atw: Re: Great Mate vs Gr8 M8
- From: "Matthew da Silva" <mdasilva@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:34:02 +1000
Sorry to be obtuse. The observation relates to notions of self
determination and identity. I don't know what 'a phase' means really,
but certainly it is clear that young people usually try to generate
solidarity by appeals to notions of originality. It's a kind of
community building exercise, I think.
Matthew=20
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Hi Matthew
How does this affect us or relate to us? How do I integrate what you
have
said into my awareness of how to relate to a member of the texting
generation? Are they being dumbed down? Or are they morphing into a
different type of human being? Or are they just going through a phase?
What is happening to human beings - and in the process, to our notion of
what communication is?
ck
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Nikki - FWIW, Pierre Bordieu is useful. His theories of language stem
(he says) from a quibble with Saussure. He posits that all language is
'loaded' with political connotations ("politics begins at home").
He thinks that the imperative of linguistic orthodoxy, say, in France
(his country of origin, but this would also apply - more visibly because
more recent - in, say, Italy) is allied with the notion of the 'nation
state'.
Matthew da SILVA
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Subject: atw: Great Mate vs Gr8 M8
Hi Everyone!
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Yesterday as I was trawling through the Macquarie Dictionary, I noticed
a page at the back of the book dedicated to SMS English (I often refer
to it as: Smenglish.. and I got to thinking about why some techwriters
pull up our noses at Smenglish (or do we?) and why? Consider the
following example:
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