TXT language allowed in exams.

[terbang]

I am part way through a creative and technical writers course, being ever so aware of my early departure from 5th form English, I often make excuses for my poor gramma. Strangely enough my tutor, like Hitcher ruthlessly reviewing my assingments, tells me tht she has more difficulty with those that have recent English degrees than us old fellas who left school too early.
Also having colloquially learn't another language by immersion rather than study I now wish I could read it.

[Drunken Monkey]

1337 5p34|< 15 +3|-| L4n&ua&3 0f +3|-| +|2u3 \/\/uRd /\/\45t3|2 OMGLOLWTFBBQ!!!!!

You obviously have internet access. Try looking things up yourself for a change:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet_speak

[Jantar]

1337 5p34|< 15 +3|-| L4n&ua&3 0f +3|-| +|2u3 \/\/uRd /\/\45t3|2 OMGLOLWTFBBQ!!!!!

Is that some sort of language? It is completely unintelligible.

[WRT]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=1337

That might explain things clearer than DM's post - 1337 is a way of writing LEET (short for "elite"), which is what he's linking too. It's basically it's what nerds who think they are way cooler and more intelligent than anyone else use to write in "code".

[toymachine]

And the gradual dumbing down of society continues...

[BuFfY]

We have an exam next wednesday and some retard asked if we could write our essays in text language.... I think it is bloody stupid! She said no!

She also bought up a very valid point, in our faculty if we wrote 'lng', in the paper I am sitting it would be seen as learning, but in another paper I am doing it would be seen as language.

A part of being an academic is being able to write fluently, and being a teacher I would hate to have to decode very paper I was marking. It is hard enough with the terrible handwrititng!!

[BuFfY]

1337 5p34|< 15 +3|-| L4n&ua&3 0f +3|-| +|2u3 \/\/uRd /\/\45t3|2 OMGLOLWTFBBQ!!!!!

You obviously have internet access. Try looking things up yourself for a change:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet_speak

Ohmy god I knew how to read that... I must spend FAR too much time with pyrocam!

[James Deuce]

Listened to the NZQA get grilled on National Radio this morning, and the policy hasn't really changed and is directed more at abbreviations than txt or leetspeak.

However he did display an appalling lack of understanding that a language framework is inherently cross-disciplinary. He claimed that the rule was in place so that a pupil who explained Pythagoras' Theorem with chunks of txt speak wouldn't be penalised for a lack of understanding. If you can't explain it to yourself in English, how do you explain it to someone who doesn't understand txt. Hmmm?

[bobsmith]

They cant do too much language based stuff as all the Asians suck at it and you cant really upset them......

Hmmmm as I recall Asians generally do a lot better than other New Zealanders at being grammatically correct and using proper English...

[ManDownUnder]

This is pathetic... PC people trying to accomodate new ways of thinking ... without considering the potential/likely outcome.

pls Sr, m applyng fr t jb u put in da papa.

Dear Applicant - fk off

They did it with the apprencticeships ("practical traning... hell no son, you can learn how to fix things from a book... here - read this"). Look at the state we're in now.

[ManDownUnder]

Listened to the NZQA get grilled on National Radio this morning, and the policy hasn't really changed and is directed more at abbreviations than txt or leetspeak.

However he did display an appalling lack of understanding that a language framework is inherently cross-disciplinary. He claimed that the rule was in place so that a pupil who explained Pythagoras' Theorem with chunks of txt speak wouldn't be penalised for a lack of understanding. If you can't explain it to yourself in English, how do you explain it to someone who doesn't understand txt. Hmmm?

You do what anyone does when trying to explain something without the necessary linguistic abilities.

You get a translator. Bloody brilliant move though.

Na - I maintain - it's PC madness. To understand is one thing, to demonstrate understanding is another.

[Jantar]

She also bought up a very valid point, in our faculty if we wrote 'lng', in the paper I am sitting it would be seen as learning, but in another paper I am doing it would be seen as language.

And in any papers I've ever done it would be read as liquid natural gas.

[ManDownUnder]

1337 5p34|< 15 +3|-| L4n&ua&3 0f +3|-| +|2u3 \/\/uRd /\/\45t3|2 OMGLOLWTFBBQ!!!!!

You obviously have internet access. Try looking things up yourself for a change:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet_speak

Yes I do, no I won't. You want to talk to me, do it in a way I can understand (not having a go.. just making the point).
When in France I make an attempt to understand what they are saying, and try to learn a little of their language culture etc.

Same in the US although the differences are more subtle.

Speaking in what appears to be enhanced hex holds no thrill for me, I don't see the point and am happy to live without.

[ManDownUnder]

And in any papers I've ever done it would be read as liquid natural gas.

What if it was in a paper written by a foreign student? God only knows what it could/would mean then...

[Squeak the Rat]

http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr..._Speak-064.mp3 (thanks Jim2)

"We will actively discourage students using txt" - what does that mean? They will walk around the exam room shaking students who use txt?

"Don't use txt" shake-shake,
"Stop shaking me, why shouldn't I?"
"Because the marker might not understand it!"
"But he might"
"Well, yes there is that"
"Fuck off then, or should I say, fk of nbchz"