A variation on txtspk. Am I the only one who is irritated by....

[NomDePlume]

... "thou" as an abbreviation of "though" ?

I've noticed a lot of people on here use it. I always read it as "thou" in the Shakesperian sense. It really bugs me.

Don't even get me started on 'discusting'.

never noticed 'thou' before - does tho' bother you ? I loathe any text speak,even in texts and spend ages laboriously spelling out everything...

lol at the STD clinic
dnt 4get not 2 hve sx wiv a sknky whre
u mite git da clp

Lol at HC's txtspk.

'Thou' bothers me no end too - I keep having to re-read the sentence, and 'translate' it in my head.

I'd read it as the proper word 'thou' as well. Growing up in Yorkshire people say 'tha' as in 'tha's reet, lass?' = 'are you all right'. Which is proper dialect and fine and lovely. Textspeak is NOT.

I do put def

Definitely is a word Ialways struggle to spell, I have a mental block - definately? definitely? Like biscuit - I always start buiscit

I can cope with 'def', and I could cope with 'tho', but because 'thou' to me is a different word, it just confuses me.

I can't spell definitely (?) either. So its always def. Thou is holy.

yes, agree I can cope with tho but not thou

PMSL at "dnt 4get not 2 hve sx wiv a sknky whre
u mite git da clp"

I might ring my client up and get them to change their copy.

Much better than "Dnt 4get ur cndms"

What irritates me is way in which 'er' word endings are now changed into 'a'.

My friend sent a text to me the other day and it said:
'Wot tym ru goin wk?'

I sent her one back: 'What?' (waste of a text, I know but I really struggled to translate this particular gem).

She sends another: 'I sed wot tym ru goin 2 work?'

Turns out she wanted to know what time I was leaving for work. I told her I wouldn't reply to messages like that anymore, does my head in, all the translating you have to do.

We should start a campaign for proper texts. With capital letters. And punctuation. I always use them - but the downside is it takes me half an hour to send a text.