He needs to be fired.

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Some stories can't be told with words, some legends are meant to die

I understand it's generally a humorous honor. "Truthiness" was clever and funny (and was totally suitable to be added to the lexicon) but w00t represents something seriously shitty. You need to read these fucking papers. You people would be shocked that a kid thinks it's acceptable to use "ur" in a paper for school.

I wanted to cry when "bling bling" made it into the Oxford dictionary... now I want to weep, this is far far worse

at least bling bling uses actual fucking letters, and isn't a bastardization to this extent

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And I still lost /cry

i dont get annoyed easily,
but i do get annoyed by people who get annoyed easily

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Language is always evolving and always changing. I consider "language" to be divided into a couple of categories: Academic English, Conversational English and Web English. To be truly successful in academia, Academic English can't be tainted with Web English. I had a grade 10 student submit a Propaganda Poster assignment and he used the word "Wut" in it. He didn't understand that English in 1914 was different than it is now. I don't accept slang in written work that my students submit. However, whatever people want to say online or in conversation is their own business. In my opinion, it's a "go-with-the-flow" kind of situation.

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Not this time, nancy-boy!

So have you actually read a paper where a student included the word "w00t" Please give me the sentence of that one lol.

Uh, isn't this proof of the combining of all three?

I've always considered spoken and written to be very different forms of English. Dialect can often, acceptably, bleed in to written word, however, not so much in academia. Spoken word is a lot more fluid since our stress on tolerance of culture make it so we have no set standard for 'speaking.'

The complication here is that net-speak, or whatever the hell you want to call it, is changing both written and spoken language. The changes are mostly subtle so far. I'd say if a kid used "wut" I'd question the context. What kind of paper was it? Has he/she always done this in papers? Where was it used? If it was in an academic paper that contained nothing relevant to the Internet bastardizations of words then it's really not acceptable.

It's about as appropriate as writing, "Ya'll tawlkin' 'bout that thar book I reads 'n ninth grade 'nglish." How old is this kid anyway? If it's even as far as like 8th grade then I'm really surprised it was caught that late if this was something he was consistently doing.

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