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 Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:03 pm
15. I think it's sheer laziness; young people typically don't see the point in spelling this out.
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:21 pm
Dusti_Love Well, I feel really old now! I'm 27, but soon to be 28. razz Heh, I'm nearing there myself, so don't feel alone. Don't feel bad though. My friend studies Psych and read in the book that we are not technically adults until we are at least 32. We have a ways to go!
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:43 pm
I'm 14, a freshman, and I consider myself to be a very literate person. I've been a reader since I was 4 or 5, when I learned to read in the first place, and I've pretty much always took it for granted that I'll be an author. (I write, but I currently make no attempt to get anything published, at my age. =P) Which is becoming an issue, but that's besides the point.
I think one reason why my generation tends to use text talk, is that they think it's faster to replace "you" with "u" and so on. In MMOs and such, that can be extremely neccesary, to type fast. And in chats some people don't have a lot of time and blah blah blah. At least, I think that's originally what made text talk so common in teens. Then it just became an easy thing to do, an immediate reaction sort of thing.
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:11 am
15: I also started to read at a young age, and before that my dad would read to me in bed... does that count?
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:16 pm
I am turning twenty on the 12th, which makes me feel older than what I really am.
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 2:22 pm
I'm 18 here, always been literate and, uh, since many of you seem to mention it, I also learned to read (by myself) when I was four. Is that common among literates? xp
I feel almost sick seeing people older than me with English as their mother-language and they can't type to save their lives. I mean, isn't it a sort of a wake-up call for one to realize that so many foreigners are so much better at the language you've been hearing, writing and reading all your life? o.o
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:34 pm
Great place to make a first post in this guild. =) I'm a junior in high school and I'm 17. I find the reason people don't type out their words is because they're either
a) too lazy. it's the internet. Chatspeak is everywhere.
or
b) unfortunate enough NOT to have picked up the habit of typing complete or semi-complete sentences when they learned to type. (I type with 3 fingers and I still have the decency to type full sentences....)
This disappoints me. ='(
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:48 pm
I am 19. I learned to read and write when I was 5. I love to read though I'm not a very proficient speller. Most of the time I use a dictionary to spell the bigger words but when I'm on the computer I use spell check.
Just from what I gleamed from reading these posts it seems that those who learned to read at an early age are more literate then their counterparts. I don't know if this is true but that is my theory.
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:29 pm
I am fourteen, and I've been reading since four or five (although I remember it being really hard for me). I've been literate since I started going on the internet (which was actually around third grade...^^; ). I would be in ninth grade if I went to public school, but I go to a private school that fits to your specific level of learning. I study with the seniors, and the only requirements to graduate at my school are: turn in all required assignments, at least a 20 on the ACT, and be at least sixteen years old. So I'm thinking I might graduate next year (I turn fifteen in May).
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:39 pm
Interesting question. We should not be telling our real age on this website. I will not reveal mine. I lady never tells her age. eek lol ninja
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:59 am
I'm seventeen years old, and I too have been reading from a very young age. Coincidentally, English is my worst course in school. Why? Laziness. If I'm failing English, because of laziness, then the reason so many people are illiterate on the internet must be because of laziness.
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:57 pm
Smoozle 15: I also started to read at a young age, and before that my dad would read to me in bed... does that count? Fifteen as well, except it was my mom that read to me at night.
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:09 pm
19.
Literate at a late age (didn't learn my apostrophies and There/their/they're until I was 16). I blame the English education system. *glares*
Don't read much either.
I very much went through my txt spk phase, where I'd be typing and actually delete letters to make it into txt spk. gonk
But, all past and gone. I struggle to even talk on MSN without perfect type. Then if I do turn lazy it's only on my capitalisation on sentance starters.
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:28 pm
I'm fifteen and didn't learn how to read until I was *GASP!* ten! I was a slow learner. . . but at least I'm a stellar speller(teehee!)! I read a lot of books and play a lot of computer/videogames. I'm homeschooled also(not sure if this makes a difference?. I usually have to spell things for middle-aged adults(30+), it's kind of awkward. . .
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:22 pm
I'm 21. I don't know exactly how old I was when I started reading, but my mother and grandparents used to read to me all the time, and I would follow along in the book. They said eventually I had memorized the books they read to me most frequently and I would go get other books that I didn't know and I recognized the words that were in the ones I knew. When I got to kindergarten, my teacher was shocked that I could already read; I thought it was normal to be reading at age 5. XD
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