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Books. Who needs goddamn books anymore?

Aaaargh! I HATE (h8?) text message language!! What are they thinking?!?! They're creating little digital Bibles now which can be purchased for about the same price as a book. Why is this abomination necessary?? Did the Dead Sea Scrolls contain a translation into text message? I don't think so!

Makes my skin crawl....

But I wouldn't mind reading about the sheila and the bloke who shacked up in an outhouse and popped out a little tike ;) .
 
'text speak' is the work of Satan. Whenever I encounter it, I become violently unwell. If it crops up in a book, I never bother to read it.

I see no point in this text bible thing at all.
 
I would have read a couple of paragraphs of normal writing in the time it would take me to decifer one sentence of the dreaded 'Text Speak'
 
I think if it helps get The Word into the hands of those who would not consider buying a bible, it is an awesome thing.

I think if it helps a new generation relate to God, it is an awesome thing.

As long as we teach our children our love of the printed word, books will always be around, which is an awesome thing.
 
Kookamoor said:
Did the Dead Sea Scrolls contain a translation into text message? I don't think so!
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I have to... I really shouldn't... but I have to:

The Dead Sea scrolls weren't in English either, so if the above is your argument the Bible texts should never have been translated from the original languages ;)

Aside from that, I can't see this as anything but a joke. If those people are serious about it it's one of those cases of being unwillingly comical, I'm afraid.
 
Kookamoor said:
Aaaargh! I HATE (h8?) text message language!!
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I think I'm too young to be having an "I'm too old" moment, yet I am. I've never seen text message language. On the rare occasion that my friends and I text message we just spell it all out. Is this really that common that they are writing a bible in it?
 
Jemima Aslana said:
I have to... I really shouldn't... but I have to:
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Reminds me of the woman who said, "if English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!" She may have been a friend of the woman who said to Stephen Hawking, "But it's turtles all the way down!"
(page 11, EL&IC)

:rolleyes:
 
mehastings said:
Exactly. I have NO clue what this says.
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That's nothing like the text speech that I have ever seen, nor is it the text speech that the bible has been put into. This text speech is /much/ harder to read.

I don't have problems with text speech, but then again I've grown up with texting being one of the major communication tools, especially among teenagers. I don't have any problem with this idea either - it's not changing the bible in any way, just making it more accessible.
 
Call me a luddite, but this kind of thing should just be declared illegal and done away with. The offenders should be forced to read from things known as books.:D
 
Jemima Aslana said:
I have to... I really shouldn't... but I have to:

The Dead Sea scrolls weren't in English either, so if the above is your argument the Bible texts should never have been translated from the original languages ;)
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Ah yes. I do know that. I was just caught up in a rant and produced a ridiculous argument. Let's just let that slide under the table, shall we?

I just have issues accepting text writing as a valid communication tool. In fact, I find it insulting that someone can't be bothered taking the time to spell things out in a more eloquent fashion. These days cell/mobile phones have predictive text, so text speech is more of a throwback to the old days where it was a bit of a hastle to get all the letters out. Basically it's just considered trendy among some crowds. I think I'm on the cusp of the two generations. My first mobile didn't have predictive text, and I find predictive text very hard to use. But just like MSN I spell everything out, with correct grammar and punctuation. If I look at young adults just a few years younger than myself, I think it's a little different. If I'm sending a text message and I run out of characters I may abbreviate a word or two, but never stoop to text speak. I'm more likely to send a linked message (a message in two parts, which is just as common as predictive text these days).
 
Kookamoor said:
I just have issues accepting text writing as a valid communication tool. In fact, I find it insulting that someone can't be bothered taking the time to spell things out in a more eloquent fashion.
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This usually does annoy me, especially when people write essays and such in text speech :)rolleyes: ), but I think that this is a totally different situation, as it is more of an issue of making the bible more accessible rather than just being too lazy to spell and punctuate correctly.
 
MonkeyCatcher said:
This usually does annoy me, especially when people write essays and such in text speech :)rolleyes: ), but I think that this is a totally different situation, as it is more of an issue of making the bible more accessible rather than just being too lazy to spell and punctuate correctly.
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Oh! A student submitted a lab assignment in text speak to me once! It didn't get marked. (I think I ranted on this one before, actually).

Yeah, you've got a point. We may all be horrified, but we're not the target audience for this 'product'. Just as I'm never going to purchase jeans that sit halfway down my thighs and show off my tartan boxer shorts, I'm not going to purchase this.

I did a little searching and if you read this page it makes a little more sense: http://www.biblesociety.com.au/smsbible/
It seems to be more about spreading the word of God through a different medium and thus getting through to more people. It's not designed for people to read the whole text. In that sense, I can understand how this might be a neat novelty.
 
Yeah, technically my post wasn't 'text speach' but '1337' speak. '1337 speak' is mostly replacing vowels with numbers with a similar shape. '1337' itself comes from the word 'elite'. Its use is to describe something that is advanced in a technical way. It's more of a computer user nonsense than a mobile phone users nonsense.

Personally I think stuff like this is disgusting. Language doesn't need dumbing down, people need to smarten up. Text speech came around as a way to lower data amounts transmitted. Makes sense when data transfers cost a lot but as our band is ever broadening it's becoming pointless and dangerous as it corrupts already shaky language skills in teens.
 
To true, ions.

I first started communicating on the internet by way of mail and fanfiction forums where spelling is quite normal (and if it isn't it's not intentional) But then I ended up on debate forums and got into the habit of writing dunno, gonna and worst of all 'prolly'. I've spent almost a year now getting rid of that habit, and I still mess up at times - also in papers for university, thankfully spell check catch those, but that it has become such an ingrown habit is greatly annoying to my inner perfectionist.
 
'Text speech' really aggravates me. It takes me forever to figure out what it means and I find that a lot of kids forget that they are not on msn or texting a message and actually do include things like 'h8' and 'da', and all those kinds of abbreviations, in their essays at school. When I send someone a text message I spell the whole words. When I am on msn, I write proper sentences and spell the whole words. It is really not that hard and at least I don't have to worry that people won't know what I'm talking about.

We have two computers. I have one, my daughter has the other. Sometimes when we are both using msn, if she wants me to do something for her, but is too lazy to get up and actually come and ask me, she will send me a message via msn. One message she sent me once, I ended up with replying, "I have no idea what you are saying, you make no sense at all. If you want me, come here." She laughs and tells me I'm so uncool. I have no idea why actually knowing how to write a sentence properly is uncool, but apparently it is.

As for the Bible being made into text messages, well I wouldn't read them because, as I already said, I have a lot of trouble deciphering them. But from what I understood from the article it was more about just trying to make the Bible more widely accessible. I have no objections to this.

Jem those words you mentioned, 'dunno', etc., I tend to use a lot on forums because I am writing as I speak and those words are slang words I use a lot.
 
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