The dot thickens: Eng lit. now 2up2d8 4words

[WellThen]

SilverMaple

This... is... degrading! scream This is to help students?!! LET THEM GODDAMN LEARN PROPER ENGLISH LIKE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO!!!! Add an OXFORD PROFESSOR IS SUPPORTING THIS? eek What is this world coming to? This is not progress, we are spiralling towards decadence! gonk

Well, I wouldn't say decadence, I'd say ignorance. To me, if our society was falling into literary decadence, words would be used to their fullest, and reading would become obsessive in the mass population. That would be better then what we currently have though...  

[lola_siannodel]

Oh no! It's begun!  

[~Golden Angel flame~]

eek eek eek eek eek eek I don't believe it.  

[Dark Master Pineapple]

Excuse me as I go somewhere and cry.  

[Jill_Frost]

DarkElf27

Hey, is anyone reminded of "Fahrenheit 451" by this scenario? confused

I am! Me! Me! Pick me!

Well, the height of really rich irony will be translating Fahrenheit 451 into [txt tlk]. How come there is no emoticon for puking? I need one here.
-> exclaim <-  

[Patron with a Mission]

O.O I was happy until I saw that. I believe I will sleep until this nightmare is over.  

[ruddah_baggah]

There is a remote possibility that we are safe from this. Has anybody seen this happening?

At all?

The article was made November 8 2005 so in two years I must assume this has either one into full force or been forgotten.  

[SilverBellsAbove]

... I despair.

Maybe it's because I don't own a cell phone. Even if I did I probably would type everything out.

Again, I despair. What has it come to? I see 'translated' versions of Shakespeare for the 'idiot teenage audience' and I just want to flat out DIE.

Then again, I AM in an advanced English class. Unfortunately no one else deserves to be:

Mr. Dangel: Does anyone know what Cassius's motivation is when he speaks to Brutus in act 1?

SBA: Me! Ohh! Ohh! Me! *hand stretched to the celing*

Crickets are heard chirping.

Mr. Dangel: No one? Come on! I'm working too hard here! *completely ignores me*

SBA: Pick me! No one else cares! *stretches arm more*

Crickets still chirp.

Mr. Dangel: Well... how about you, Mr. Grimm?

Owen Grimm: Duuuuuhhhh.... *snore*

Mr. Dangel: *sigh* Okay, how about you, Si-

SBA's arm promptly falls off to the ground.

Class: O___o;;

SBA: crying Please pick meeee.... *faints from blood loss*

Yeah, that's why people want to txtspk books. So my arm doesn't fall off again. xd  

[The MoUsY spell-checker]

ruddah_baggah

There is a remote possibility that we are safe from this. Has anybody seen this happening?

At all?

The article was made November 8 2005 so in two years I must assume this has either one into full force or been forgotten.

You're right. This is old news. I created this thread back in 2005 shortly after I saw the article.

If you look at the dates on the previous posts, you'll see that there was almost a year between the two posts before yours.

At time of this post, there's no rule in this guild about replying to old threads (as far as I know), but in this case I think that it's time I lock the thread because if I don't, some people will reply to it and bring it back to the top, and I don't think it's a good idea to alarm everyone about old news.