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?

I liked that, Hecate.
It's amazing how punctuation can completely change the tone of a sentence.

Message deleted for being peng.

Genuine lol (LOL - the fucking OUTRAGE) at peng.

nuts its nothing to do with intelligence
it is like speaking another language though - they are probably more intelligent
hth hun

Teenage son , what can I say

What's peng?

It means somethings good I think.

is it the antonym for reem?

Peng is good.

I rared up at dd in manner of Lady Bracknell 'what does peng mean' and she said it means cool. She also curled her lip at me during explanation.

I live in the Highlands.
It takes a while for teenspeak to get up here.
I'll be well ahead if ds ever utters it though [bugrin]

Hecate that was amazeballs.

Made me go cooo, like a pigeon :o

peng? To rhyme with, er - weng?

dunno.

I'm uncool.

I have fairly recently started exchanging text/emails with my brother (always communicated in person or on the phone before) due to issues with elderly parents requiring very frequent contact. I was shocked by my brother's excessive use of text speak! He is 12 years older than me (in his fifties) and also significantly more intelligent than me (we both have 'hard' degrees from 'good' universities but I know he wipes the floor with me intellectually). He does however act younger than me. Anyway, I would have agreed with you six months ago but now I'm not so sure.

Not keen on here but Txt speak took off to reduce the cost of texting as there is a limit to how many characters per text you can have... and it took off and developed into a 'language' of it's own, passed the development of contracts that allowed endless texting on bargainous contract deals.

But I cn spk fluent txt 2 mi DC's n it mks me chuckle TBH.

YABU to make assumptions about the level of intelligence of people who use text speak on here.... even intelligent people can be annoying

my keyboard has keys that work intermittently... shift, w and r mainly. the things I write do occasionally look like incomprehensible txt spk.

does mean that I hand out the odd though...

Oh dear- you are very silly and judgemental. I use txt speak in text msgs to so I type less and get more in. Sorry that you think Im less intelligent.

To be fair, ribeno. The OP said text speak in POSTS.

So was talking about the use of text speak on this message board, where there are no character limits, and not the use of it in text messages.

Language evolves. YABU.