Re: OMG NORWICH!

On Dec 12, 3:05 pm, the Omrud <usenet.om...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter Duncanson (BrE) wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:06:42 -0800, Purl Gurl <purlg...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    SMS language abbreviations are starting to have an impact
    on the English language, according to a leading lexicographer.

http://www.itexaminer.com/text-speak-creeps-into-english-language.aspx

Children and young people of our world are
becoming illiterate idiots.

They are learning new ways of representing spoken words.

There is an error in that article:

    If someone says you are a book for example it means that you are cool.

Wrong! It should be:

    If someone says you are book....

"book" is an adjective.

OK? TTFN.

Yes, well it's an epigrammatic way of saying KNICKERS OFF READY WHEN I
COME HOME. It's the initial letters, you see, of each word. I know
'Knickers' is spelled with a 'K'. I did go to Oxford - that was one of
the first things they taught us. Yes. And in a perfect world it would be
KORWICH. But it doesn't have quite the same idiomatic force I think as
NORWICH, does it?

In this age of ours (to channel PG's rather bizarre and tortuous
constructions), when women are so strong and self-confident, maybe it
means NUTS OUT READY WHEN I COME HOME. I didn't go to Oxford, but
when I did my Computer Science degree they covered acronyms quite
thoroughly.

g2g

Will.
.

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