2 wnt grwn adltz wiv fn contrctz 2 writ n englsh?

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oh gawd it makes me want to SCREAM

I understand one handed typing (NAK or multi-tasking etc.)
Or small, quick messages when you're in a rush( 'cld u plz cal me')
Or use of slang/in jokes with a close friend/DP
I can even grit my teeth be understanding if you don't have much credit left and are trying to squeeze all relevant information into one text

but when two grown women with professional qualifications, with free contact mobiles with unlimited free SMS, just having an interaction regarding when we might be able to meet up I'm hoping for better than:

'Yes.bt iv gt cold on my bak..its so chily. Yeh,wud b nice2 c u. Du u go out muj?'

Du I????????

AIBU to expect, prefer, long for 'proper' texts.

Yanbu.

YANBU not that I understood most of the above

Doesn't bother me how other people text each other

New friend, yes? If this were a new friend I was arranging to meet up with, I'd be a bit (not one of my friends texts like this) but probably hang fire with the judgy pants until we'd spent more time together....

YAB a little bit U. You are moaning that people are texting in text speak. Really? Fair enough if they were applying for a job, or sending a formal letter, but a text between 2 friends, I could live with.

Me too old, I no understand.
My phone has a keyboard and good predictive text. It won't let me talk that rubbish unless I turn everything off.

My mother was given one of those jokey "Text dictionary" mini-books by her sister about eight years ago. They must be the only people in the world to have taken said dictionary seriously.

My 67 year old mother texts like a teenager in 2002 - she's switched off the auto-predict function since it interferes with her txt spk. "G8 2cu njoy we wiv lol xxx" etc, although my favourites are the ones which say things like "W8in 4 uncle d 2cum lol m xxx". My sister and I are both hoping the other one eventually gives in first and explains why the spelling "cum" is best avoided.

Arf @ Carrie

My Mum can't grasp how to insert punctuation symbols into her texts, so she has a baffling txtspk all of her own which consists of a gap where every punctuation mark would be.

Yay lets turn this into another Funny Things that our Dear Ole' Mums do with Technology thread.

My mum once sent me about 20 blank texts ,at least your mum knows how to actually write them

My mum is the worst for text speak too. The other day she typed dss's name as 'Hari'. You can't go round changing the spelling of people's names!

what grates me nips is when you get a reply of 'ok' when you've clearly asked a question

then i pick up the phone, and make a call! yup, real actual talking to people!

I don't care if I am not involved in the text, but I have been known to just repeatedly respond to people who text me like the above with, "What?" until they send me a text written out correctly.

I have no interest in decyphering your stupid text speak and if that bothers you, then you should probably just call me.

santa the only thing my step-Dad has ever text me is OK! It doesn't matter what I ask, he says OK (hmm might try asking for a few hundred pounds )
My sons GodFather uses so much 'txt spk' I have to ask my streetwise Mum of teenager friends to translate them!
Sometimes I look like I have used txt spk, when in actual fact it's that my phone is shit for typing on and misses letters out

I stand corrected, she does include some interesting punctuation. Selected at random:

"Got some lovely holly loads o red berries be nice on your fire place praps bring Fri .Re wool they will put it by till I can get in good eh 5er a ball still ,X that s J lewis o course. the rest , well , chin up you know how ignore evry thing thats shit !"

Completely SIC, spaces n' all. Heheh gotta love the 'Prumother. How that woman taught me to read aged 3 remains a mystery

Sorry I have no idea what your title meant. But yabu because I loathe text speak.

Yanbu even. Bloody autocorrect, the only thing I hate more than text speak!

Vivi not a new friend actually. I think I find it so astounding every time is because I know she's highly qualified and multi-lingual.

rootie but it's incomprehensible!
I'm guilty of using text speak, especially when in a hurry; cld, wld, u etc.
But 'muj'? And 'du'? It's the same amount of characters as the standard version of the word, why not just put 'do'?

is because? heaven help me, it's contagious ...

I have no idea what any of that was.

But I bet they'd get a high score in scrabble.

I cannot abide text speak.

it makes my head hurt trying to understand it in a text message but when you see it on screen, where someone has typed it like that...I judge. Sorry but i do.

I am the Lynne Truss of texting. I insist on inserting all proper punctuation marks, writing out everything in full and using correct spelling. I am smug, but very slow

yabu. Obvious you have made this up.

If not...you need new friends?

PointyLittleDonkeyEars

I hear you on the Lynne Truss approach. I'm the same as you. My kids are going to hate me when they're old enough for phones and I insist that they use proper spelling, grammar and punctuation if they want me to take notice. What's the betting that they'll only ever follow that rule when they want/need something.

Oh you are not BU. I was so happy when a school friend got in touch on facebook, but I had to delete her. She was the same age as me, and had the same education as me but everything she wrote was I text speak. 'ya hunni I cd du tat, cu soon, tat wd b g8'. Drove me insane if I even saw a status update, let alone if she sent me a message. Shudder.