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Teachers and Students => Debates => Topic started by: Angel Of Love on April 28, 2010, 09:53:41 am
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I know this is a bit not too thing to debate on but i was wondering that what if that now all big big people also uses jargons(okay=k, going to=gonna) then why not use then in formal letter too why only in informal when everyone understands it...
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By jargon I understand pointless high blown prose
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no Mr.Paul jargons are the short forms we use while chatting like i said we say i am going for a film people write it as
i am going for a film but am gonna go 4 a film this is jargons..
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Jargon means writing in a formal way I think.
Of course formality is important in corporate and business documents. Having a formal style and theme in all your documents will ensure your customers, suppliers and other stakeholders get a good image of the business concerned. If you write 'I'm gonna go to your office' it represents a casual image of your business.
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Sorry, have little time to explain. Just read... ;)
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/1914-/language/jargon.htm
http://www.audioenglish.net/dictionary/jargon.htm
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no guys with jargons i meant to say the short forms which is usually used while chatting... for example we say am wid ma frend but formally we use with, and friend
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I don't think we should make spelling mistakes in our writing, whether it be here or a formal business letter.
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k so now you guys got what a jargon means...and ya i agree to u stylish but now most of all people keep on usin such words only so why not always use them...look if you use jargons they will take less space then whole words and ion this way we can save papers right...??
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Excuse me, we do not call these jargons.
It's just a more contracted form of English than the one we know already.
Can not > can't
Do not > don't
This can't, don't, 't form itself is not accepted in formal language.
Zis language hs neva bin a part of English. It's just a 'convenient' (really ::)?) way of typing new generations have unfortunately adopted.
Don't even think of writing that in a formal piece.
Everybody does not use the same contracted form, and it has been remarked to vary from country to country, while English is supposed to be a universal language.
If I am so irritated and annoyed when people write (leave whatever) however they wish to, imagine how the examiner would be.
We once had a case in Mauritius, where a student was so addicted to 'texting' that he wrote the whole essay in text form. It was a news... not very well agreed to... by the examiners. Actually, it was catastrophic.
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Yes, We can save a very small amount of papers. But it'll not be worth the sacrifice! ::)
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no Mr.Paul jargons are the short forms we use while chatting like i said we say i am going for a film people write it as i am going for a film but am gonna go 4 a film this is jargons..
my dean teaches us applied mechanics an he uses jargons to make it fun
if there is 4N from the left, im gonna supply 4N from the right... etc etc
he rocks :D
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my dean teaches us applied mechanics an he uses jargons to make it fun
if there is 4N from the left, im gonna supply 4N from the right... etc etc
he rocks :D
We don't call these jargons. :'(
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@Alpha i agree these aren't jargons but his is what i have heard...and if not jargons are they known as slang language i mean i am not sure 'cause i have always heard that these are known as jargons...
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We don't call these jargons. :'(
he uses "wanna", u wanna do this or u wanna do that :P
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It's a contracted English form, as I explained earlier. Some people call it sms language.
And no, slang is different. It's an informal language, yeah, but it's written full. It's a kind peer language, used by particular groups.
Like the word "nerd", it's a slang, used mostly by peers, by you people here. ;) And lol, I bet you know the meaning better than me. :D
Some people write "nrd" as the contracted form of "nerd". That's a different style.
"Wanna" is a contraction of "want to" / "want a".
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all right i got it alpha but i will keep this debate as in using jargons only and they will mean what jargons actually mean(words and expressions that are used in special or technical ways by particular groups of people, often making the language difficult to understand.)so we can have that should jargons be used in formal letters...
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all right i got it alpha but i will keep this debate as in using jargons only and they will mean what jargons actually mean(words and expressions that are used in special or technical ways by particular groups of people, often making the language difficult to understand.)so we can have that should jargons be used in formal letters...
Alright. :) I really hope I cleared the confusion.
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yeah you definitely did..
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We are debugging the program by setting breakpoints and afterwards by step wise refinement.
Do you understand that?! Its called jargon!
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We are debugging the program by setting breakpoints and afterwards by step wise refinement.
Do you understand that?! Its called jargon!
Yes, exactly.