This is an IMglish message left byRowan, the Gifted Typist's Chief Cheddar correspondent.
He was commenting on the IMglish Lesson 1 post.
What does it mean?
Lo G,Nice 2 c u 2 r in2 de imglish, I'z had lots of
practice wiv this txt 4 yrs lol. Altho in rl u never get 2 write like this (thk god)but in gm ppl alwys talk this way. Anyway bb4n t4tb cya l8rs m8 x.
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Hello Guy, nice to see you too are into the imglish. I’ve had lost of practice with this text - 4 years – laughing out loud. Although in real life you never get ot write like this (thank god) but in Instant messaging people always talk this way. Anyway – bye-bye for now. Thanks for talking – bye, See you later mate (hugs (or kisses))
Thanks TB for englightening us.
And how would we say this in IMglish
"Well done tagbagger. ONce again your inner 12-year old has rescued is from our ignorance."
This IMglish is the way kids write. My son never writes a complete word or sentence on the computer when IMing with his friends. No wonder he can't spell.
Sorry, I have to disagree with you anonymous. I wondered that myself for a while, but I don't feel that IMglish is the reason some kids can't spell. Perhaps those kids aren't reading hard copy as much, perhaps they don't receive "grammar" as part of their "whole language" experience in school. Today's kids are much smarter than we give them credit for. Of course it looks like they can't spell, they don't want us to see what they're saying to their friends! But, when push comes to shove, many of them can write papers that are written quite eloquently and they are much more insightful than the generation before them because they are a generation that is thinking way outside the box.
1) English has been the most successful language on Earth because of it's ability to borrow/adapt to changing circumstances - if a language fails to do this - well just see La Francophonie (sorry, but it is the definitive "language police" example)
2)T4GrB4GR is teh 1337 r0xx0r, TB roolz - all your bases are belong to us...
And there you have it ladies and gentlement, Tagbagger roolz. (and if you don't believe him, just ask him)
That's an interesting point, YAM. Youth and oppressed cultures/peoples have always used language to limit the control of those with more power.
Think of Cockney rhyming slang or rap-speak.
If you look at TB's Imglish translation, you can see elements of rap in it. So rap-speak and Imglish get fused to create a new language that adults (except TB and Rowan) don't understand.
I'm sure there is a PhD dissertation being done on this as we speak.
If for some strange reason someone was in desperate need of English to L33t translation
this may be of help, although it produces basically pure, literal, transposed L33t, not IMglish
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