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Why do you write “you” as “u” here? I don’t want to be rude, but it’s very jarring to see juvenile txt-speak in a serious discussion.
by School-Cotton 2y ago
Why do you write “you” as “u” here? I don’t want to be rude, but it’s very jarring to see juvenile txt-speak in a serious discussion.
- sunshinekitty 2y agoit’s not that serious
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- the_andrei 2y agou must be fun at parties
- theoreticalmal 2y ago“serious discussion” notwithstanding, I thought the “u’re” was particularly interesting. Why not “ur”? “u” is obviously easier to write, so why worry about properly contracting it? Just interesting imo
- em3rgent0rdr 2y agoAbbreviations can only be useful when they're unambiguous within their context. Maybe “u’re” is unambiguous here, but “re” might have been a step too far to still know what word writer was abbreviating.
- JadeNB 2y agoMaybe “u’re” is unambiguous here, but “re” might have been a step too far to still know what word writer was abbreviating. The question was about contracting “u’re” to “ur”, as is commonly done in text-ese, not to “re”.
- ibash 2y agoIt wasn’t clear to me what “u’re” was and I wouldn’t have understood without the comment. I’m a native English speaker.
- nivertech 2y agoWasn’t the guy who wrote “all correct” as “oll korrekt”[1] a native [American] English speaker also? —- 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK
- quuxplusone 2y agoNot to contradict you, but fascinating coincidence: my favorite alleged originator of OK — "Old Kinderhook," Martin Van Buren — is to date the one and only U.S. president who did not speak English as his first language. (But "oll korrect" is apparently attributed to Andrew Jackson, who was a native speaker, yes.)
- nivertech 2y agoI dare u to correct sama’s tweets ;)
- School-Cotton 2y agoWho?
- JadeNB 2y agoSam Altman: https://x.com/sama https://x.com/sama
- School-Cotton 2y agoI knew who it was, sorry, I was just trolling. Both twitter and AI-bro culture are extremely distasteful to me so I thought citing an AI bro’s twitter account as an example of how it’s acceptable to behave online was absurd.
- JadeNB 2y agoAh. I took it to be less "sama did it, so it's OK," and more "you wouldn't gatekeep sama's English, so why gatekeep the English of a random HN commenter?" But maybe that was the wrong interpretation.
- Mistletoe 2y agoIt’s stupid when he does it too.
- ziddoap 2y ago>a serious discussion hardly. this is an informal internet forum of mostly anonymous people chit chatting about random stuff instead of working.
- Tagbert 2y agoI have started using “u” in my posts as there are a surprising number of sites that block or delay for approval posts that use “you”. They seem to feel that posts with “you” are too often inflammatory. It is very frustrating when you use grammatical “you” as I just did and suddenly your post is stuck in limbo.
- phanimahesh 2y agoU are u man wizard. It's probably slightly jarring to see u r instead of you're, but I did not even notice it at first glance. Like the sibling comment says, we're all semi anonymous internet folks talking about mostly not serious things.
- flobosg 2y agoI fully agree, youmanwizard.
- nivertech 2y agotouché ;)
- jghn 2y agoNot sure if it's the case here but over the decades I've observed there's a cultural aspect here. When I've had colleagues from the Middle East and/or South Asia I've found they're much more likely to use `u` and `r` colloquially than western counterparts. This could be what you're observing. Or perhaps they just like the aesthetics.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoI want to be rude. The mix of "The same consideration applies to coordinate systems:" and "r u positioning urself..." in the same message is ridiculous to me and I can't take anyone seriously who speaks like this. It's not illegal or immoral, but it is at the very least, demonstrably distracting from their own actual substantive point. Here we all are talking about that when they otherwise had a perfectly good observation to talk about. Everyone is jumping on your use of the word "serious" as though you meant serious like cancer instead of just not texting ya bro bout where u at tonite, as though there are only two levels of formal and informal, the two extremes. If this is so casual and we are txting, then why did they use punctuation and no emojis? Ending sentences with periods is verbal abuse now, so, I guess we're not txting after all? Pick a lane!
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- ziddoap 2y agoPeople taking such offense to something so absolutely inconsequential, on an internet forum no less, is ridiculous to me and I can't take anyone seriously who gets worked up about it. You, and parent poster, understood them fine. You, and the parent poster, are the ones who are steering the conversation in the direction of how they typed, not what they typed. They had a "perfectly good observation to talk about", yet u decided not to talk about it.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoIt's at least as valid, in fact more so, to say that I was distracted by something they decided to say. There is no objective way to assign all blame for the tangent to just us or just them, however the closest you can come is to say that whoever speaks first is more responsible for their unprompted speech than responders are for their reactions. They chose their reactions, but they are not reactions in a vacuum, they are reactions to something, that came from someone else.
- thunderfork 2y ago
- brianzelip 2y agomaybe on a mobile?
- pixelpoet 2y agoI've never understood the universal acceptance of poor writing on mobile; everyone immediately throws their hands up and goes ahhh okay that makes sense then. If only smartphones had some means of seeing the typed output... a screen perhaps? Icing on the cake would be some kind of backspace button, which together would enable proofreading! You know, like in other forms of written communication. Basically everyone will insist it's entirely to be blamed on the phone, and we're expected to believe that no, really, the moment they sit at a physical keyboard they reliably distinguish your from you're etc.