To not understand why some people write 'kin' instead of 'can', 'wan' instead of 'one' etc?

[FiveSugarsPlease]

Not sure if it's just a Scottish thing (since i don't know many people who aren't Scottish), but why on earth wouldn't you just write the correct spelling when it has the same amount of letters as the wrong spelling?

I'm Scottish too, but i don't thing i've ever wrote in 'Scots' before. Lately, I've noticed a lot of my friends texting me in this way, or people's comments on FB.

Here's an excerpt of the latest convo on my newsfeed between my friend and someone he knows:

Yae doin anyhin tonight babez?
Naw, nuhin dawl. U uptae anyhin?
Naw kin a jist cum roon tae yours en?
Aye nae bother. Pm me.

WHY? I realise this is a very trivial thing, but i just don't get it. Surely it would be quicker to write 'No' than 'Naw'?

Would drive me garretty tbh. I can't even stand 'hunni' - really can't stand it - same amount of letters as 'honey' so why do it? Just why?
There will be someone along shortly who'll say all this doesn't matter and that language evolves blah blah blah

Because they want to?

I love Gary, Tank Commander.

Ach wind yer neck in ye crabbit besom

Irvine Welsh fans perhaps?

Well, tbh, if that's how they would chat to each other in RL then it would look über-weird if they started texting or posting in pan-loafy style.

Hud oan the noo, if it's guid enough fur yon grufallo, it's guid enough fur me.

It's the same as Scottish men being called Tam and Wullie (and spelling it like that) instead of Tom and Willy.

It's just people typing as they talk, I don't get it myself but come across it ALL the time.
For example, local dialect where I live dictates that 'can't' is pronounced 'kent' and so a lot of my friends actually type 'kent' instead of 'can't'! Other abominations are 'music' pronounced 'moooosic', 'Tuesday' pronounced 'Toosdee'... You get the picture - makes me

Euphemia, it's taken me back to the days of the Sunday Post and reading ... was it ... The Broons? I recall Oor Wullie, too.

It's Scots dialect. Look on iPlayer for a programme called blethering Scots. Very interesting.

Talking like that is fine(ish) but actually writing like that . . . . . I'm afraid I judge and that judgement is 'they must be thick'.

Ah yes, The Broons - poor Daphne was always unfavourably compared to Maggie and The Bairn was the apple of everyone's 'een.

Ach I ken - ah'm black-affronted fur ye.

When I was a wee girl, I wanted to be Oor Wullie and only wore dungarees for ages (and sat on a bucket) till my ma went mad and burnt them all :(

Burns must have been pretty thick then squoosh ...

Oh 'babez' is Scots is it?

YANBU. It's irritating. I have to read it out loud to understand it.

Thick?

It's dialect, Scots, you can buy dictionaries for it if you're struggling to keep up. I speak Queens English when needed, which is most of the time but I will speak in my own way when I wish. It's far from thick.

Glad it's not just me that remembers the Broons Salmo

It's dialect in a written form. Meh.

Babez is not Scots. That's obvious, no one claimed it was, unless you are indeed acting thick?