Some of you all really think Prince invented it??

I think I have finally heard it all...

purplemookiebut said:

its more the carpel tunnels really..less typing the less my wrists will hurt! i grew out the h part. still the add makes me not read the really long posts. i just scroll after awhile. i don't see why i need to worry about punctuation and all that stuff when i can get my point across without it. it's not like i'm writing a term paper for a grade. this drives my good friend corryn crazy. she's a sp/ed teacher too!

It's your prerogative to use it. Don't make excuses...

I was just amazed at the people who thought Prince invented it!

tinaz said:

Some of you all really think Prince invented it??

I think I have finally heard it all...

I think we all agree he has a lil something to do with short wording becoming mainstream..im saying a lil something...im not saying fully responsible...

prince didn't invent it. but i did cut down alot more words after seeing ways that he did..

pain is a good reason. less typing..les sharp pains up and down my arms

purplemookiebut said:

prince didn't invent it. but i did cut down alot more words after seeing ways that he did..

pain is a good reason. less typing..les sharp pains up and down my arms

I Feel 4 U

Revolution said:

chocolate1 said:

The OP was relating it to texting....

Not everyone who uses text messages is "versed" in Prince-speak.

The more attention that Prince received, the more people went back to check out his back catalogue of music and discovered his weird shortcuts for words....his relevancy in popular culture cannot be denied or the influence diminished.

Not everyone is versed, as you say, however, everyone is influenced by popular culture.

A few can move mountains.

Prince invented shortcuts for words....if not, he certainly is the one who made it popular.

Again, i ask, who did this before '79?

Dez Dickerson. The one, who Prince lifted it off of.

I don't think Prince invented it, but I do recall in '84 or '85, seeing a video for Culture Club's 'I'll Tumble 4 Ya', and thinking, "Who the fuck do you think you are? You can't do that '4' shit! That's Prince's thing!"

eyewishuheaven said:

I don't think Prince invented it, but I do recall in '84 or '85, seeing a video for Culture Club's 'I'll Tumble 4 Ya', and thinking, "Who the fuck do you think you are? You can't do that '4' shit! That's Prince's thing!"

"I'll Tumble 4 Ya" is from their 1982 debut album.

Efan said:

eyewishuheaven said:

I don't think Prince invented it, but I do recall in '84 or '85, seeing a video for Culture Club's 'I'll Tumble 4 Ya', and thinking, "Who the fuck do you think you are? You can't do that '4' shit! That's Prince's thing!"

"I'll Tumble 4 Ya" is from their 1982 debut album.

then eyewishuheaven saw it a couple years later...doesnt discount what was said...only strengthens it.

Yes, I wasn't aware of that song 'til after Purple Rain came out (Culture Club was around in '82? Whoah!). No offense to you, Efan, I'm a big fan of your posts, and your 'Opus' avatar.

More quality thread action...

Spinlight said:

More quality thread action...

Please direct us to your latest quality post, then we will determine if you are justified in your claims of quality or facetiousness.

I'm only going to say this once: If your carpal tunnel is so bad that you need to use Princebonics just to drop a couple characters, you need to quit texting so much.

Genesia said:

I'm only going to say this once: If your carpal tunnel is so bad that you need to use Princebonics just to drop a couple characters, you need to quit texting so much.

what is wrong with using "princebonics"?

lotusboy said:

Genesia said:

I'm only going to say this once: If your carpal tunnel is so bad that you need to use Princebonics just to drop a couple characters, you need to quit texting so much.

what is wrong with using "princebonics"?

You mean aside from the fact that it's stupid coming from anyone but Prince, himself?

lotusboy said:

Genesia said:

I'm only going to say this once: If your carpal tunnel is so bad that you need to use Princebonics just to drop a couple characters, you need to quit texting so much.

what is wrong with using "princebonics"?

When I first started posting, I was all "fammy" and thought that I should use it around here...

Boy, did I learn fast...

It's not necessary, and most of the time it's hard to read.

chocolate1 said:

lotusboy said:

what is wrong with using "princebonics"?

When I first started posting, I was all "fammy" and thought that I should use it around here...

Boy, did I learn fast...

It's not necessary, and most of the time it's hard to read.

But totally in character for people who can't even be bothered to use capital letters and punctuation.

I actually skip posts that are written like that, 'cause I just can't take it.

chocolate1 said:

lotusboy said:

what is wrong with using "princebonics"?

When I first started posting, I was all "fammy" and thought that I should use it around here...

Boy, did I learn fast...

It's not necessary, and most of the time it's hard to read.

Being on the Org already denotes being "Fammy"..if your on here, your Fammy"...period. (whether u like it or not)!

lotusboy said:

chocolate1 said:

When I first started posting, I was all "fammy" and thought that I should use it around here...

Boy, did I learn fast...

It's not necessary, and most of the time it's hard to read.

Being on the Org already denotes being "Fammy"..if your on here, your Fammy"...period. (whether u like it or not)!

Wrong.

There is being a fan of the man's music...

Then there's being obsessed with his looks, clothes, hair, who he's dating, what he eats,.... and thinking that you need to write like that... FAM.

Being on here just means that I like it better than other sites.

chocolate1 said:

lotusboy said:

Being on the Org already denotes being "Fammy"..if your on here, your Fammy"...period. (whether u like it or not)!

Wrong.

There is being a fan of the man's music...

Then there's being obsessed with his looks, clothes, hair, who he's dating, what he eats,.... and thinking that you need to write like that... FAM.

Being on here just means that I like it better than other sites.

WRONG! any average fan does not come on this site..this site is for FAMS! (or fams in denial) You are a FAM chocolate1...sorry to burst your bubble!

lotusboy said:

chocolate1 said:

Wrong.

There is being a fan of the man's music...

Then there's being obsessed with his looks, clothes, hair, who he's dating, what he eats,.... and thinking that you need to write like that... FAM.

Being on here just means that I like it better than other sites.

WRONG! any average fan does not come on this site..this site is for FAMS! (or fams in denial) You are a FAM chocolate1...sorry to burst your bubble!

Okay, okay... joke's over. Not laughing.

Soooooo not a FAM.

If anything, being on here means that I'm bored and/or procrastinating.

I just happened to pick this site to do it on.

[Edited 1/7/11 14:35pm]

chocolate1 said:

lotusboy said:

Being on the Org already denotes being "Fammy"..if your on here, your Fammy"...period. (whether u like it or not)!

Wrong.

There is being a fan of the man's music...

Then there's being obsessed with his looks, clothes, hair, who he's dating, what he eats,.... and thinking that you need to write like that... FAM.

Being on here just means that I like it better than other sites.

lolz, Don't bother. The people who are too thick-headed to accept everyone's differences (aka the "Fams") always try to brainwash or condescend. You won't convince them otherwise, so why try?

eyewishuheaven said:

I actually skip posts that are written like that, 'cause I just can't take it.

Me too. It's fucking annoying and I figure the post must be worthless if typed in Fambonics. Of course, my posts don't have a lot of value either...

lotusboy said:

tinaz said:

Some of you all really think Prince invented it??

I think I have finally heard it all...

I think we all agree he has a lil something to do with short wording becoming mainstream..im saying a lil something...im not saying fully responsible...

No. There was life before Prince's music career, and during and will be afterwards. The majority of the world, a good 99.9% have no interest in him and his music.

Prince did not having anything to do with it becoming mainstream, not even a lil something. Its to do with money and laziness.

There's no way Prince invented that lmao.. that was a big thing in 60s & 70s cartoons and children's materials (books, coloring books, activity magazines, etc.) to type numbers and letters in place of words.. even if you're simply saying he was the first musician to use this cutesy way of typing that's also false. If anything he lifted a lot of his practices from the old funk records like Sly and P Funk (which had titles foreshadowing superfunkycalifragisexy)

The less naive you are the more you realize Prince didn't really necessarily invent anything, he was very much a product of the trends of the time, though he did well at taking trends such as funk rock, r&b and new wave and combine them to come up with some cool sounds (he wasn't even the only 80s artist to do this though, he was just really good at it).. even the crazy Purple Rain outfits and hairdo you can trace back to the 60s mod scene as well as Hendrix and Little Richard, the dance moves from James Brown, the bass playing from Bootsy and Graham, etc, etc.

weirdozmedia said:

There's no way Prince invented that lmao.. that was a big thing in 60s & 70s cartoons and children's materials (books, coloring books, activity magazines, etc.) to type numbers and letters in place of words.. even if you're simply saying he was the first musician to use this cutesy way of typing that's also false. If anything he lifted a lot of his practices from the old funk records like Sly and P Funk (which had titles foreshadowing superfunkycalifragisexy)

The less naive you are the more you realize Prince didn't really necessarily invent anything, he was very much a product of the trends of the time, though he did well at taking trends such as funk rock, r&b and new wave and combine them to come up with some cool sounds (he wasn't even the only 80s artist to do this though, he was just really good at it).. even the crazy Purple Rain outfits and hairdo you can trace back to the 60s mod scene as well as Hendrix and Little Richard, the dance moves from James Brown, the bass playing from Bootsy and Graham, etc, etc.

Thanks for the winded lecture on all that but here's my original post; how responsible do u think Prince is for the way most people text/shorten words today? i.e. "2" for the word two/to/too etc. ? do u have any other examples?

No where in that post do I say PRINCE INVENTED SHORTENED TEXTING!! wow...people see what they wanna see.

tinaz said:

Some of you all really think Prince invented it??

I think I have finally heard it all...

AGAIN; My original post!!!; how responsible do u think Prince is for the way most people text/shorten words today? i.e. "2" for the word two/to/too etc. ? do u have any other examples?

Nothing in there or any following comments by other orgers say he invented it...

See thread "Cant make you love me" for example....

lotusboy said:

tinaz said:

Some of you all really think Prince invented it??

I think I have finally heard it all...

AGAIN; My original post!!!; how responsible do u think Prince is for the way most people text/shorten words today? i.e. "2" for the word two/to/too etc. ? do u have any other examples?

Nothing in there or any following comments by other orgers say he invented it...

First of all... Whats with the yelling...

Second of all... Did you not read post number 2... it was right below your original post in case you skipped over it..

Third of all... just because you post a question doesnt mean I have to answer it directly, and ONLY that question... this is a discussion in a forum where we DISCUSS things... Its not that serious...