To think people who use text speak in posts are probably less intelligent?

[lesley33]

Just as the title says really - that if you use text speak in your posts I do assume that you are probably a less intelligent poster.
AIBU?

Not less intelligent, but certainly annoying and lazy. Plus it's more difficult to understand.

The same goes for lack of punctuation and paragraphs.

Regardless of age, text speak is for texting. Period

Or they are using the internet on a crap phone without a proper keyboard.

Why would it be assumed that they are younger?
I dont type in text speak, and i am young (and now slightly offended). I don't think it is an accurate judgement of peoples intelligence! You may think that misspelling or bad grammer is a sign of low intelligence, but it also a sign of dyslexia (which i know i have). My father has dyslexia and he is the smartest man i know. I saw a thread the other day where the poster was being pulled apart for her misuse of 'of'. It had nothing to do with the context of the post, just people being pedantic. If text speak is not ok on the boards, then why is DD, DP, DS, DSS, IYSWIM, MIL etc.?

greeneyes [bushock]

YABU and tbh, are showing your lack of understandng on what 'intelligence' means, don't confuse it with educated or articulate.

at GreenEyes [bugrin]

I cba with punctuation most of the time on here

I'm with you, Rhino.

It's very obvious when I post from my iPod instead of a computer.

Regardless of age, text speak is for texting. Period

There is a full stop missing at the end. Which proves a point, MN isn't a test of academic writing, so doesn't need to be exactly correct.

I don't care about spelling or grammar actually.

Yanbu. My iPhone won't let me shorten words. I never use text speak for text messages.
I never take a post seriously if it's all writn lyk this coz it's anoyin init

[bugrin]

Although someone said they were 'morto' about something in a post the other day which made me feel a bit old

Is it really that different from using other abbreviations & TLAs, very rife online?
I use txtspk when I need to do 1ht.

ooohhh lesley judgey much?

Are you crying??

Oh no that's just your judgey pants hoiked up so far they are making your eyes water.

Euphemia

Because I'm using the common language of the majority, which includes some contracted words intended to allow written communication to mimic oral. The same goes for common acronyms unique to MN, like YANBU and IYSWIM.

Using for example "sumtin" instead of "something" would bemuse and potentially alienate a proportion of the few who can arsed people who read my posts.

After a few vodkas on a Friday night its a wonder anyone can read my posts at all

I find it annoying because it is like a whole different language. It's like being faced with a passage in French - I can translate it but it would take time and effort on my part so I just move on without reading it.

I would assume they were young, not thick.

[busmile]

Birds, "Period" is not a sentence anyway.
Besides, sentences should not start with "or", either. :o

TBH, I don't mind some abbreviations. However, full on text speak is annoying to be because I'm not used to it and it's difficult for me to decode it.
It might be second nature to some, but I do feel it's out of place in message boards.
My problem, of course, and I may stop reading a message if it's too dense (text speak, or consistently no punctuation).

It may be the pps loss or mine.

well i use abbreviations like tho and altho because i am lazy. i don't use text speak because i have no idea what it means and it would take me longer to work it out than type the whole word.

Are abbreviations allowed on your intelligent MN lesley?

Text speak should be for texting, if you are that way inclined. I've never used it, hate it.

What really boils my piss annoys me is when people type in their regional dialect. have you ever tried to read a Facebook update written in Geordie? Bloody hard work, and I'm a Geordie.

Birds

I like reading posts in peoples regional dialect , it makes that person seem more real to me