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alien boy
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If English didn �t evolve or change then we would be speaking, reading & writing a totally different form of the language...
just compare the following:
Sod Egges: Seeth your Egs almost hard, then peele them, and cut them in quarters, then take a little Butter and put it in a platter upon your egges.
Fygges doth stere a man to veneryous actes, for they doth auge and increase the seede of generacion. And also they doth prouoke a man to sweate: wherefore they doth ingendre lyce.
or my personal favourite recipe for a hangover cure... for someone else!!!
Wi� �on �e mōn hine fordrince. Genīm swines lungenne gebr�d 7 on neaht nerstig genim fīf sn�de simle.
Or maybe Chaucer?
- Whan that Aprill with his shoures sote
- the droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
- And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
- Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
- Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
- Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
- The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
- Hath in the Ram his halfe course yronne,
- And smale fowles maken melodye,
- That slepen al the night with open y�
- So priketh hem Nature in hir corages�
- Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
- And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
- To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes;
- And specially, from every shires ende
- Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende,
- The holye blissful martir for to seke,
- That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.
I read recently that SMS/text language was actually allowed in certain examinations in England... I suppose it could also be related to literacy issues & some of the organisations & arguments for a new modernisation of the language.
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16 Jun 2009
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Olindalima ( F )
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Hello Ivona
I am on your side. Kids are so imaginative when it comes to discovering these codes. I feel it is important ( and I consider it is also teaching English ) to teach them what " LOL " means, for example.
Anyway, we have to talk the way they understand us, if we do talk/write they will feel more confident about us, teachers. Traditional and correct language is also important, but nowadays there are places for both.
BTW, you all know
" 2teach is 2love 4ever ."
Hugs ( I love these topics and comments )
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16 Jun 2009
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roneydirt
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No matter how we try to hold the tides back the waves of time come like a thief in the night washing what was and what is away piece by piece till all has changed...
As a history teacher you should see the books the way they were written 20, 50, 100, 200 years ago and see how much the English language has changed and evolve. There was a site by Webster Dictionary with a couple others making lists of words that have become... in my words extinct and what they evolved into. But alas I have lost that site as well the site that had a listing of each decade worst cuss words.
Do I agree on using computer chat and text language in the classroom... Only very limited as a special lesson into modern slang with a discussion on when it is appropriate and not. |
16 Jun 2009
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cheezels
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Last week two of my teenage students were writing sentences on the white board with verbs that they had chosen.
One wrote something like:
I watched my bff on television last night.
I said to her.... my bff? What �s that?
She replied "My Best F$%king Friend" (which is a TV show with Paris Hilton... sigh)
My response (while I was trying not to show I was a wee but shocked that she had said the F word so confidently....) was to then point out that bff was an abbreviation and therefore the best way to write it was My B.F.F with the letters in capitals with period between each one. 
(I had to admit I was unable to figure out what the F �s stood for when I saw the advert on TV.... now I know....you learn something everyday eh?)
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16 Jun 2009
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Ivona
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@ Olinda
Shhh! Just shhhh! I never even got up from the desk! I never left the building!  (Btw, i don �t have a laptop, and i iron once in a blue moon. And the blue moon comes when hubby goes red in the face for not having his shirts or pants ironed. )
As to the anecdote Cheezels shared, i get shocks like that myself quite a lot. Paris Hilton is popular, as well as the abbreviations, and it �s all because the society (in a way) made them like them. As Leavis, a literary critic, said (paraphrasing):
There are elaborate mechanisms for stealing of our desires before we have the time to name them. They are reduced, processed and sent back to us, and we end up getting what we like and liking what we get, that is, what we are supplied with. (Just think of the commercials for things you don �t actually need at all, but that convice you that you do.) The society then boasts of being free and democratic, giving an individual an honorific place withing itself, which in the end proves to be an illusion.
We, the enlightened-smart-dedicated-creative teachers  , should endeavour to bring back the stolen desires to our ss... oops, i meant �students �  .... and make them ... (now you finish the sentence. the first one that does it will get a point for it.  )
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16 Jun 2009
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