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starting to wonder as listening to a couple of the granddaughters speaking both of whom text extremely fast on the phones ,they are also talking so fast that its hard to keep up with what there actually saying .its almost like the words are all joining together and they have to get it all out without stopping . when I asked the oldest one why ,her excuse was she had to talk that fast to stop her mum (my daughter) from interrupting .
its getting to sound like a totally foreign language to me though . anyone else of the older generation noticing the same thing ?
 
Gotta say, I'd not noticed but that did make me chuckle :lol:

the black fox said:
she had to talk that fast to stop her mum (my daughter) from interrupting .
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Andofcoursetheirkidswillhavetotalkevenfaster

:D
 
They're stopping teaching of cursive writing in schools.
I must be old school.
 
Wait until they start talking Jamaican patois blud, erghhhh drives me made with my lot!
 
the black fox said:
starting to wonder as listening to a couple of the granddaughters speaking both of whom text extremely fast on the phones ,they are also talking so fast that its hard to keep up with what there actually saying .its almost like the words are all joining together and they have to get it all out without stopping . when I asked the oldest one why ,her excuse was she had to talk that fast to stop her mum (my daughter) from interrupting .
its getting to sound like a totally foreign language to me though . anyone else of the older generation noticing the same thing ?
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It's your hearing you old fart, I bet you can't properly hear modern TV dramas either :-)
Matt
(Same for me!)
 
I want to know why the letter 'T' has fallen from grace unless at the start of a word - even my wife, who is over 50 has started to say twenny instead of twenTy.
My 18 year old does much the same.
Thankfully my 13 year old has still got the ability to say something worth listening to, even if the subject is often less than interesting...
 
But languages have always evolved.
 
Remember when I was a teenager we did the same thing, my dad was always telling me to slow down, and I recall a mate who I used to have to slow down, it’s a phase.
 
viv1969 said:
They're stopping teaching of cursive writing in schools.
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Good. I had an argument with my daughter's teacher over this. She struggled with cursive, so I showed her how to just write each letter individually (as I do) then she managed to write legibly.
No books, computer screens, etc. show writing in cursive so why hand write like it?

Phil V said:
Remember when I was a teenager we did the same thing, my dad was always telling me to slow down.
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However, watch a film from the 40s or 50s and you will see people used to talk a lot faster than is normal now.


Steve.
 
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viv1969 said:
They're stopping teaching of cursive writing in schools.
I must be old school.
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I consciously stopped writing cursive script when I was 13. It made my writing much more legible.

Teachers at primary school said "you must be able to write 'joined up' at big school"
Teachers at 'big' school didn't in fact care about handwriting, beyond being able to read what was written. They were only interested in what was written, not how it was written.
 
stevewestern said:
I want to know why the letter 'T' has fallen from grace unless at the start of a word - even my wife, who is over 50 has started to say twenny instead of twenTy.
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Turnin in't Yorksha folk
 
Is it unique to English?

I really struggle with learning languages, and one of the hardest things I find is understanding spoken word as it all sounds like a continuous jumbled mess with no clear separation between words.
 
definitely not unique to brits, but i think the growing acceptance of multi culturalism in youngsters is having greater impact .... might just be a phase though, bruv
 
bass_junkie83 said:
Is it unique to English?

I really struggle with learning languages, and one of the hardest things I find is understanding spoken word as it all sounds like a continuous jumbled mess with no clear separation between words.
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I find Italian spoken by Italian people at full Italian speed very difficult to keep up with. I've been learning for seven years now and that's still the case.

Despite it being over 30 years since I studied and used my French, I find I understand more of the French detective dramas on BBC4 than the Italian ones!
 
One of my daughters was like that, I would ask her to slow down and start again, She would be at full speed again before the bit I didn't get the first time.
 
onomatopoeia said:
I find Italian spoken by Italian people at full Italian speed very difficult to keep up with. I've been learning for seven years now and that's still the case.

Despite it being over 30 years since I studied and used my French, I find I understand more of the French detective dramas on BBC4 than the Italian ones!
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50% of my team are Italian, fortunately they all speak very good English, but when they are together talking in their native tongue I just give up.
 
onomatopoeia said:
I find Italian spoken by Italian people at full Italian speed very difficult to keep up with
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It's probably the same with every foreign language. I find French difficult to listen to. I have had many conversations with French people where I spoke French and the French person spoke English. Sounds odd, but works ok!

onomatopoeia said:
I consciously stopped writing cursive script when I was 13. It made my writing much more legible..
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Me too at about the same age. My scrawl became quite nice, non cursive handwriting just in time for O level exams.


Steve.
 
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stevewestern said:
I want to know why the letter 'T' has fallen from grace unless at the start of a word - even my wife, who is over 50 has started to say twenny instead of twenTy.
My 18 year old does much the same.
Thankfully my 13 year old has still got the ability to say something worth listening to, even if the subject is often less than interesting...
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Who needs Th to start or finish a word when there's always an F to replace it
"Firty fousand feathers on a frushes froat" is a good example

Same applies to H, never bothered with it, if you come from ackney you wouldn't, but probably would from itchin, arrow or ampstead eaf
 
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I call it 'Boneidleish'
 
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