this article makes me so sad for the american youth, also kind of completely squicked out: students use IM-lingo in essays.
there are just so many things wrong with that. so many, many stupid things wrong with that! bleh.
Fourteen-year-old Brandi Concepcion, a pupil of Austin’s, said wit, da and dat — used in place of with, the and that — sometimes creep into her homework.
“I write like that in the rough draft, but I try to catch the mistakes before I turn in the final draft,” she said.
ok a.) where are these retards parents? why aren’t they smacking some sense into their youngins, huh? b.) how is it they don’t get caught with these kinds of mistakes until the turning-in part of the homework? what does that say about our educational system and c.) that’s fucked up!
i absolutely hate, loathe and despise im-speak. which is “slightly” different than 1337-5p34|<, but not by a whole lot. fuckers.