To be a pedant about this bit of txt spk?

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When I first learned text speak it was clear that
ur = You are
yr=Your

But UR seems to be used for both now - totally unacceptable

No one uses text speak anymore. just type the word you want.
So much easier.

YANBU. Lazy youth of today, etc.

I get irked by ‘I text her’. It’s clearly ‘I texted her’.

I'm a real stickler for correct grammar and spelling but I've had to accept that language is a living, moving, changing thing. We don't use the common language of Shakespeare anymore, so be it.

I have never heard of that distinction and barely ever seen anyone use yr. So YABU.

U r bn U bc ur premiz = flawd

With smartphones now it actually takes longer to write in text speak half the time!

Also I've never seen anyone use 'yr' or used it myself so ur def BU m8

I spent most of my teen years online in the late 90s early 00s and never saw or used yr in the way you said so YABU

Who even uses text speak now except ironically?

I've never used or never seen anyone use yr before it was always ur no matter whether we meant your or you're because it's text speak and doesn't actually matter.

U r bn U bc ur premiz = flawd

My phone wouldn't let me write that without correcting at least 3 things.

I'm old-school - I write all text messages in proper English. Mostly, so do my teen kids, but with a few more spelling mistakes. And sometimes they just speak the message straight into WhatsApp. So I think you are out of date rather than U or NU.

Never even anyone type yr for your. Always been ur. The youth of today ha ha at the grand old age of 43 I use ur.

I do put u r (you are) sometimes but that's the limit of my text speak. U r is actually quicker than you are.

Never seen yr used for your. Wouldn't it be short for year?

If you are really going to be pedantic then lose the God awful text speak altogether!!

And how the fuck do you learn text speak???

And how the fuck do you learn text speak??
Ahem, I er, bought a little book - in Waterstones :)

Another one who's never seen yr used for your. R u sure u haven't dreamt it OP?

And how the fuck do you learn text speak?

I never used it, but basically, imagine you're paying by the letter to write your message and try to make it understandable with the fewest characters possible. I just paid more for texts on PAYG as a teenager, before everyone got unlimited contracts.

Does anyone use text speak anymore? Very Nokia 3310 in the 90s

@WanderingMind

It was useful back when you paid by the text message, so anyone still on pay as you go might, I suppose. Or if someone were desperate to fit their essay into a single tweet.

Read a post just now on here which used ur for your and it annoyed the fuck out of me as it looks so illiterate. I feel your pain, OP.

Surely no one needs text speak now with smartphones? It was useful with the early texting mobiles where you had to press the numbers to get the letters etc. It seemed to take forever to write properly hence why text speak was used. Now we have a keyboard....

I've never used text speak Sens my friends and family don't either so I'm not sure. If i saw "ur" or "yr" is needed the context if the sentence around it to get it, otherwise I might think it's a typo.

Yr = year

Ur = your or you're, context needed

I've never used txt spk but that was always my experience.