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[JayK]

I wlil sepak as i peslae. Cambridge did a study the brain can read word that have the 1st and last letter in the right place, the rest of the words can be as they are.

[Jim_Cross]

Yes, but it is very hard to read when you get there and their mixed up, and when you miss out half the letters in a wrd jst bcs it tks slghtly lss tm t tp y lzy cnt

[fostero]

Yes, but it is very hard to read when you get there and their mixed up, and when you miss out half the letters in a wrd jst bcs it tks slghtly lss tm t tp y lzy cnt

pmsl!

[ShinyAndy]

I wlil sepak as i peslae.

Cambridge did a study the brain can read word that have the 1st and last letter in the right place, the rest of the words can be as they are.

Alternatively, the brain just shuts off and can't be arsed to actually read something that makes no sense. Why type nonsense when you are educated ?

[JayK]

wrd jst bcs it tks slghtly lss tm t tp y lzy cnt Jim please show me where i have spoken like that!?? Andy simply because i cant be bothered. Cant believe how much of a fuss guys make. Guess its a VX thing!

[MarkH]

I was sent a CV for a software engineering position via email yesterday and the two-line covering email included the sentence, "Please let me know if u would be intersted in taking it furthur." Now I can ignore the spelling of "furthur", but what's that "u" all about?! The World's turning...

[JayK]

Mark i work for an multi national I.T company, who the largest government contract in the u.k, even we r like that! even wen our 3rd party contractors send us an update they wright extremely shorthand! best stop saying stuff before i breach my contract!

[ShinyAndy]

for an multi national I.T company

they wright extremely shorthand!

Shame your shorthand is longer than the proper word though isn't it ?

[JayK]

so i made a mistake, stil readable, for one to understand, i think and type to fast for my own gud

[SPLAM]

If you can write properly, why do you bother typing in such a pathetic way, you say you can't be bothered, that is just fuking lazy.

[Huntsman]

I have to say, any CV's I've received with poor grammar or spelling have ended up in the bin. To me, it indicates a person who's either badly educated or too lazy to bother doing it properly. Either way, not somebody I'd want to work for me. When it comes to "text speak", I think I'm probably too old to be down wid da kidz (i.e. I've been through puberty). Thorney, can we get a spellcheck on here? It would help us foreigners, at any rate

[ShinyAndy]

can we get a spellcheck on here? It would help us foreigners, at any rate

I tried to implement something so that it would make this new abhorrent slur on the Queens english readable to everyone, unfortunatley it caused some "issues" in Valhalla

[TurboTomato]

I have to say, any CV's I've received with poor grammar or spelling have ended up in the bin. To me, it indicates a person who's either badly educated or too lazy to bother doing it properly. Either way, not somebody I'd want to work for me.

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[cheeky_chops]

ffs people - this is the vx220 forum, not a job interview or CV clinic. You better face it that as the car becomes cheaper, its falls into the grasp of younger people whose text and email style is differently - i dont chastise my brother when he sends me a text saying "c u l8r m8" Let him/them post how he wants. If you dont like it, done read it. Simple

[ciderbooze]

ffs people - this is the vx220 forum, not a job interview or CV clinic. You better face it that as the car becomes cheaper, its falls into the grasp of younger people whose text and email style is differently - i dont chastise my brother when he sends me a text saying "c u l8r m8"

Let him/them post how he wants. If you dont like it, done read it. Simple

[Jim_Cross]

ffs people - this is the vx220 forum, not a job interview or CV clinic. You better face it that as the car becomes cheaper, its falls into the grasp of younger people whose text and email style is differently - i dont chastise my brother when he sends me a text saying "c u l8r m8"

Let him/them post how he wants. If you dont like it, done read it. Simple

But texting is very different to writing an e-mail. "Txt Speak" is generally used in texts because of the character limit on a text. Writing in that way in an e-mail is just pure laziness.
I bet I could type as quickly properly as I could using text speak. If you need to type quickly, learn to touch type - I did! And I am 100% sure that whoever I am sending it to will be able to read and understand it a hell of a lot quicker.

I work for a very large multinational financial institution, and I have only once received any form of communication in text speak, which was an e-mail from an outsourced partner. We put a stop to it immediately; I've got better things to do with my time than try to decipher whether someone meant "there" or "their" and whether they actually meant to type "cud", or whether it was a typo.
If I started sending e-mails to clients or even other internal groups using text speak, I'd get pulled up on it straight away. Clients would perceive me either as a lazy git or a chav, neither of which is good for business.

Text speak is becoming a serious problem among young people; I read a little while ago that exam boards are increasingly seeing essays containing it. I really that a lot of kids will be in a situation where they don't even realise they're doing it. In 20 yrs time do U reali wnt 2 B reading newspaper articles rittn like dis?

[MarkH]

Of course, the one thing we can't deny is that change is inevitable. The english language will change (whatever happened to "thou"?) and maybe it will soon be "correct" to spell 'you' as 'u'. Anyone spelling it in full will be an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy. But not just yet eh, especially on a CV (from a candidate with a First Class degree too!). Anyway, wasn't Saturday a lovely day for driving the VX?

[vxr36]

QUOTE (Huntsman @ Jan 29 2005, 18:38 )

I have to say, any CV's I've received with poor grammar or spelling have ended up in the bin. To me, it indicates a person who's either badly educated or too lazy to bother doing it properly. Either way, not somebody I'd want to work for me. 

Well, i agree with you entirely. However, I notice that you seem to think the plural of CV requires an apostrophe.....

[Huntsman]

Well, "CV" is the abbreviation for "Curriculum Vitae". The apostrophe therefore stands in for the deleted "itae".