Modern spelling and text speak

I think use of casual language in emotional situations may be a sign of embarassment (wondering how and what to say but wanting express sympathy; not everyone finds it easy) as well. Another reason to back off with the criticism.

Deedaa, it's not the use of cool that I find the most odd, though it's not something I say myself. It's the spelling of it as "kewl" - however hard I try I just can't fathom a reason for spelling it that way. I just find it bizarre.

It is bizarre. Younguns like bizarre. Seems like a good enough reason to me

Local market yesterday was selling game. Top of the list were "Fezants"
Pezants!!!

Like it .

Better than Brussels sprout's or Coxes apple's

If you were an immigrant or a poor 'native' reader, fezants might well make sense where pheasants wouldn't. Lateral thinking.

Chambers gives 'fesant' as anglo-french. There you go then. It's not really "wrong"

Once, in France a very attentive waiter, realising that we were vrom England, and endeavouring to be helpful recommended dough.

meaning...?

The venison was excellent

it's too easy to be superior about use of language, and too easy to sound like disgusted of wherever. I am, I hasten to add, as guilty as the next person, but try really hard not to be an unreconstructed pedant. But sometimes...

I posted this a year or so ago - driving in the country one C********s and saw a sign for Xmas trees and "holly reeves". Again, taken from local pronunciation by a poor reader, perhaps?

Venison usually is.

thatbags, yes, I know, and understand, that young people like to be bizarre, and that's fine, it's a prerogative of the young. But this was my sister, aged 50! Am I being an old fuddy duddy, haha?

I'm not offended nina

MrsSB, well... since you asked... . Why shouldn't a fifty year old be bizarre as well as a, say, twenty year old.

@MrsSB - Spelling 'cool' as 'kewl' is sometimes used sarcastically to point out the foolishness of the kind of person who would spell it that way...

@MiceElf Presumably it was better because it was from a dough rather than from a book?

(Wait - that's rabbits, isn't it?)

MrsSB I think it could be spelt as 'kewl' because that's how it's pronounced by people who are being 'kewl'. A bit like calling someone 'hunn' (short for honey?)

Don't ask me, I'm the least kewl person I know.

feetle

feetlebaum, gosh I hope my sister doesn't think I'm the sort of person who'd spell it that way, haha, or that she thinks I'm foolish. No, unfortunately, I think she was just trying to be "kewl"!

Olney market is clearly even posher than I thought, then - Anglo- French stall holders eh? Whenever I have overheard them they have sounded more Anglo-Saxon

My brother once was marking GCSE English papers and one scrip was entirely Text Speak. - That student failed!!

* script

When I look at facebook posts from my friends of my off-spring's generation & younger, I often haven't a clue what they mean, especially the nieces & nephews in Oz & San Francisco. It was the same when I had a brief foray into Mumsnet - a totally different way of expressing yourself. Perhaps I should learn it so I can write briefer posts!
(I wrote 'yourself' as I couldn't decide how to spell oneself/one's self/ one'self & didn't want to look ignorant???)

Yes, one can get a bit paranoid, GadaboutGran! Just 'oneself' is fine, I think.