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Bah, humbug..

Facebook is only useful for catching stupid criminals. Time to take the internet into the back with a shotgun

Yes, but it's the conversion of nouns into verbs that really deserves punishment. I think we can all agree on that?

What's wrong with facebooking? :laugh:
When I'm googling, facebooking is as easy as 1-2-3.

Xandax wrote:When I'm googling, facebooking is as easy as 1-2-3.

You have just earned two deaths in one sentence.

I think SMSing or texting came along first, so Internet no first just make peoples talk bad.

Can we use it as an adjective?

endboss wrote:Can we use it as an adjective?

Sure. Just wear something dark, to cover the sudden appearance of blood as the Grammar Ninjas eviscerate your body.

endboss wrote:Can we use it as an adjective?

That's so facebook of you to ask that...... :laugh:

Can we shoot Twitter too?

Meh, I'd want people to learn the use of periods and capital letters first.

Ronan wrote:Meh, I'd want people to learn the use of periods and capital letters first.

That won't happen, because all the people who couldn't care about making themselves understood in a common language were long ago banished to a single island where they now enjoy international immunity from prosecution for stupidity.

That's so facebook of you to ask that......

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Ronan wrote:Meh, I'd want people to learn the use of periods and capital letters first.

imo thatll never happen fyi usin periods and capitals is so troublesome

fable wrote:That won't happen, because all the people who couldn't care about making themselves understood in a common language were long ago banished to a single island where they now enjoy international immunity from prosecution for stupidity.

Huxley really did see the future. He just got some of the facts wrong.

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I'll be tweeting about it when it happens

Xandax wrote:I'll be tweeting about it when it happens

What is this--"Come back, so we can taunt you some more?"

It's nauseating, but until some language king comes over and anoints the head of the mongrel(I wanted to use a different word but did not want to offend the almighty censor) tongue known as english as a complete language to which no more words will be added, this garbage will happen. Like it or not, google is both a verb and a noun. If this has not happened to facebook and twitter yet, it is only a matter of time.

English was never a regimented language, which is why it grew to the monster it is now. Perhaps it is too late to stop feeding it.

jklinders wrote:It's nauseating, but until some language king comes over and anoints the head of the mongrel(I wanted to use a different word but did not want to offend the almighty censor) tongue known as english as a complete language to which no more words will be added, this garbage will happen. Like it or not, google is both a verb and a noun. If this has not happened to facebook and twitter yet, it is only a matter of time.

English was never a regimented language, which is why it grew to the monster it is now. Perhaps it is too late to stop feeding it.

Oh, it definitely is. Other languages have similar issues, but whatever language becomes the lingua franca (pardon the pun) is going to be subjected to all sorts of changes. It's like a highway among other roads: the volume of use wears it down faster than everything else. Then, when you factor in the Internet as a means of remarkably quick communications, it's taking off the speed limit.

I joke about this. It annoys me slightly to see nouns being changed into verbs--it's quick and lazy--but it's not surprising, and it doesn't really lead me to homicide. Well, not usually. Not more often than once a day. What does get me are the idiots who have a strong understanding of English, but want to make others work for their meaning. So they post without punctuation and capitals, and with atrocious spelling. Or with substitution letters. Lack of communications as a means to show how "cool" they are. That's the classic definition of a bad jargon.

fable wrote:snip
What does get me are the idiots who have a strong understanding of English, but want to make others work for their meaning. So they post without punctuation and capitals, and with atrocious spelling. Or with substitution letters. Lack of communications as a means to show how "cool" they are. That's the classic definition of a bad jargon.

Oh you mean 1337 sp3ak? But how will they show how they are both clever and retarded at the same time? I find it useful actually. Not seeing anyone here indulge in that tripe showed me that I wanted to participate here.

It is kind of like a filter for bad forums. All the great discussion, none of the bad taste.