AIBU to really, really hate

[NannyEggn0gg]

Bloody txtspeak on forums!!

It is happening more and more on here and it drives me nuts!
Even if you are posting from your phone, 'u' to 'you' and and 'urs' to 'yours' is just two more letters.
Would it really take that much time out of your day to type them?

Yanbu

Agreed, it's worse on facebook, I've deleted some people on there who can't type properly it's so irritating

Ur nt b'n unrsnble

Lol

Sticky keys there, MrsKeithRichards?

Don't no wot ur tlking abt.

You ok Hun?

I have seen text speak on job applications and in nursing notes. Smart phones really should have eliminated the need for text speak.

My friend who marks the final school exams in Ireland (Leaving Cert) says that she gets more and more textspeak in the English exams. I could understand it in History or Science where you might be trying to get some piece of information across quickly but in English?? She said she just puts a red line through the lot of it and considers it not to exist when marking which is a shame for those students as the content might be ok but the fact it's not actually written in English is the problem!

I no xacklee wot u mean op its fookin outrajuss

Aw hun u ok? Lol xoxo

Yolo

It's discustin

Tks 2 mch time 2 typ prop Hun.

Places 2 go, ppl 2 c, u gt me? Lol xx

I really, really hate you all!

On a slightly related note I have a chester draws for sale. Any offers?

Lmao chester drawers

U fink u are clevva sayin txt speek iz 4 fickos or sumfink?

Please stop, you are all hurting my eyes and making my poor little dyslexic brain melt out of my ears. I've had to teach myself 'textspeak' as a separate language to be able to read it, but this is some strange dialect you lot are currently employing.

YANBU. I couldn't agree more. My sister actually asked how my son was doing in skl in an email. She is 48. I told her he has never been to skl, but is doing very well at school.

Its even worse on another parenting site im ok.

Aw hun u ok lyk? Weres bubz 2day?

*on

I got a series of perfectly literate emails from a new friend, then one day she texted me from work where she couldn't send personal emails. It began 'hi m8' and went on in similar vein. I honestly thought some weirdo had got hold of her phone. It's bad enough in its natural medium, but inexcusable in any other setting.

Ah ha ha. U shlda xpectd dis op!

YANBU! I know someone who is a trained teacher but I've never seen a proper sentence come from her, it's ridiculous.

I came across old MSN conversations a few months ago and I have no idea what I was saying. There wasn't a vowel in sight.

We were just discussing this in work.

The consensus was that the worse the text speak, the more flowery, polysyllabic and lengthy our answers all become. Those texters probably don't even notice but it is a small victory for those of us who can speak and write proper.

YANBU. I have a friend who holds is a School Librarian. Her text messages are an astonishing mix of creative abbreviation and downright nonsense. All of which must take a great deal longer to type out than "proper" English.

I have, on more than one occasion asked her to resend a message in an understandable format. I wouldn't mind quite so much if she wasn't such a pedant about grammar and spelling in all other respects.

It's bad enough to read this shyte in a text. It's many times worse to have to wade through it on a forum intended for discussions. Nobody speaks in "txt" so why attempt a written debate in this abominable excuse for the written word?