Can someone actually be that illiterate?

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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:30 pm

Tara Gilesbie (Also known as "Tata Gliesbie or Tara Gilespie) is the author to the infamous Harry Potter fanfiction known as "My Immortal" and the sequel "My Immortal 2: Wake Me Up Inside." Claims to be from Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and apparently travels to the USA everyday to shop at Hot topic. Her writing style is so horrible that it's like she's talking in some sort of code.

Examples of her rape on the English language:

Quote:

Im Tara. Im a Satanistr and if u dont lik me coz of dat den FUK OFF!. if ur a prep or a pozr den fuk off 2 koz ur gay!! here r sum fingz u shud no abot me.

likez: gothz, being goffik, satan, punkz, da coler black, bloood, ma bf Justin, rok muzik, suicide, vampirez, joel madden, edard kullen!!

dislikez: prepz, posers, pink, beng alive, homphobez, skool, life, barbie, flamerz

Quote:

4 da last tim 4 ne1 redding muh stroy STOP FLOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111 if u du den u wil b a prep or a posr ok so FOK U!!!!!!1 weel neway da exomz r over lolz so im gong 2 go c shork atak 7 dep water wif fily nd kiwi 2day LOLZ!!!11 den we wil al kut lolz dso fok al u prepz!!1111111111111111111111111111111111111

Quote:

Well mi name iz Twila Beautiful Psycho Topaz Cullen, I'm a gothik 16-yr-old gurl. I LUVE da stori Twilite (geddit dats were I got mi name). Ok so I'm riting mi own stori, PLZPLZPLZ reveiw it a lot becuz i am deprezzed nd if ppl dnt giv me feedbak im gong 2 kut miself.

I have strait blakk hair, topaz eyez, white skin, nd I'm realli thin but I have big boobz. somtimez i dye mi hair differnt gothik colors. I luv MCR, good chralotte, evanasece, avrel lavign, marlon manson, simple plan, bink-182, nd da other gothik bands. I HATE PREPZ. nd I hate skewl, i usually kut (lol geddit cuz i kut miself.) if u want to no more then EMAIL ME OK, ND IF U FLAMM MI STORI DEN FOKK U.

XXX666XXX666XXX666XXX666XXX666XXX666XXX666XXX666XXX666

MY HEROEZ R TARA GILSBIE I FINK SHE IS DA BEST FANFIC RITER OUT DERE. AND IF U FINK IM HER DEN UR STUPID, BUT FANKS FOR DA COMPLEMINT.

XXXXXXUPDAT: PLZ RED!!XXXXXX

OMG OK U GUYZ MY FOKIN STROY WAS DELTIED. OMFG. FANFIK.NOT DELTED IT BECUZ OF BAD GRAMMOR ND THEY R FUKEIN PREPZ OK. I silted my ritz when I fond out aboot this. I no u guys relly liked 2 red it but now it is gone. Plz massage me if u want tho.

MCR ROX

Twila possibly Tara Gilesbie under a different name.

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:39 pm

Is she a LOLcat?

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:46 pm

Quote:

Can someone actually be that illiterate?

Yes.

Believe it or not, there are quite a few countries that don't speak or use English as their native tongue. In fact I heard there is this entire continent called 'Europe' that has many different languages.

However, they are great insults. I believe she is speaking the language called 'Frustrated beyond belief' Very Happy

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Nurse Nasty wrote:

Believe it or not, there are quite a few countries that don't speak or use English as their native tongue.

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:49 pm

Have a look through Bebo pages, This illiterate text speak shite is all over the place. It's so disheartening to read, can you imagine buying the Sunday Times in a few years and seeing the headline:

Quote:

Trv ets buns fr kiks

Bring back the cane!

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:20 am

@ Koko.Dk, you seem surprised to learn that there are other languages too Laughing

It's not all the same like Mormon country, some people have no clue what a Tim Horton's or a Starbucks is, about 5+ billion of the 6 we have today Wink

I guess it's time for a long road trip for you. Laughing

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

u nau, u fit wan fo cheque out dis informations ,it go probably hep u wit ur situation

Click

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:38 am

Do not confuse f****d up English with other languages. My native language is NOT English and I think I speak (and write) E. quite well.
But, to be honest, even if I try I cannot murderize and butcher English so badly.
I think it's a troll. In order to butcher any language so bad, you have to know it well enough.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^^Your English is great, but there is sometimes a need in certain areas of the world for for pidgen. It is a product of Functionalism, in the sociological sense, and in my humble opinion an ingenious adaptation to cross the border of differences between languages.

Chuck Norris Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 1369

It's not the work of a non native speaker though and it looks like no pidgin I have ever seen.

She's either incredibly moronic or a troll who writes as though her work was put through this:

http://ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslator.html

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:34 am

The sad thing is that some of my college students actually turn in term papers written kind of like this.......... LOL and all!!!!

I even once got a Smile

at the end of a sentence!!

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:56 am

Goth Teenager Syndrome. Exactly the sort of sh*t my daughter used to come out with when she was about 15. Not illiterate, just trying to look cool (kewl?) among her friends.

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:37 am

I have a teenage daughter and, yes, they actually talk like that. Too many piercings I guess.....

Not quite a Newb Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Posts: 64

HELP! I have 2 daughters under 10 ... Will I have to face this in a few years?

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:15 am

By then it'll probably be 'Ye Olde Englishe'

Laughing

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:21 pm

Quote:

Can someone actually be that illiterate?

I have heard some are so illiterate they cannot even read and write! Shocked

I'm just being a smart arse.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Akai Ryu wrote:

it looks like no pidgin I have ever seen.

I have to admit, I really didn't read the text in question, and it is most certainly 16 year old "text message speak".

But interestingly enough it could be considered Pidgen in a generic sense. Not the West African type that we are used to, but a language created by teens, that in some instances have different native languages, to create a common, understandable communication mode to be used on the internet.

I am off to apply for a grant to study this more.

Baiting Guru Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 2163

got a link to the stories?

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:03 pm

Fanfiction.net took down her stories but there are dramatic readings of her works on youtube. There is also an encyclopedia dramatica page about her.

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/tara_gilesbie
*Note that Encyclopedia Dramatica loves to bash anything and everything the post on their site. There are even many Youtube users on there as well.*

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:11 pm

Nurse Nasty: I know that not everyone speaks English. I'm an aspiring polyglot after all. But even the foreigners I've met write better English than Tara Gilesbie. It seems nearly impossible to write that way unless someone was uneducated and sneaks into internet cafés but I doubt that.

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:25 pm

NN wrote:

Believe it or not, there are quite a few countries that don't speak or use English as their native tongue.

Yes, it is tragic. We've let that go on for too long.

They're next....... Wink

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:40 pm

Eliza_Doolittle wrote:

I even once got a Smile

at the end of a sentence!!

Be happy, you English speakers, that you don't have to study Korean... Cool

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:31 pm

Niagara, O roar again: Do Koreans rape their language really badly or something?

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

PROTIP: Please don't use fancy colors, black is just fine with 99.9% of the Eater population.

That yellow is really hard to read.

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:06 am

I have been learning Kiswahili for a few years now. It is really tough since the mechanics of the language are very different fron English or any of the romantic languages. Korean and all the languages of southeast Asia have the same complexity.

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