Literacy, where have you gone?

[skoobey]

Dear Lord, I am working with a client, and the amount of "street lingo" that is being used is more than I can bare. I decided to went a bit, and ask have you ever had a "pleasure" of working with clients of the illiterate variety?

Some of the terms being used by the client throughout our correspondence:

street ware(it's wear!)
boob
cuz (because I presume?)
yo

I am tempted to throw a book at the computer.

[Mike]

Re: Literacy, where have you gone?

"street ware(it's wear!)" You maybe wrong, it more like "Out there in the street ware it happened".

"cuz (because I presume?)" Maybe that's one of your relatives

"yo" could be the abbreviation of yo-yo?

And one more item for you to consider, the changing of a type of photography to a direction. We spent many years producing portraits and landscapes. Now those two words denote direction and I have not heard any of new words replacing them while discussing those types of photography. Just what was wrong with vertical and horizontal?

So now we ask, would you like a portrait portrait or a landscape portrait?

Or how about, "The smoke from the fire raised portraitly into the sky".

Maybe I am just getting old...........

[skoobey]

Re: Literacy, where have you gone?

"Her boobz need to look betta."

Nothing says landscape like that sentence, especially coming from an art director.

[MDWine]

Re: Literacy, where have you gone?

Eloquence, grammar, literacy... I miss the good 'ole days. In particular, the phrase "my bad" makes me cringe, as does "no problem" in response to a thank you.

Kids...

[shift studio]

Re: Literacy, where have you gone?

Eloquence, grammar, literacy... I miss the good 'ole days. In particular, the phrase "my bad" makes me cringe, as does "no problem" in response to a thank you.

Kids...

Haha - I say "no problem" instead of "you're welcome" very often - and I'm no kid.
"My Bad" is a pet peeve for me too.

--Shift Studio.