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[BlurYamaneko]

In my whole Internet life, I've never read text with such a bad orthograph :/

You're one lucky, lucky dude.

[Mina-chan]

Er... I'm curious to see something worst. I think it's impossible. Even "me" is mispelled! If you have a link, I'm curious to read it.

All my sympathics if you have ever read something worst :/

[BlurYamaneko]

Nah sorry, I don't take the time out to memorise and link this shit, but in the nine years I've been online I've seen the English language (and I'm sure it happens to other languages too) get violated and bastardised in ways that test (and sometimes break) the laws of the human psyche.

[TheContact]

The IP is UK based, so barring any proxy nonsense, or recent immigration, "coffee taster" is a native speaker of English.

[Kia_Purity]

Crappy grammar and shorthanded is not the way to impress people on forums.

If you want to be a productive member, at least try to make sense or something! ;_;

...though that might be counter productive. XD

*ahems and buries herself in the zohar plushies o_o*

[BlurYamaneko]

Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all, text speak is huge here, I dunno how big it is anywhere else but since the explosion of cellphone 'culture' in the last half-decade in the UK, sending text messages has gotten hugely, hugely popular, especially amongst the youth, and you get millions of kids who now spell in the dreaded, and I quote, "text writtin".

Only, I think that was just general bad spelling, everyone knows it's actually "txt ritn".  See, it's all about using less letters for speed purposes, and because there is (or at least was) a limit on the size of the message you could send - and each one costs money! (or did, having not had a cellphone until a month ago, I have no idea how the providers used to charge, and still don't really, cause I use my phone to do that craziest of things - talk to people).  On the other hand, I might be wrong, 'text speak' might just be a competition to see who can be the most idiotic. Still, the fact remains that I've seen people who can type faster on a cellphone than they can on a keyboard, which to me is pretty insane, but I guess it's what you're used to.

[Kia_Purity]

Poo, when I text message, I use full words! Speediness be damned! I already type fast as it is with my thumbs! (Pager, not cellphone, btw. Nevermind, it's kinda free and I tend to make it short and simple without butchering the words!)

...and my pager has internet on it too. I'm too geeky for my own good.

[BlurYamaneko]

Yeah, I doubt I'd sacrifice intelligibility (never mind dignity) for speed of typing in any medium.  It'd be kinda like writing shorthand then giving it to someone else to decipher, I guess.

[Mina-chan]

The same here. I consider that the person I write to is not a hyerogliph reader, and, it's only matter of respect, I use then full words (I only cut down some usual words, but no "2moR0 1'll by sum g4mes" (apparently, l33t speak is written easier than normal speak with cellphones). It should stay "visually" acceptable and, with the normal tolerance we can have, orthographically and syntaxically correct.


In fact, I don't even remark any typing rate improvement with that dumb orthograph. It uses simply less letters, but letters not usually used, and not well placed to be "chained".

I think that it's a good way to get a carpian tunnel syndrome, nothing else, and certainly not a way to save time. It can only save a few letters when you have to be brief, for example with the old 255 chars (I'm not sure of the number) limitation of the short messages.

[BlurYamaneko]

I think we tend to see the shapes of words after a certain stage in our reading/linguistic development, rather than the individual letters, though I could be wrong on this.  But when someone throws shortened words or words with letters that ain't even there anyway (ie, "mi") it ends up taking considerably longer to comprehend what the fuck is meant to be said in the first place.

[SLDFKnight]

I think we tend to see the shapes of words after a certain stage in our reading/linguistic development, rather than the individual letters, though I could be wrong on this.  But when someone throws shortened words or words with letters that ain't even there anyway (ie, "mi") it ends up taking considerably longer to comprehend what the fuck is meant to be said in the first place.

I heard that too. I've even seen something written with letters in the middle of words changed around in a way that you don't even notice it unless you're reading carefully.

I find it to be particularly funny/sad when people use abrebiations in regular speech. My highschool is full of morons that bleed their "interweb speak" into their normal conversations. I had to explain to this girl today that not only does calling barbecue "B-B-Q" not save any time when you're talking but also makes you sound retarded.  

[The Dead Reprise]

Wow! So this is the type of shit that I’ve missed out on. I’ve really missed the comical entertainment that Lea Monde has provided me with in the past.

-I think I’m going to start worshiping Surtur; He’s the ultimate smartass and always knows what to say in a certain situation (such as this thread) that makes me laugh my ass off.