[paddym22]

Sabrina

Here is an excerpt off my nieces Facebook page, thought you might enjoy the challenge..........

"" Person 1:

K so stori wid tmoz????? same as wat we zed wed????

Person 2

Ya supoz it wud make senz to do dat alrite.......she musta bin
runnin ferry late bring it wid ya too wer goin tescos? its bin a
while sinds we wuz der last!!!!

Person 1

Deadly

Person 2

L8trz

****************************

And that was a conversation between a first year medical student and her sister also my niece who is fluent in Gaelic, German, French, English and the above whatever that is.

Looks like a cross between Afrikaans and Dutch!

Lol

[Sabrina]

LOL - thanks Paddy!

This truly is a language unto its own. I think I made out about 2 or 3 words .......

I suppose I must just get over myself and accept that this is part of life now. After all, I don't have to read it.

[Shangrala]

I understood what they were saying to each other.

IMO, it's all a matter of personal preference how to use language.
Yes, this use is unusual and for some, not easily understood. But, just as with any language unfamiliar, unless you learn it for yourself, it will all be foreign to you.....doesn't make it any less correct for that individual.

It's simply all just a matter of choice....They choose to use it and we choose to read it.....or not....

(I so want to learn Dutch).

Shangrala

[angel12]

paddy took me ages to get that lol
must be me old age showin
ty for the giggle
rosey xx

If that stuff gets to be the communication medium, I will be illiterate.

Ditto The Byzantine!! chuckle chuckle

I didn't get any of it--goofy feeling--i love languages too!!--theo

[perpetuallysad]

I say ditto on that for me as well.

Paddy, when they speak to each other, do they speak like that?

[paddym22]

They have this curious linguistic ability yes, they were brought up
bi-lingually Gaelic/English so a lot of their sentences are pigeon english when speaking to each other. I get it straight away but then that is probably because I understand the abbreviation and intonations. All 'th' words are replaced with a D i.e. This - Dis, That - Dat, These - dese etc. etc, I guess its phoentic to a degree in Irish accented Engish. I think.

[paddym22]

Let me translate it for you

"" Person 1:

K so stori wid tmoz????? same as wat we zed wed????
OK so what is the story with tomorrow? same as what we said wednesday?

Person 2

Ya supoz it wud make senz to do dat alrite.......she musta bin
runnin ferry late bring it wid ya too wer goin tescos? its bin a
while sinds we wuz der last!!!!

Yes I suppose it would make sense to do that alright, she must have been running very late, bring it with you too, are we going to Tescos?
Its been a while since we were there last!

Person 1

Deadly

Great

Person 2

L8trz

See you later

[perpetuallysad]

Dang, I thought I knew what some of it said until I read your translation. Hehe

[ZilchHour]

Here is a similar joke that I received in my e-mail...

"The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas."

Think global !!!

[perpetuallysad]

Oh dang, I was doing ok reading it (thanks to the explanations) up until the 4th year. After that I really had to think.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, I made some of it out but it got more confusing as I went along.

[KeepHoldingOn]

I’m a bit surprised I was able to read and fully understand both.

This old geezer will never keep up.