to think the word is 'Little'

[Arsenic]

Two syllables, hard consonant sound in the middle?

Lully instead of lovely. Feel the urge to throw something when I see or hear this.

I seen a first over the weekend!!
Someone on a Facebook selling site posted 'does anywan know where to get the glitter wine glasses' I thought it surely must be a typo, but a few comments down, after people had linked to pages she had wrote 'thanks everywan'

Really made my teeth itch! It's the same amount of letters- it's no easier to write!

penguito that person's second crime was wanting a glittery wineglass!!

Prolly instead of probably

Drbonnie

Penguito, are you in EG? I saw something very similar.

Ickle is acceptable.... If you are Jamaican.

What about 'ov' instead of 'of'? I really don't understand that one.

There are not enough of these in the world to express my rage at 'gawjus' and 'hansum'.

People are becoming more and more infantile. Both in terms of their speech and behaviour - such as being over emotional and exaggerating things "i woz devastated wen me fingernail snapped".

havent we always tended to do this though?

Eg wellies, for wellington boots, etc
it's just that new colloquialisms grate because they are new, we've not absorbed them into our personal lexicon.
Or they grate because we dont feel any affinity with the socio economic group in which they have arisen

dementedma beat me to it. I loathe prolly.

Let da lil peeps say wotevs dey want, dey av rites init

Nite am of sleepz wiv ma lil man

Yous is geordie/Northumbrian too.

I never type 'lil' but I do pronounce it 'li-il' when speaking lazily, dropping the t.

Speaking is different. That is dialect. Typing it deliberately incorrectly is an affectation.

I know a couple of Scottish people who type in their accents, which often means adding extra letters, eg 'ah dinnae ken'. It just makes it more effort to both write and read, surely?!

DP does it on occasion, only to annoy me though!

Surely typing in dialect is an attempt to make the written word less formal, more like speech less like writing a letter?

In many cases those who communicate prolifically via facebook and texting are also people who don't read books, they have little or no exposure to written communication in which the rules of grammar and spelling are observed.
To these people typing in dialect is just the natural thing to do.

You think so Suzanne?

it's a plausible theory isnt it?

Possibly true of some. I'm not keen on grouping people like that, though.

(The examples - here - that really made me gnash my teeth were of the 'word' being deployed by the otherwise fully literate; it was the juxtaposition, the affectation that grated.)

points taken Arsenic

(Perhaps something to do with wanting not to seem too literate, it's 'uncool'...maybe?)

DH came home seething yesterday. He sent an email at work and his colleage forwarded it on but corrected an etc to ect. He wants to reply all and point out he didn't type ect. He is resisting. Just.

I need the I was sat/I was stood buiness to cease.

Perhaps something to do with wanting not to seem too literate, it's 'uncool'...maybe?

And how awful is that?

I need the I was sat/I was stood buiness to cease.

Heh. Half instructin, half appeal. I like it

It's awful I agree but nothing new

True.

The two people I know who often type in dialect are educated to degree level and hold professional jobs which include formal report writing. That makes me think it's more likely that they want to appear less literate than they really are, which is quite sad, I agree.