to think that mumsnet should be a website for all mums regardless

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of literacy and the way they speak/type and should be welcoming to everyone? I cant fucking stand this perceived superiority over certain posters that use text speak, use of hun, lol, x's etc or the suggestion that they are somehow unsuitable for this forum and should bugger off to the other one.

As as for the fucking grammer police, fuck the fuck off. Just because someone maybe didn't use capitals, or misspelt a word, or hasn't posted perfect english, doesn't open their post to ridicule.

Oblomov go and have a look round Pedants' Corner.

It's not full of nit-pickers (I suspect there is no cross-over between them and people who are just rude to other posters for whatever reason they choose that day). There are some great threads about the history of the language and evolution of words, as well as friendly help for those who enquire about language issues.

at Shakey
"Romeo, Romeo, aw nooo man why iz it u av hapn'd to be frm da fmly dat my family diss and fite wiv, like alllll de time?"

genius!

Maybe the people on here who use text speak are youngsters. I used to work at a place where all the younger people wrote emails in text speak and I'm not even sure that they knew how to write the Queen's English. The standard of education has gone way down I tell you.

winces at 'weeding out the undesirables'

vola, I was only teasing. I do know some of thew serious threads that people talk about where words originate and latin etc.
I was refering to , many of that nasty nit pickers, picking on typing or words, prior to there ever being a Pendants Corner topic. I remember when the topics was only about 20 choices wide !!

fridgepants - seriously? But what would I know, I don't even have a mobile phone these days.

If you don't like the forum etiquette, fuck off to netmums where they love the hun,lolz,bubz and hubby shite. HTH

It's worth mentioning at this point, that internet abbreviations aren't the same as text speak.

"Pendants corner"

What Alien said. OP should take her advice and fuck the fuck off to places where no such basic standard of written communication is upheld.

grammar police, don't you mean?

I'm sure you'll manage, Maryz.

I really can't read text speak though, it takes me ages.
It's like doing a translation in my French O'level, and having to go through every word to make the sentence understandable.
It's really, really hard.

Maryz Yep, it's somewhere way up thread.

my particular favourite is perfetic

I like I'm discusted and appauled, usually written in shouty capitals.

My personal favourite is say lavvie (c'est la vie). Still makes me chortle.

My 11 year old dd was being given a lift home by her friend's dad the other day. He is called Jean-Pierre. She texted that "Xompier" was giving her a lift home. Guess she has never seen it written down before, bless her!