"prolly" is not a word

I am on a fibromyalgia chat alot and when it gets going we don't have time to worry about spelling or sentances or capital letters, we call it fibrospeak lol. It is so fast and easy that I catch myself typing that way in normal emails or say on here, so I have to go back and fix all the bad spelling and break it into sentances and such. Sentances is that a word? :laugh: Tom

 

I read through that like it was normal english but I've been online since I was 13 and there was a point when all of my friends would type like that, even I would type like that but more to make fun of these friends than anything else.

 

and you own a company????? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

good one!!!! :TU: :beer

 

Come work "the hood" with me sometime....we'll learn some new words every night :af:

 

It never ceases to amaze me though...Its ok to use prolly or 10,000 other screwed up words on here,but put Gran"D" Sport in a thread,you better duck....lol
Pat

 

Yardley!!

You forgot to add when to use whom vs. who!!!!!!!!!!! :grin:

 

Slightly off topic, but is it just in my area where people take something out of the freezer to "unthaw", or is that American-wide???

Carl

 

I've heard both unthaw and dethaw... both of which mean FREEZE! :rant:

 

I think you mean foibles. :Brow:

I think two/too/to and there/their/they're should be considered when talking about a living language. Just because a language evolves doesn't mean anything goes. Just because a word is popular now doesn't mean it will be part of the evolution. It may just be in style.

I typically don't mind shortcuts or bad spelling in actual chats. When someone is typing an email or posting to a bulletin board, though, I would think they'd invest a couple seconds to proof read.
However, I don't mind at all if English is the person's second language.

On this board it only really bothers me when someone is criticizing another as being ignorant on a given subject, yet unable to do so with correct English - talk about pots and kettles.
My favorites along these lines were the threads about English allegedly being the official language in the USA.

Unthaw - t(w)/o(o) funny.

 

Bouy, i swear, youins are just rippin up this here thread. Yall need to unthaw, it is that some folks learned different that all.
:rant:

You all prolly are just stealin ideas from some grammary book!!

Well i think i need to leave now having had said my piece! :Smarty:

(nuttin hard about grammar, and cyferin the language near as i can tell)

 

i have read about alot of ebayers who claim to have "payed" for their item, immediately after they " bidded " on it.

 

I knew I prolly shoulda kept my mouth shut, er, fingers off the keyboard.... ou:

Just give me one of these: :spank:

By the way, I wasn't trying to be critical; I just wondered if some people truly thought 'prolly' was a word. Didn't really think it was much of a shortcut....

Maybe I should just chill out! (or is that unthaw out?)

 

Im guilty. I say Probly...

I type probably, probably.

Im just too lazy to say it properly :grin:

 

Anybody got a hot water heater in their house? I just have a water heater, why are you wasting money heating hot water? :Brow:

 

"Excellent Condition......Needs Restored"

The "Needs Restored" always bothers me but then you take a look at what they're selling

uzzled: Ummm Yeah uzzled: You needs to Re-Store that Hunk-O-Junk back in barn where you found it o No: :rant:

 

Youins are killin me! Go to night school already and get learnt something.

 

Perfect. Seriously. You may speak one way, but you know the correct manner.

Attending Cleveland State University, I see many inner-city students who speak the slang yet write very well. However, one middle-class suburban student spoke and wrote the slang - not knowing "bof" is spelled "both." ou:

 

Thank you! I have an engineering degree but that whole there/they're/their thing drives me crazy some days! I know it's a little thing but sheesh, I notice it way too much.

 

A couple of my thoughts-
Most older guys raised in Chicago don't beleive in the letter H. In the city H is silent. "That tree is uge". " A joke may lack umor" etc. Their is a a problem with H when it is the second letter used. Three becomes - tree and so on.
Now out in the suburbs where I work its all about saving time and energy when speaking. SUP? - What is up. Where you stay? - Where do you live. and the ever popular aarite - alright or that is ok. It amazes me when a young middle class kid speaks the same language I do, but I can't understand him. But, I live with it, laugh alot, and weep for our country's future. Tony

 

Steve said:
"It is "I COULDN'T care less" not "I COULD care less." If you could care less, than the spectrum of value of the topic is that it COULD be the most important thing in your life (or not, but we just don't know). If you "COULDN'T" care less, than the topic has absolutely no value to you."

I'm right with you Steve....that one bugs me.
I try to explain it to people that if you COULD care less, then you actually care. But that COULDN'T care less means you care very little if at all.(which is what they are trying to say)

I usually get a blank stare.......

Bruce