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.

I understand textspeak even though I do not use it. It may take me a while to work it out, but generally I start with the assumption that I want to understand people, rather than dismiss them as thick and lazy.

but making that choice means you are perceived differently.

writing in text speak makes you appear thick and lazy - you might not want to, you might not be, but that is how you come across if you choose to write in text speak.

And there is an addition to this in that children increasingly using text speak means we are now ending up with a generation of children who are in fact unable to spell. On what planet is that acceptable?

If u just look at the grammar and miss the message then u r a massive twat tbh...

But to add we are all adults here so don't need correcting by other adults..

Obviously we correct our kids but don't think they are desperate to read messages on mumsnet tbh...

my screenreader actually pronounces text speak differently to proper speak. I am actually tempted now to make a recording and upload it here since I have had so many queries about it over the years.

i don't really judge people on how they write on the internet. to me it really isn't that important and i certainly would not suggest they were 'thick'

this site really is quite silly sometimes

Everything wheresmespecs said.

Also, to those who judge text speak users so harshly, claiming that they themselves are so superior that they are unable even to understand it:

Wot r u? A bit fick?

Poor spelling and grammar has nothing to do with being on benefits- but it seems more prevalent on those that are.

Anyone who thinks I am being snobbish about Netmums should check out some of the posts- such inarticulate, poorly spelled crap! Most primary kids could write something better.

Also, there are loads of people on Netmums with about four kids who live on benefits, and anybody who dares disagree with that lifestyle choice is denounced. The Mods are clearly the same- they ban people just for having an alternative view!

oh I can read it, I just choose not to.

If someone can't actually be bothered to make the effort to write in proper words then I don't see why anyone else should be bothered to read it.

Thanks wannaBe. Do you use a Braille keyboard or an ordinary qwerty board?

I have four children, if something happened we may need benefits, do we suddenly become less valuable people?

an ordinary qwerty one. I've been touch-typing since I was seven.

I have NO issue with spelling mistakes but cannot abide text speak. Saying that,I would not judge anyone on their spelling/grammar (openly) unless it was in pedantic post criticising someone else - and this has been known....

dear me, anyway the four children judginess apart, i am heartened to read that some people on mn don't pre-judge on people based on whether they use text speak or not

Y iz u all getin lairy?

Arisbottle-

I'm talking about people who have done it knowing full well that they could not afford the children. Also, those who make endless excuses about why they are unwilling to work.

germyrabbit, i sadly feel that we are most definitely in the minority here!

fridgepants- Why isn't it a lifestyle choice exactly, then?

Besides, lack of education is also partly a choice. There are free adult literacy courses available and we still have some free public libraries.

WannaBe- there are also plenty of adults who can't spell and would struggle even to fill a form in!

"MurderOfGoths- What has my username got to do with it?"

I figured if you were going to be picky and make assumptions about people based on very little that you wouldn't mind if someone did the same to you? Obviously I was wrong. Don't dish it out if you can't take it. HTH.