In English Please...

For English press one....lol Message I received on Yuwie: H r y? My respond: U don’t know your language Respond: Y beta lern englo My respond Where are you from? Respond: Miami HUGS!

First I think we have to try and tell the difference between those that don't even try to type right (like their posts make it seem like they were texting someone on their cellphone) and those people that do not have a firm base of the English language. Even though I haven't been here that long I have been able to see that this community has a large international body. And if someone from another country doesn't know English well you at least have to give them credit for trying. As hard as it is for you to try and decipher what they are saying, it is even harder for them to try and translate what they are trying to say from their language to english. You just got to give it some patience and try to see where they are comming from. Every little bit they type, read, write, and say will give them a better grasp on a foreign language. I should know. I lived in Germany for a year and when I went their I knew a total of 2 or 3 sentences. I am annoyed at those that are too lazy to type in full sentences, to spell words out, or to use puntuation. That is just laziness and most times you can't even understand what they are trying to say. I am not going to waste my time to try and read those posts on this site or any other that I belong to. You can tell the people that do this. Their senteces run together, all their words are abbreviated and it seems from what you can read to make no sense what-so-ever. But I will be the first to admit that I don't have the best spelling or grammar, but at least I usually try my hardest. You can tell when I'm being lazy because I will usually write everything in lowercase letters lol.

Well I have noticed that.There are so many reasons. Number one is so many people are very poor in English here. Two,it is the common practice of the people from a certain country who know English to try to show off their command over the language by being so elaborate and not coming to the point straight. Three, there are some people who believe that they earn more by putting more words keep piling up words and sentences incoherently.These are the main culprits. So I think that we have to face all kinds of people here or for that matter in any forum.

When I see someone that is a non-native speaker, I'm more forgiving than someone who is obviously a native speaker. I have had people say that they are coming here to try and improve their skills, and I will try to puzzle out what they are trying to communicate. Sometimes I'm just flummoxed tho...

I encounter this problem quite often. Sometimes it is really difficult for me to decode the message/s. Of course, I wouldn't like to assume what the messages actually mean because I might interpret it differently. Wrong spelling and grammatical errors are common problems here at myLot. Others are simply typographical errors. Maybe we just have to be a little more patient my friend.

it is the new language of the text message and computers. so many people do this now that i try to figure out the message. What gets me is when they day 'dis for this or 'dat for that..etc etc..i don't mind skipping capital letters or some pronounucaton..as i spell terrible sometimes..but i try

mylot is such a mixed lot of poeple ya cant exspect all to wirte the english good. we make out ok in game rooms with puter short hand so we all should be able to make out what others right in here at least they are trying and the more they write the more they learn to write english right?

You've got to remember, this is a World Symposium....and we all have a part in it. Are you suggesting that if you can't exchange in English, you shouldn't be here? This is a learning ground, so you can feel good when you accept all input, be it spelled correct or not.

Imagine if myLot had originated in China and the language was Chinese. Suppose we all wanted to learn Chinese. myLot would be a Great way to practise our new language skills. Plus we would need a keyboard with Chinese symbols. My God! What a challenge that would be! Would you or I, even have the guts to try it? (I once used a Chinese Internet Cafe when visiting Taiwan, and when that screen came up in Chinese it almost blew me away) Lets give all those people who are doing their best to learn the language, here on myLot, a real LOUD Cheer! Good work and stay with it!

Well, I am bother about it sometimes. But I always try to understand what it means, read and figure out what is really means for I too is not good in English. But I think this grammatical error or misspelled words could be attributed to too much texting. This has been an issue in my country. They said that because of texting, people no longer observe grammar and punctuation so long as they can have their message long with those shorten words. And because they are accustomed doing that to their cellphone, there is a tendency that they will be able to bring the accustomed habit in responding to discussion here on internet and even on writing habit. I am also get annoyed sometimes of acronyms. By the way what LMAO means. I have met these acronym a lot of time here but I still don't know what it means.

man....u got understand that here are people from another countries...this is not only for amerikan people...so, not all of us speak english very well ,i speak spanish...