Texting generation carrying spelling habits to birth certificates?

It's bad enough when exams have to cater to horrific spellers due to their SMS-based vocabulary, but we're doing everything we can to make ourselves believe this latest report simply isn't true. Reportedly, a social analyst in Australia somehow believes that the wide range in spellings in a few popular names is due in large part to the fact that we spend way too much time as a whole conjugating and hyphenating in order to get text-based messages across. Said analyst was even quoted as saying that "the use of a 'y' instead of an 'i' has hit epidemic proportions, as has the use of 'k' over 'c'." Realistically, we're not about to believe the SMS craze is actually affecting children's names en masse, but please, do your next born a favor and give him / her the vowels they deserve.

[Via textually]

[Rainier @ Mar 7th 2008 10:30AM]

idk my bff jill

[Chebwa @ Mar 7th 2008 10:35AM]

What?

[bondsbw @ Mar 7th 2008 10:59AM]

?

[o29 @ Mar 7th 2008 11:11AM]

@Chebwa, bondsbw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIUcRJX9-o

[Schweppes7T4 @ Mar 7th 2008 11:16AM]

http://www.lurid.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/idk_my_bff_jill.jpg

[Chebwa @ Mar 7th 2008 11:23AM]

GOD THAT'S SO AWFUL.

Thank TiVo I have never seen it until now.

[Matt @ Mar 7th 2008 12:25PM]

@ Rainier

I remember thats shiz,ROFL til 2moro

[michas_pi @ Mar 7th 2008 12:21PM]

MYOB will ya?

Grandma...

IDK, my bff Rose?

[Student Driver @ Mar 7th 2008 12:59PM]

oh noes, i kant beleev it. Trys as i might, teh future is fail.

Yes, this is awful. I am still surprised with "tryed" when I see it, but whatever. What we really need are more old English teachers that are willing to pound sense into these people. That would be teh hawtness.

[Josh @ Mar 7th 2008 2:14PM]

haha, best 1st post ever.

[Timothy @ Mar 7th 2008 10:35AM]

Welcome to Cosco, I love you.

[YouFaceTheTick @ Mar 7th 2008 11:14AM]

Love "Idiocracy." Your line would be really funny, save for the fact that company's name is "Costco."

[Dubb @ Mar 7th 2008 12:53PM]

You love car seats and strollers?

Sweet.

[John P @ Mar 7th 2008 10:38AM]

Luckily, smartphones are becoming more popular everyday. But this isn't surprising. It's very similar to people naming their children after diseases that sound "pretty" because they dont know what it means. Chlamydia for instance? Yeah, true story.

[teej @ Mar 7th 2008 2:30PM]

true story or it happened in 'Waiting'?

[Ian @ Mar 7th 2008 4:14PM]

both.

[aardvark sandwich @ Mar 7th 2008 10:38AM]

lol wtf? roflmfao ^-^

[slyd3z @ Mar 7th 2008 11:50AM]

I'm sure you forgot a 'bbq' in there somewhere...

kthxbye

[AlexP @ Mar 7th 2008 5:35PM]

Cancer killing our society.

[Hax Or @ Mar 7th 2008 10:39AM]

This public service announcement brought to you by the Luddite Council!

Cuz technology is dumb.

[mlody11 @ Mar 7th 2008 10:39AM]

omg, xlnt!

[Evan @ Mar 7th 2008 10:39AM]

With T9 prediction (which requires complete spelling but only one key-press per letter), I'm surprised that people still bother to drop vowels.

[Reader @ Mar 7th 2008 11:38AM]

Truthfully no one that texts me in my age group drops vowels. Only older people seem to find it necessary.

[ssuk @ Mar 7th 2008 11:45AM]

T9 is horribly, HORRIBLY inaccurate even on modern phones.

[rutsy5 @ Mar 7th 2008 1:25PM]

@ssuk: what are you talking about?

Press 0 to cycle through options when it gives you the wrong word. It can even learn new words you give it. or you can just spend 5 minutes trying to tap out c u l8r, alig8r with your ABC

[oshean @ Mar 7th 2008 5:10PM]

T9 is fine once you learn how to use it.
Go to the T9 site and practice up. http://www.t9.com/

[Brad @ Mar 7th 2008 8:23PM]

Vowel dropping is part of the natural progression of many languages. Arabic, for example, has no vowels at all. It's not that they're not there, it's just that they're not written, because they are implicit. For English, not being a strictly consonant-vowel-pair language, we can't drop all vowels. But we can drop most of 'em.

[Pokey @ Mar 7th 2008 10:43AM]

Nice, Torrance where I work. First Mark Fuhrman and now this.

[Dae @ Mar 7th 2008 2:52PM]

Yeah, I work in an office at the end of the airstrip (Hawthorne side) right near there. Also was born at Torrance Memorial myself. However, I think the certificate is just a photoshop example. ;)

[phox sense @ Mar 7th 2008 10:48AM]

I'm sorta sick of people who complain about the spelling of any or every word that does not conform to some imaginary universal standard of theirs. Actually I'm only sick of those self-righteous individuals who go from blog to blog to correct the spellings of others. I assume these individuals have an agenda, due to losing in their 3rd grade spelling bee.

Okay, we do need a standard in the basic words that we use to communicate with one another, but does it really matter when it comes to a person's name? Let an individual be an individual. Let parents name their kids the way they want to, even if it includes a 2.0 instead of JR. Let parents be creative with their child's name. But I guess there will always be haters and parents who dont want to stray from the norm.

So I guess I will go meet a Dave, Jack, and Jane tmmrw.

[Kris @ Mar 7th 2008 10:51AM]

Imaginary standard?

Stay in school kids... stay in school

[DorianGray @ Mar 7th 2008 10:57AM]

@phox sense

Ummm, "Jr." You wrote "JR."

zing.

[phox sense @ Mar 7th 2008 10:57AM]

Yes, coming from an offspring of parents who named their child Kris instead of the normal Chris. I do agree to a standard in words to communicate, but not to a universal way of how a name should be spelled.

[Gokor @ Mar 11th 2008 3:28PM]

Naming someone Kris isn't exactly the same as removing all the vowels in a word...just because you want to be cool. Kris is a spelling that has been around for many, many years.

You'd have an arguement if the person was named Chrstphr...in this case, his name is a variance, not a complete disregard to naming your kids with respect.

[ericthebikeman @ Mar 7th 2008 11:08AM]

Sorry Bozo but those imaginary standards are the only reason you can understand what people write. Teachers are doing kids a favor by flunking them for using l8r instead of later. You want to be taken seriously, learn the flippin language.
Why not just write "a45skejr hwehwy kuyse uuxye" to say this coffee is hot? Well you'd be instantly ridculed for starters, second no one would understand and you'd be illiterate. But hey, if that's the way you want to roll go for it who am I to stop you?
I'm no grammar nazi, but I'd like to be able to convey a message and actually qualify for a job that pays more than minimum wage.

[phox sense @ Mar 7th 2008 11:14AM]

@ericthebikeman:

"Okay, we do need a standard in the basic words that we use to communicate with one another"

Please read my whole comment before replying next time. Comprehend the fact that I said the comment about the "universal standard" out of just anger with the "spelling nazis".

[Ike Skelton @ Mar 7th 2008 11:17AM]

Loser. Learn to spell and quit getting angry when people correct you.

[Andrew @ Mar 7th 2008 11:21AM]

"Comprehend the fact that I said the comment about the "universal standard" out of just anger with the "spelling nazis"."

Whoa, reading that sentence is like riding a roller coaster!

[Xzavier @ Mar 7th 2008 11:41AM]

Well I don't know if the spelling of that name on the birth certificate is wrong for whomever or not, however, if I am correct the name should be spelled like this...

1. Incorrect use of upper/lowercase = JNTHN MCKLRY.
2. Correct use of upper/loser case = Jnthn Mcklry.

Example 1.
Credit cards, SS cards, driver license, paycheck, any letter=bills and or bills with your name on it, are all spelled in upper case.

Example 2.
Your birth certificated, junk letters=non legal/no bills, The way you were taught to write YOUR name in school K-12 are written with the first letter of your name capitalized and the rest of your name in lower case.

Just look in your wallet/purse and then look at your mail when you get home or even your birth certificate... Interesting!

[Reader @ Mar 7th 2008 11:44AM]

Damn, I've met some people that hate English and I'm no fan myself, but I think you take the cake. Never heard anyone go so far to call it an "imaginary standard". Since you're not a fan of those, could I have all your imaginary fiat currency and we'll call it even?

[ssuk @ Mar 7th 2008 11:49AM]

phox sense: Kris is the diminutive form of names beginning with "Kris" or "Chris". Like Kirsty, Kristian, Kristin, etc. It's not a new name by any means and out dates phones by a good few centuries.

[Kris @ Mar 7th 2008 12:03PM]

@phox, Why do names need to be spelled in a "normal" way? I see nothing wrong with my name. In fact, you could say I'm named after a weapon rather than an alternative way of spelling "Chris".

@ssuk, Thanks, all girls names :(

[Zak @ Mar 7th 2008 12:11PM]

Apparently dictionaries are imaginary now. Awesome. Stay in school.

[Jeff @ Mar 7th 2008 1:04PM]

@phox:

Regarding your second comment (in the replies), do you not find it ironic that you are complaining about "imaginary standards" with regard to English usage, yet then calling others out for not "comprehending" your point?

Here's a hint: if you want people to comprehend you better, try brushing up on some of those imaginary standards you hate so much. You've just demonstrated why they exist.

[Vidikron (FU) @ Mar 7th 2008 1:53PM]

The language came before the rules. Just throwing that out there.

[BubbaGump @ Mar 7th 2008 3:23PM]

My name is Kris,
and im a guy,

were my parents wishing for something else??? :(

[Kris Quigley @ Mar 7th 2008 11:07PM]

My name is Kris too, and I'm also a guy. But my full name is actually 'Kristofer'.

[Hibiki Rush @ Mar 7th 2008 10:48AM]

I don't get this 'texting generation' speak. I have a QWERTY phone and don't write texts like a moron. Neither do any of my friends, even if they don't have a keyboard phone. Maybe it's a pre-teen thing?

[o29 @ Mar 7th 2008 11:16AM]

I do think it is much more prevalent with ~9-12 year olds. When I was young back in the days of AOL 3.0, such spellings were much more common among my friends.

Then they grew up.

[tiuk @ Mar 7th 2008 4:58PM]

I couldn't agree more. With stuff like T9 it's easier to write actual words than txt-lingo. Plus the receiver gets an added bonus of not having to decode your idiocy.