMG is also one I don't mind. I much prefer it with just the letters and not spelled out. The ones I do mind are those that are a mystery and I have no clue what is meant.
One of the first things I learned after being online was lol and back then texting was in the future.
I'm finding more people speaking in "text speak" and it drives me bonkers!!! Most are people who don't even text but continually speak the letters, " OMG" or "LOL" and I don't get it!
IMHO, this sort of thing started before the texting era. ISTR learning some new abbreviations on usenet in the 90s. Some of them were so clever they had me ROFLMAO. I don't think I used them when speaking, IIRC, but I know people who did. I still don't text, BTW.
nobody gives a hell of beans what i write for.soft as an angel high on her cloud never thought halos could scream out loud
wisdom is fleeting it's hard to say
why i bother every day
yet i try to be patients- -a woman who has a poetry page on facebook.
Since when? English is a relatively new language to the Scots. The most traditional dialect of English comes from southeast England.
Northumbrian Old English had been established Scotland as far north as the Firth of Forth by the end of the 600s, a good 13 centuries ago. Since then it spread to most of the central, eastern, and northern parts of the country including the northern isles such as Orkney by the 15th century.
While it has increasingly become influenced by more standard English dialects in the last few centuries, it was minimally impacted by Norman French, unlike more southerly dialects of English, thus it retains much of the character and vocabulary of the English as spoken before the Norman conquest in 1066.
Anyway, the English of southeast England is pretty much the least traditional dialect of English having been the most cosmopolitan, receptive to outside influence (primarily French), and most innovative in terms of both vocabulary and accent. In fact, many of the signature elements of the British accent such as non-Rhoticism and other elements of what are considered Received Pronunciation developed in southeast England within the last 100 -150 years and spread as an elite affectation by speakers of other dialects of English both in the British Isles, Australia, and even some eastern coastal U.S. areas.
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OMG is also one I don't mind. I much prefer it with just the letters and not spelled out. The ones I do mind are those that are a mystery and I have no clue what is meant. 
