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Wut do u th1nk uv ppl who tipe leik dis?

I think they don't know how fast I delete their text messages. Down here, when you get pulled over the first thing a cop  does is check your text messages. I would at least want my criminal friends to appear halfway intelligent....
hahah.

I hate that crap.  Takes half as long to type so the recipient can spend three times as long trying to decipher it.  And if someone types like that, what they've got to say is never worth reading anyway.

a word i never use, but.... "amen"

When I see someone write in textspeak in a public forum, I conclude they're young and clueless about the wider world.  Not understanding that your particular slang/jargon isn't universal is either a sign of low intelligence or, more charitably, simple inexperience. 

I completely agree.

It depends. I see everyone's points, but there is a place for it I feel. Obviously it only fits where both sender and recipient are comfortable with it. It's used in gaming a bit, where one needs to get a message out fast, and other people generally know what is meant even with the misspellings and abbreviations.

That said, there's really three different methods being used in AJ's example. "wut", "u", and "ppl" are shorthand so to speak, just used to save time. "tipe" and "leik" are just misspellings, and "th1nk", "dis", and "uv" is just crappy, stupid netspeak. I see the situation where 'shorthand' is useful, and if time is an issue, then many misspellings are OK to leave be. It all depends on the environment, the 'rules' get looser in a private setting.

Idiots, that are rapidly destroying their language and literary skills, who also have no patience. Not only does my sister type like that, she talks like that too!  :buggedout:

When I was teaching I had students turn in assignments with these spellings.  They didn't know which was the real way to spell.
-Ed

As a cartoonist, I sometimes type certain words phonetically-such as "I think Imma gonna puke!" or "Yew gotta purdy mouf!"
But not the abbreveation crap. (I DO have a BIG spelling problem with certain words.)

I weep for the trashing of the language of Shakespeare and Churchill. :bluesad:

Bah I hate it!  OK sometimes I use “cuz” or “cos” – I don’t even know where “cos” came from, it doesn’t make sense, but I just picked it up.  I always try to make a point to spell things out, if anything just so I don’t forget how to spell!  Even when I played World of Warcraft I would spell stuff out, sometimes ignoring a random typo in the best interest of time, but even then I typed a lot faster than those abbreviating douchey gamers.  Although, I will purposely type like a douche when I’m pretending to be someone else, but that’s all in good fun!


RC you make a good point!  I don’t mind misspelling in a casual setting such as a forum if it is to portray how you actually speak.  Now I know I’m no historian,  and I know I’m putting my intellect on the line here which can be dangerous, but I believe before the widespread use of the printing press and the standardization of spelling, literature was written as it was spoken by the writer and that was completely acceptable as an intelligent way of writing.  I always like reading old poems and stories that are kept in their original written form because it gives a little glimpse into the dialect of a certain region and time period.  It kind of makes the modern way of writing seem stiff and boring.  That’s why I never really pay much mind to misspellings, especially when they’re obviously phonetic mistakes.

I do like BFF though, only because I can say it stands for Big Fat Friend.  And WTF because I don’t like to swear.

I had to take Ebonics my sophomore year at UT. Of four and a half year of college, that was the lowest score I have ever received in the entire history of my education.

You were required to take a course in a laguage that does not exist?
What the heck was your major?

here's what I think:
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2) I sometimes talk like DIS, but I don't give a rats ass about leet talk at all. If I text, it's usually with WORDS, not abbreviations! It's even more embarassing when a figgen English 3 student uses leet in their essays. I'm not an English teacher, but that there is a big ol' F-

At the time it was Lit. Trust me, I still don't see what the relevance was...

What bothers me is spelling errors are even starting to turn up in signage which tends to make the local population look quite frankly uneducated, or perhaps even worse, downright lazy. Actually saw "Slushies" spelled as "Slouches" on a sign not too long ago! "Coming soon...slouches!" - how exciting?!  :lookingup:

The only time I liked that kind of writing was when I hit 1334 posts here and the word LEET popped up.  :teddyr:

My brain is wired to only understand properly written English.  When I see stuff like that I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.  And not in a good way!!!   :buggedout:

Plus I think "moron" and delete it.

I can't stand poor English. I figured nobody here did either. I was hoping that some poor fool would come in and be like, "i tawk liek dat awl duh teim!" so I could give him a good "Boo". Even when I should rush to get a message out I have to use proper English or I get p**sed off. Even on text messages I use proper capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. My best classes in school were English and communication and I hope to do a little bit of writing before I become a director (Or more likely a ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com reviewer). I spell check everything I do before I post. Though I often mix up words. One time I embarrassed myself by mixing up "Noun" and "Vowel". I'd like to thank you all for knowing how the English language properly works. It reminds me how many intelligent individuals I'm surrounded by on the Badmovies.org forum.

I usually assume the person is some idiot kid. That spelling can make any statement sound dumb, and a dumb statement sound downright idiotic.

When you're sending a message from a phone with a regular keypad, I can see some practical use, although I wouldn't do it. When somebody does it with a full QWERTY keyboard, I assume they're lazy or stupid. Some of the abbreviations aren't even shorter than the proper words.

That said, I have been known to make limited us of LOL and maybe WTF. Those can be handy abbreviations, and they make a certain amount of sense. But typing an entire sentence like that? Using those abbreviations all the time? That's like the present-day equivalent of Valley Girl talk - the boneheaded jargon of airheaded teens.