Author Topic: Is the English language just easy to slack off?  (Read 1726 times)

I seriously have to know, I notice so many people in the English language be lazy and leave characters off like "wut are u guys doin", I want to know if people in other languages do this, do French people just slack off words and ask their friends if they want to hang out like people do in text messages. I don't have anything against people that do this, I just wonder if people in the English language are just lazier than foreign languages.

And if you are English, don't give me some stuff that you speak another language, unless you grew up with that language, you don't know how it's used on a daily basis.  If anyone speaks Spanish, French, or whatever language that isn't English, can you please tell me..

Also, don't complain about how I'm a grammar-national socialist or some stuff like that, I couldn't give a forget more if you spell like a jackass, it's not a huge deal.

Every language has its slangs and shortenings. Not as much as the English Language though.

I've wondered this myself. I've thought about how much we do crazy things with English with Internet terminology and all that.

English has hundreds of ways to say the same thing. Its highly complicated, probably more so than other languages. You can flip a sentence around and rearrange the words and the sentence will still make sense. You can remove letters from words and still have them make the same sounds. Its confusing.

English is pretty bizarre in all it's rules.

And when you go into the land of slang, it's even weirder.
It seems that the English language, while quite complex, is actually very easy to extrapolate to reading any other takes on it.

For example, how many people can read Leet Speak, or text language, despite never being taught it.

And that even carries over to regional takes on English.
For example, it's a common argument between UK citizens and Americans over whether using Americanisations is acceptable.
But regardless of whether the UK likes it, we can all read American English. It has weird rules and twists that don't quite fit the way we use it, but those changes are entirely understandable.
And that change is even more different when you compare UK English to the English of places like Australia, or India or Hong Kong.


What it also comes down to is that English is very much an international language.
And because of that, these changes to the language which seem lazy (like text speak) are shared all around the world.

And foreign languages do have their own slangs and their own versions of text speak and whatnot.
The only reason you don't think about it is because those languages don't tend to be as common around the world, so unless you're living in a place that uses that language as a primary language, you're not likely going to experience it.

The whole world is as lazy as each other.
It just so happens that English is the most spread language, so it's so much more prominent.

i know this is offtopic, but sir dooble, it's like, everytime i see your posts it's always a block of text lol
it's not a bad thing, it's cool actually

I do speak another language that I grew up with and never have I made up or used any slang terms in it, I don't even know if there exists any.

i know this is offtopic, but sir dooble, it's like, everytime i see your posts it's always a block of text lol
it's not a bad thing, it's cool actually
If something interests me, I tend to get into it and write a lot to explain all I mean.

If I'm not interested in something, I don't tend to post, so most of my posts end up really long, unless I'm just making a joke.

Also, I use spaces between lines way too often. :P

the first rule of English is that there are no rules

yeah, i speak spanish and in some cases its worse than english


yeah, i speak spanish and in some cases its worse than english
ola k ase

the first rule of English is that there are no rules
i before e except after c all day every day

the first rule of English is that there are no rules
first rule of english: don't talk about english

firth rule of englith: alwayth talk in lithp