I notice that some of the people who cannot spell are happy with this sort of texting. Spoiler Like B-Bob
Hey, leave the man alone... when he says his rectum seems to prolapse, darn it, we should believe him. Stop this nonsense about not trusting your ClutchFan brothers about knowing their rectal prolapses.
I'm a teenager. And I hate reading this ****. I mean there are some exceptions... like if you need to keep everything in a 160 character limit, and you go overboard. I don't have a problem with one or two word shortenings... But there is a huge difference between subtle changes: Hey, there is a party down the street. Do u wanna c*m? And this obnoxious POS: ay thrs a prty dwn teh strt. u wan c*m??!
My 16 year old cousin who is very smart says "dhet" and spells other stuff like that in her Facebook status. It gets on my nerves but I'm sure I do stuff that gets on a lot of peoples nerves.
That just makes you sound stupid. The only time I short-hand is when I didn't have unlimited texts and didn't want to send two messages instead of one message just because of two characters. So I would go and edit a "you" to just "u". I can't stand that type of texting. I even had this bad urge to go through my own texts and edit them to cut out useless words. But that just might be a habit from legal writing.
The the whole leet (l33t) thing made that kind of approach semi-acceptable. People were long butchering words online before texting came into prominence. Girls on their homepages would TyPe iN aLl KiNdS oF cUtEsY sIlLy DuMb WaYz LiKe DIS hEeR! I think some of that bled off into texting shorthand. Just an extension of the crap people were already doing. I still think its r****ded. Text based communication should follow how you talk or should follow standard grammar. At least with leet there's some actual UNIVERSAL standard. Phonetic deviation type text comes across too sloppy. I disagree with some of that. I think this time there really is some noticeable dumbing down starting to show in verbal and written ability. Some of these "official" blog sites have some of the most obvious mispellings ever. And they HAVE spell checks available to use! Are they texting their articles from their phones onto the site? Its convenience over quality
I don't let it bother me. I mean, its just words on a phone. I can tell most of the time what they're trying to say so I just let it slide. For me, its usually the girls or young folks who text like that.
I do this sometimes haha. I'll text something like "'Sup? Whatcha doing? Wanna meet up 2day?" Stuff like that.
