Mumsnet Talk

If you can't be bothered to write a legible post why should people bother reading it? Everyone makes spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. The odd typo is accepted. It's only the extremes that are picked up on.

The posts full of text speak and truly atrocious spelling are often trolls playing a part.

The MNHQ stance on text speak can be found here:

www.mumsnet.com/info/accessibility

textspeak is difficult for people with visual impairments who use programmes to "read" words out so I think it should be discouraged.

But I do think the deliberate use of hectoring people about their spelling, grammar etc is a cheap shot. Mostly if I can understand a post I'll address the post, I'm a grown up and pretty literate myself so I can mostly understadn thigns even if they aren;t well written./

And I type so fast and badly taught that my posts are littered with typos anyway!

Adults using text speak deserve to be ridiculed IMO. Well, not actually ridiculed on my part but I do lower my opinion of them and their intelligence. Doesn't stop me helping if I could though.

If, as you say, MN should be a place for all mothers then you have to allow the grammar police the freedom to be here.

Text speak is very hard to read.

A lack of punctuation also make a post hard to read.

Poor spelling and/or grammar is largely irrelevant IMO.

I think it is funny that people (myself included) don't have a problem with people using the word cunt but hate the word hun

YABU

YABU

(ponders the hypocrisy of typing "YABU" to condemn text speak)

:-)

And I have seen seen the grammar police harrass someones spelling on a thread without realising she is blind and dictates her posts and is entirely at the mercy of the programme if it picks a bizarre spelling. I do find it very humbling that she never points this out to anyone.

Although soupdragon it could be argued that "MN" is a form of text speak, "IMO" definitely so...

TessCow Indented paragraphs are so 1980s.

Anyway, we all put up with Chaos. we can't be that bad.

<dusts typewriter>

Your point?

I'm just glad Shakespeare never got his hands on an Android

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief

bt soft, w@ lyt thru yonDr windO breaks? itz d east, n Juliet S d sun. Arise, fair sun, n kil d nVS m%n, huz alrdy sick n pale W grief

Why was reykjaviks post deleted?

I'd rather txtspk than posters who can't write in paragraphs. So ½ YANBU.

I have always thought that the abbreviations used on forums are very different to text speak. Txt spk deliberately spells words wrong, dat and dis for example and some words are spelt/altered so ridiculously that you actually use more letters than if you spelt it correctly! Totes stupid innit?

Or
Oi Romeo, wher da fuck iz u?

Why was I deleted? I was just jokingly responding to what mrsscoob said!

i hate text speach, I can not read it and i am not prepared to learn it.

Oh yes I hate it when people don't use paragraphs, I never read those posts, it hurts my brain.

SP!!