Come hither all those who hateth text speak

[onetiredmummy]

I wish to be unreasonable & share this with you all.

(Hamlet, Act Three, Scene One)

"2 b, r nt 2 b dat iz d Q
Wthr ts noblr n d mnd 2 sufr d slngs & arowz of outrAjs fortn
R 2 tAk armz agnst a C f trblz, & by oposn nd em?"

"To be, or not to be: that is the question: / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles / And by opposing end them?"

That i can cope with .. I do want to hit anyone who puts da instead of the and lil instead of little

Tis nobler to pay the full price for thy telegramme or text, cheap skate!

Shouldnt that be cheap sk8

I'm too old for text talk, it hurts my brain

I wrote cos on a thread earlier and instantly felt bad :( forgive me

neverrrrrr!!!!

I just text back saying 'sorry, but I only speak English'

Text speak should be a punishable offence ! I find it mildly annoying when teenagers do it, but when an adult say 'ill b l8' I want to delete them from my life!!

Where did it even come from? Someone told me that way back in the mists of time, when mobiles first came out, that you had to pay per character in a text message - is that so? I can't remember that at all.
Textspeak does my head in. It actually makes me want to hurt people. I suppose what I'd really like to do is sit them down and ask them why - why do they do it? Why do they think it's ok? And how many times am I going to have to hit them until they promise never to do it again?

Christ yes, my CM does it and also my 60 year old MIL. C U L8R kind of thing. I hate it. I almost defriended someone on Facebook over it as well (LOL at the end of a post).

"it actually makes me want to hurt people" :o

The word I hate the most is avo instead of afternoon. It makes me instantly tense up and I have to restrain myself from shouting "IT IS THIS AFTERNOON YOU TWUNT".

Lentilly I don't know about paying per character but I know there was no predictive text.

Ne way dats wot i thnk m8

When mobiles were first invented back in the olden days,you were only allowed a limited number of characters.Thats how text speak evolved.

No such thing as free texts back in the day either. It's just another form of shorthand it doesn't actually bother me in texts.

I have a friend that puts 'ven' instead of 'then', and 'dat' instead of 'that'. Seriously? Put in one extra letter and it would be the original word anyway. Hardly abbreviating is it. I love her dearly but when I recieve texts I want to shoot her!!!

This site is full of DS, HTH, IYSWIM,YANBU etc.

usual that's exactly what I always say

It is hypocritical of us to hate text speak when most of us can't be bothered to type a simple word like 'son'. I mean it's letter more than DS!

one letter more

But usual they are acronyms not txt spk.

I hate it, always have. Makes me feel stabby.

But what's the difference?

The acronyms are just as difficult to read to the untrained eye and are only there because we're too lazy to type the whole words...just like text speak.

Nah , I don't mind it,as long as I can understand the text then meh to how it's written.

Text speak makes me irrationally Stabby.

Weirdly,acronyms are fine ...

I have no rational explanations I'm afraid

I dont mind it in a text but nowhere else.I think acronyms have their place especially on mn where they are a sort of membership symbol.
If we start saying it doesnt matter how things are written then the whole of literature is irrelevant,the emphasis we place on children's reading and writing becomes meanigless and we may as well revert to grunts and hand signals for communication.

Text speak on facebook makes me all stabby.

and. It's already a very short word. Or as the txtrs wud av it, a lil 1.

So write the fucker out in full please. It seriously does my head in reading a post where every "and" has turned into an "n". I could better cope with an ampersand, tbh.

There's really little excuse for text speak nowadays. With predictive text it is as quick to write an understandable message in full as it is to hunt and peck for pointless abbreviations.

There's no excuse for text speak on an internet forum. Which is a quite different form of communication. Communication being the key word here...