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Well im 5th form in NZ and about to go through my first exams, I am not going to use "txt speak". Txting has become a big part of teenage culture in NZ and dumb people can not tell the difference between formal and non-formal writing, these people should be shot. Seriously if anyone uses txt speak in their exams and they tell me, I shall slap them in the face. Anyways I'm moving out of NZ as soon as Engadget will give me a job :-D, We have to pay $1200 for a Freaking ps3 here, And you guys complain. Don't even bother talking about exchange rates, I still work just as hard for a dollar in my country!

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"Deputy Chief Executive, Qualifications, Bali Haque said there had been no change in the Authority's policy in regard to use of abbreviations in examinations.

Where an examination requires candidates to demonstrate language use - i.e. sentence structure, grammar, spelling - they would be penalised for using abbreviations, Mr Haque said.

Where an examination requires candidates to demonstrate understanding in an area of study other than language use, they need to clearly show the required understanding.

In these cases, use of abbreviations creates a risk of answers not being understood, Mr Haque said.

"The candidates' priority at all times should be to ensure their answers are clearly understandable to markers. The best way to do this is to use standard English," he said."

There has been no new "decision" on the matter at all. Conservative politicians and some sections of the media have simply picked up on the fact that that there is no formal "ban" on "text speak" per sé and turned this into "Nasty liberals corrupting our language".

The NZQA are simply applying their standard processes used whenever abbreviations or other incomplete forms of expression are used. What would people have them do instead? Fail anyone outright if an abbreviation or a "texting" creeps into someone's examination paper?


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