Teen Iowa girl wins US texting title..$50,000

[Blaster86]

[Wookie]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Its awesome that we're raising a future generation of technology reliant ######s. One day my grandkid will come up to me and say Grandpa Crunch, can you look at this report that I did on WWII, and all the facts will be wrong because he used Wiki as his informational source. I'll tell him to go to the Library and actually do research and he'll ask me what a Library is. Then I'll shoot his parents and his teachers.

It will probably be more like

"hey grmps, i no wev nvr mt, & u dn't rmember who my mom is,but can u chk this doc i txtd u, its on ww2 for skool"

[Bob]

Originally Posted by Wookie

It will probably be more like

"hey grmps, i no wev nvr mt, & u dn't rmember who my mom is,but can u chk this doc i txtd u, its on ww2 for skool"

Gramps: "Sure kid, just give me a second to write you out of my will."

[transplant99]

I really do think it's going to be a huge problem moving forward as far as basic spelling abilities.

Just reading internet boards, including this one, it is truly atrocious how poorly many young (and likely some older as well) people have a poor understianding of the way to spell things.

I understand everyone makes mistakes, but the stuff i mean is so far beyond all that.

[CaptainCrunch]

I'm thinking your giggling and assuming that nobody is going to pick up that clever piece of posting.

[The Yen Man]

I will be eternally pissed if the day comes when "your" officially replaces "you're".

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I'm thinking your giggling and assuming that nobody is going to pick up that clever piece of posting.

a simple

"I C WUT U DID THUR!"

would have been more inline with this topic.

[Joborule]

Originally Posted by transplant99

I really do think it's going to be a huge problem moving forward as far as basic spelling abilities.

Just reading internet boards, including this one, it is truly atrocious how poorly many young (and likely some older as well) people have a poor understianding of the way to spell things.

I understand everyone makes mistakes, but the stuff i mean is so far beyond all that.

I saw what your did there.

[CaptainCrunch]

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

I will be eternally pissed if the day comes when "your" officially replaces "you're".

I h8 u

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I h8 u

What's funny is that when I posted that, I didn't even see your post yet.

[Engine09]

Originally Posted by transplant99

I really do think it's going to be a huge problem moving forward as far as basic spelling abilities.

Just reading internet boards, including this one, it is truly atrocious how poorly many young (and likely some older as well) people have a poor understianding of the way to spell things.

I understand everyone makes mistakes, but the stuff i mean is so far beyond all that.

Yeah, a lot of what you see on message boards are not just typos, just general misuse of words and incorrect spelling.

You have to wonder if these people ever read books. After a few pages you tend you run arcoss those "tricky" words like they're and you're, wouldn't a person catch on?

In the end, the king will be the guy who just doesn't crap his pants.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

[Gozer]

Originally Posted by transplant99

Just reading internet boards, including this one, it is truly atrocious how poorly many young (and likely some older as well) people have a poor understianding of the way to spell things. .

[malcolmk14]

I'm proud to say that in my 1200 or so posts on CP, you'd be hard pressed to find maybe five spelling errors.

I am of the younger generation, but I pride myself on being articulate and accurate when I'm communicating with someone.

I text a lot, but it's really rare when my texts have a spelling or grammar error. I get a lot of comments on it from friends.

[Clever_Iggy]

Originally Posted by malcolmk14

I'm proud to say that in my 1200 or so posts on CP, you'd be hard pressed to find maybe five spelling errors.

I am of the younger generation, but I pride myself on being articulate and accurate when I'm communicating with someone.

I text a lot, but it's really rare when my texts have a spelling or grammar error. I get a lot of comments on it from friends.

I read your post extra close to make sure there weren't any spelling errors.

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Originally Posted by Locke

That $50k wont even put a dent in her phone bill. When she grows up and has to get a job to pay for that crap it'll really cramp her txting average.

Its tough to text your BFF when you're serving me my fries.

I'm sure she has some kind of plan the allows unlimited texts......I know I do.....I pay like 5 bucks a month extra for unlimited texts......I say I text 10-15 times a day.

[flip]

I have never sent a text in my life and don't plan on doing so in the future. I've also never had a facebook, nexopia, myspace or any other stupid account.

I do follow Trent Reznor on Twitter and find it hilarious that he posts every 5 minutes to tell the world he just took a dump but other than that I hate most so called networking sites.

[mikey_the_redneck]

I dont own a cell phone for the simple reason that I do not want to become one of these texting junkies.
People do not own their phones..............their phones own them.

I would take the money if I were that chick, but I would not be proud of myself.

[Flamesguy_SJ]

Originally Posted by flip

I have never sent a text in my life and don't plan on doing so in the future. I've also never had a facebook, nexopia, myspace or any other stupid account.

I do follow Trent Reznor on Twitter and find it hilarious that he posts every 5 minutes to tell the world he just took a dump but other than that I hate most so called networking sites.

Haha, I had totally forgotten about Nexo. It was like a Western Canadian training camp for teaching girls how to take MySpace pictures.