Lecture # 2 : No Slang, No SMS

[The_Big_K]

Slang & SMS equivalents of English words! Shall we blame the social networking websites?

Before we begin, let us understand the company you are in. At the time of writing this article, our ever growing CEan team consists of Professionals & Students from all parts of the world. Some of us are as young as 17 & as old as 62! Isn't that amazing?

At CrazyEngineers, we decided to use plain English while making posts. We strictly avoid slang & SMS equivalents of words. That is -

CEans would never write as below -

"hi!!!!!......i hav found smthg really gr88!! ..... the 6 stroke eng. is rokin"

Please take some time to write complete words. Avoid the nasty long trail of dots in between the words. It does no good.

-The Big K-

[djnachi]

Originally Posted by The_Big_K

Slang & SMS equivalents of English words! Shall we blame the social networking websites?

Before we begin, let us understand whos company are you in. At the time of writing this article, our ever growing CEan team consists of Professionals & Students from all parts of the world. Some of us are as young as 17 & as old as 62! Isn't that amazing?

At CrazyEngineers, we decided to use plain English while making posts. We strictly avoid slang & SMS equivalents of words. That is -

CEans would never write as below -



Please take some time to write complete words. Avoid the nasty long trail of dots in between the words. It does no good.

-The Big K-

Hello there,

Big K' a very good evening to you first of all. i have just registered a day before so dont know much about CE and so thought of goin through basic lecture threads posted by you.

To be frank, am a 2nd year Computer Science & Engineering student not doin so good in acads., so i would like to know if me being a member of CE is right??

Me quoting to this thread is mainly because of 2 reasons,
1st. The title sayin "NO SLANG NO SMS" haha.. am an all time slanger so....
2nd. As you mentioned in it, that you have members between age group of 17 to 62yrs which i think clearifies my above querry about me being a member of CE, but still i would like to know your side of opinion!!

Regards,
Nachikaait

[The_Big_K]

To be frank, am a 2nd year Computer Science & Engineering student not doin so good in acads., so i would like to know if me being a member of CE is right??

Every registered member of CrazyEngineers (CE) is a CEan. If you aren't doing good in exams, we all are here to help you. Don't worry. We don't even expect our members to have a 'degree' per say. Engineering is all about attitude; that's what we believe.

Welcome to CE. We'd love to know more about you in - Introductions Section here - http://www.crazyengineers.com/forum/...splay.php?f=35

Me quoting to this thread is mainly because of 2 reasons,
1st. The title sayin "NO SLANG NO SMS" haha.. am an all time slanger so....
2nd. As you mentioned in it, that you have members between age group of 17 to 62yrs which i think clearifies my above querry about me being a member of CE, but still i would like to know your side of opinion!!

The 'No Slang No SMS' philosophy ( ) has been around ever since CE came to life. That's a simple expectation from all CEans based on Common Sense. We are read by Engineers from all over the world. It makes perfect sense to take out some time to format our posts (that's a good habit, believe me) & write complete words. Slag, I personally believe, is about showing disrespect to the language ( debate? ).

The age range only indicates that we have junior & senior engineers on CE. It is not a criteria for becoming a CEan

Lecture 1-4 have been written to ensure that we all follow a protocol which makes sense & is good.

-The Big K-
P.S: Its *Our* (you are included) community.

[teensdesire]

suggest some good social networking sites

[aniket_jain985]

hello,BIG K there,well its good to use simple English.
No slang no sms.
i like it.

[morecrazythanu]

THANK YOU!!!
I hate this net-speak thing... why can't people spell words correctly?

[awasthi.piyush]

It's very good that we have to follow professional attitude while posting any reply

[The_Big_K]

Well, you are right. We all must keep in mind that our posts are read by people from all over the world, of all ages, from various professions etc. So let's keep the posting business 'professional'

[ash]

Originally Posted by morecrazythanu

THANK YOU!!!
I hate this net-speak thing... why can't people spell words correctly?

I share your sentiments

[raj87verma88]

I agree Ash. Sometimes this sms language can become very irritating.

[Alien]

Alright , I dint know this previously. Now that I have been informed, I'll keep the things right!

[rafe]

I like to be here because its really irritating with code words used in other blogs.Its only because i cant understand such things.

[just2rock]

true ...this short message service is creating a mess leading young careerists to forget their proper English language usage

[gky007]

good, i like it.

[Priyalak]

Using the messenger for a long time had made me use sms language alot. I will try my level best not to use it in here.

[AnkitaDeshpande]

Hello Big K,

Actually it is very difficult to do this but i will surely abide by the rules.
I take a oath here that I will never use slang or sms language but if I do it by mistake please do forgive me.

but i will not do this mistake.