do u undrstnd da txt spk?

[Akane]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3854612a10,00.html

NZQA approved "txt tlk" in exams, W.T.F?

[Adydas]

$&#$%, Hopeless!!

[Chickenman]

you are $&#$% kidding me


Welcome to NZ,
leave your standards at the door.
Our whole education system,
is $&#$% like a whore.

[Silent Knight]

Excellent... I thought the NZ school systems were $&#$% enough as it is compared to where I come from...

Haha sux to go to school in NZ. The country where your kids get taught in school to be a dumb $&#$%'n gangsta/hippie.

[mr pad]

"I think text messaging is one of the most exciting things that has happened in a long time. It is another development in that wonderful thing we call the English language," he said

He = $&#$% idiot. Thats the most $&#$% up thing I have read all week.

[Brick]

Bashing should be made legal to people who think of that sort of shit

[sergei]

They should introduce IQ test in the goverment. ie as not let in goverment say anyone below 140 IQ.
I'm sure right now the goverment will average at about 50 (and only because of some small amount of smart people left in there).

[bluemaumau]

dw it was $&#$% as soon as they started ncea

[Mr.Phreak]

It's not that big of a deal, even back in bursary days as long as you could prove to the marker that you had a clue, you got the marks. If the marker can't read or understand what you've written then you're $&#$%, if people want to take the chance to save writing a few letters, then go for it.

And I doubt you'll get away with using it at all in English exams without suffering heavily on marks

[Dell'Orto]

Thats disgusting, it really is. I feel sorry for my grandkids

[4000GT]

Text speak is for retards.

[Alycia]

Thats disgusting, it really is. I feel sorry for my grandkids

I agree - When we are all decrepit these will be the people running the country

[pc]

They should introduce IQ test in the goverment. ie as not let in goverment say anyone below 140 IQ.
I'm sure right now the goverment will average at about 50 (and only because of some small amount of smart people left in there).

But then they wouldn't be 'representing the people'

[Lith]

They should introduce IQ test in the goverment. ie as not let in goverment say anyone below 140 IQ.
I'm sure right now the goverment will average at about 50 (and only because of some small amount of smart people left in there).

But then they wouldn't be 'representing the people'

And they'll also be able to make idiots out of ~98% of the population and probably be harder to be spotted when doing their villainous scheming by the brighter ones, so get all sorts of evil things past us.

Also, text speak should in absolutely no way be endorsed. I see where they coming from with recognizing famous quotes etc - I remember doing a test at school where they used incorrect/missing/jumbled words.... nothing wrong with staying with that though. Text speak just best be sooner forgotten as far as I am concerned.

[geishaboy]

I hate this country

[Adamal]

Christchurch teenager Cathy Adank, a Year 11 student at Avonside Girls' High School, said most students would be surprised to hear text language was acceptable in some exams.

"That's great. You'll just be able to get your ideas out quicker. It's so much faster; you can get through the exam faster," she said.

Close friend Harriet Prebble did not agree. "I think it's a terrible idea. When you start progressing in the world, people judge you on the written language, and spelling things incorrectly seems sloppy and lazy and gives a bad impression," she said.

What a load of bollocks. If you need to write shorthand to 'get your ideas out quicker', then chances are you have no command of the proper English language in the first place. Txtspk requires you to think about how to shorten words. All that time you 'save' writing in txtspk will be taken up in thinking on how to write in txtspk.

Her friend Harriet is onto it though. Thats exactly what popped up into my mind. The real world doesn't use txtspk. You don't like it, go dig ditches for a living.

[Mr.Phreak]

This all reminds me of a Bill Hick's show about burning flags

[MrOizo]

Some peoples responses on NZ Herald is quite interesting...

so far not one agreeing with it!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story ... d=10409945

[Mr.Phreak]

Whats even more interesting are the number of mistakes in the responses

[FXGTV]

Ive done exam supervising at Heretaunga college for the past two years and its amazing how dumb some people are. To help pass the time i read the students exam scripts when they walk out early...honestly, one chick decribed a book she read like this 'Yeah, so lyk, i lykd dis book cause da lead guy ws lyk real honest n he ws funi...' etc etc etc. I almost fell off my chair laughing. Txt speak in exams? WTF is this world comming to?!?!?!