TXT-speak approved for exams [New Zealand]

The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand ^ | November 9 2006 | Arwen Hann & Anna Charles

[shaggy eel]

Y knt jst hav fones welded 2 our hands & knot bovva turning up 2 skool? Maybe Pittmans shorthand will be acceptable 2.

[Xenalyte]

Close friend Harriet Prebble

AD, how old are "Year 11" students? Here, in 11th grade, they're 16 or 17.

I feel bad for anyone under 65 to be named Harriet.

[BenLurkin]

Orly?

[Domandred]

The day my kids are allowed to used l337 5p34k on an exam is the day I yank them from public schools...

Oh wait, they ain't going to public school anyway.

[shaggy eel]

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[shaggy eel]

,,, for a while I've been thinking it won't get any better, now we've got confirmation, without doubt.

[doodad]

pwnd

[Dont Mention the War]

I don't really see anything wrong with this, given that most exams are still taken by hand. Some people just don't write with a pen or pencil as quickly as others do, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to who ends up a faster or slower writer. As long as the words make sense within the context of so-called "txtspeak", I don't see where it's any different that allowing the use of the & symbol in place of "and".

[shaggy eel]

,,, then the textbooks can be written to look like a car crash too?

[blackie]

Up with proper English!

[Dont Mention the War]

,,, then the textbooks can be written to look like a car crash too?

No, of course not. All I'm saying is that I don't see anything wrong with the use of it to get your ideas out faster in a situation where you have an extremely limited amount of time and nothing but a pencil and paper. If they'd let everyone take exams on computers, I'd say no txt-stuff at all.

[Billthedrill]

This is SUXXOR!

[Gay State Conservative]

B4 2 long,medical skool xams will b dun the same way.

[Thrusher]

At least its still some form of English.

[shaggy eel]

,,, I'm wondering how Europe would go with this possibility. They're obsessed with standards, right down to the EU Handrail Standards Commission and have plenty of overpaid people to draft more and more rules and enforce them.

Our generation and previous ones had to achieve under tough educational standards but these have become so eroded in recent years.

With the advent of desktop software for everyone it seems accountants realised a need to bring in complex international reporting standards as a means of self preservation... with a drop in standards in the education sector, increased classroom violence and shootings and everything available on the internet, I can only imagine teachers making themselves largely irrelevant in the future. The genepool takes care of itself.

[shaggy eel]

At least its still some form of English.

,,, I'll keep that in mind when I'm reading the labels on my Viagara bottle five years from now.

[Thrusher]

TMI!

[Right Wing Assault]

Remember, "F u cn rd ths u 2 cn gt a gd jb"?

How about 6tf8n33 4$$o?

[ErnBatavia]

[RichInOC]

WTF OVER?