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The teens who can barely talk - they only have an 800 word vocabulary
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| 1-11-2010
| Luke Salkeld
Posted on 01/11/2010 7:00:37 PM PST by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
>’We need to help today’s teenagers understand the difference between their textspeak and the formal language they need to succeed in life 800 words will not get you a job.’
As long as you have a teleprompter, you only need 3: Hope and Change’.
To: smokingfrog
Sad, but not shocking.
We have been obsessed with those damn phones and computers (only in the last couple years “texting” - I cringe at that “word”).
Why we allow children to regularly have these devices I do not know. I do not think my son should even be allowed to carry them around every day, much less “own” 1.
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:05:13 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: smokingfrog
Unemployable?
Ha, that is funny. The welfare state will take care of them.
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:06:13 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards,com)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:06:13 PM PST
by
La Lydia
To: smokingfrog
I’m all like totally whatever!
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:07:08 PM PST
by
stormer
To: max americana
This isn’t new. Valley girl speak in the eighties cut girls’ vocabularies down to about 50 words. I think.
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:07:51 PM PST
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:08:43 PM PST
by
magritte
("I will give this monkey for lunch to Mr Sata,")
To: smokingfrog
All these dumb kids will become adults, get on the welfare rolls and they’ll be a big future constituency for the Dems. And we’ll be supporting these losers. Not a problem for them. A big problem for the country.
To: smokingfrog
Mo gubmint is de way fo sho.
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:09:41 PM PST
by
matt1234
To: max americana
Obama money
gimmie
racist
mine
more
govment check
teabagger
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:12:11 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: smokingfrog
Today Jean Gross, who advises the Government on children's speech, said urgent action was required to prevent children failing to find jobs because they are unable to communicate. I stopped in a local Pub the other day and a 20-something was there whose vocabulary seemed limited to using the f-word at least twice in each 'sentence.'
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:12:27 PM PST
by
Ditto
(Directions for Clean Government: If they are in, vote them out. Rinse and repeat.)
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To: Bobkk47
And well be supporting these losers.Maybe YOU will. I'm going to pay off the house and earn just enough money working at McDonald's to buy the few things I can't grow in my backyard.
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01/11/2010 7:14:55 PM PST
by
nina0113
To: smokingfrog
Doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the latest fad of people who want to seem smart beginning every paragraph with, “So,”.
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:16:04 PM PST
by
Glenn
(iamtheresistance.org)
To: Ditto
I stopped in a local Pub the other day and a 20-something was there whose vocabulary seemed limited to using the f-word at least twice in each 'sentence.'I heard one drop it in the middle of a word.
I don't know where it went. It disa-f***ing-peared!"
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:16:04 PM PST
by
Publius
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:16:13 PM PST
by
Doohickey
(I try to take my days one at a time, but occasionally several days attack me at once.)
To: smokingfrog
Teenagers talking and acting like dopes?? I don’t believe it!
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01/11/2010 7:19:21 PM PST
by
Huck
(The Constitution is an outrageous insult to the men who fought the Revolution." -Patrick Henry)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
01/11/2010 7:20:13 PM PST
by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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