to hope that Mumsnet stays largely free of textspeak?

[Mintyy]

Or am I an old dinosaur who won't move with the times?

I've seen countless posts and thread titles with the abbreviation n instead of and recently.

I just want to say that I CAN'T STAND IT!!! but I know a lot of you will feel that Mumsnet needs to get with it.

Aibu to feel old decrepit?

[NecessaryWeevil]

Yanbu. There seems to be more and more about though.

[pointythings]

I thnk ur id is gr8.

[pointythings]

At which point I should add that I am one of those Luddites who take 8 hours to draft a single text message because I insist on capital letters and punctuation.

As you were.

[MirandaGoshawk]

YANBU. But my dch don't use txt spk now because their fancy phones do predictive text, which brings a whole new set of horrors - totally inexplicable words in the middle of sentences.

Bloody smartphones. Thick phones, more like.

[Mintyy]

Oh God yes, the blight on our lives that is predictive text!! Whoever invented that little gizmo should be deeply ashamed.

[MoonlightandRoses]

I'm with pointy.

No particular objection to text speak as such but it's still such a 'new' language for me that I end up moving my lips/reading the post out loud in order to understand it.

So that'd be an old duffer YANBU from me then.

[poachedeggs]

Yanbu.

[Lj8893]

Nothing to do with being old!
I'm 25 and use occasional text speak in erm texts, but that's about it!

Can't stand it on the Internet!

[pointythings]

I actually do hate text speak, it's just that I can understand why people would use it when they're on a crappy mobile phone keyboard. Unless they're me.

[PatPig]

no txt spk? r u srs m8?

[McNewPants2013]

I hate text speech.

I luv u c u l8ter kk if not c u 2mro

[MirandaGoshawk]

Once DH got a random (mistake) text that went: "huzis?"

We had to ask a child what it meant, and were told :"Who's this?"

So he texted back: "sme. huzat?"

Sadly, he never got a reply.

[LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti]

Me too. I find it really hard to read.

[CoffeeandNumbers]

Can we publicly flog the "mom" people too? That I find extremely irritating!!!

[Mintyy]

Who are the mom people?

[BOF]

I think that it should be more obvious when you register that text speak is discouraged on MN, because it wants to remain accessible for partially-sighted users and others who need to use audio software to be able to 'read' and participate.

I think when people realise that it is to show courtesy to those users, rather than a judgement on their intelligence which makes them feel unwelcome, then they are more likely to make the effort.

[FruOla]

"We had to ask a child what it meant" Miranda

Coffee, don't forget we have a number of American and Canadian MNers - and, apparently, 'mom' is commonly used in The Midlands as well.

[bearleftmonkeyright]

Mom is perfectly acceptable. It is used in the midlands. My dm always wrote Mom to my Nan on birthday cards.

[Morgause]

I'm old. I'm too old to try to work out text speak.

I like punctuation. I'm especially fond of apostrophes.

[LegoAcupuncture]

Yanbu I hate it as well.

I tend to steer clear of shops/services that use text speak in their name as well, a bit OTT but I just don't like it.

[Morgause]

Mom isn't used in this part of the Midlands but my Welsh Mum called her mum Mammy.

[BuskersCat]

wut u wan us 2 tlk propa u no tht itz nt ment 2b lyk a tst or r u a teaha or sank?

[HeffalumpTheFlump]

I find it harder to type in text speak than normal! Really can't see the point of it. Yanbu!

[FinallySaidMama]

One of the biggest reasons I came to Mumsnet was the lack of text speak! I'm only 28 so definitely not an age issue.

What I don't like however is the feeling that I should apologise for making the occasional spelling mistake. It's not my strong point and sometimes I think the 'spelling and grammar' police go a bit too far.