<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/37f26381-f71b-40dd-8394-dca7aa814cc9/97B97F75-E98E-4091-B3E2-45CB70D04A9C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thestrangequark.com/?p=14" href="http://www.thestrangequark.com/?p=14" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thestrangequark.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thestrangequark.com/?p=14"><DIV id="desc">Three quarks for Muster Mark, sure he has not got much of a bark, and sure any he has it’s all beside the mark.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thestrangequark.com/?p=14"><P>I’ve ranted on numerous occasions about my feelings on ‘textese’ and how I feel that it is stamping out the <SPAN>Queen’s English</SPAN> wonderful nuances in all written languages that we have arrived at over hundreds and hundreds of years of a beautiful mishmash of cultures, quills, clashes, mistranslations and misunderstandings only to have it downsized by evil kids hellbent on using the magic of SMS in the bloody wrong way! (yes, I’m a grumpy old cat lady).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thestrangequark.com/?p=14"><P>While I still stand by my general rant I must stand corrected on the textese front because this linguist, <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crystal">David Crystal</A> says in his latest book <A href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Txtng-Gr8-Db8-David-Crystal/dp/0199544905/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218052996&sr=8-1"><EM>The Gr8 Db8</EM></A> that only only is this harmless but we’ve been abbreviating for centuries and the fact the some kids come up with abbreviations that play on phonetics etc means that they have strong language skills in the first place.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/97B97F75-E98E-4091-B3E2-45CB70D04A9C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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