to think that the new fangled use of the @ symbol when addressing a poster is

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

stupid

me no likey

and the first person to @ me will be shot

oh just bold them instead baldy.
right am off to gym to fight flab

#singalona sound of musci

I thought it was only the CUK folks who were doing it!

YANBU.

i hate it and bolding too

And it makes no sense the way I have seen it used.

I've only seen one poster doing it. It wasn't a CUK person though, it was someone on the Catholic thread a week or so back.

wtf? It has nothing to do with CUK!

urgh to bolding too

I know I am old and grumpy but yy tis txtspeak by stealth

To stop all this drivel about textspeak right now - it is nothing to do with textspeak. It's Twitter - I'm sure The Guardian's run an article on "the new fangled interweb" at some point.

well humph they can all twit orf with their @s

[folds arms]

Pure laziness.

it's twitter's fault isn't it?

Its a Twitterism innit.

I've seen a few people do it. Can't remember who though.

Doesn't bother me!

Jeez, you can't do anything on this forum...
Can't use text speak,
can't say Hun,
can't give hugs,
can't comment on size of pregnancy bumps,
can't spell things wrong incase you get shot down in flames! Yah de ya de yadda...

What the bloody hell can we do?

I quite like it ...but then I'm lazy when it comes to typing on here

I do not use txtspk

@ wanderingdogs, I agree totally with your post

whats CUK?