Ok first off I want to prefice this rant with the fact that I know a lot of this will reflect on some people on this board as well as MANY OTHER boards. But its been something that has been buggin the tar out of me!

WHY IN THE HELL CAN'T PEOPLE SPELL OUT WORDS?!?!??!?!?!?!

Yes I put that in all caps to make a point! You see many people who type "text speak" instead of typing the freaking ENGLISH language! Have we as a society just gotten to darn lazy to spell out words like, to (2 as many people would spell it) or anyone (any1) and bazillion more words that this new generation of language challenged people are using in their every day verbage. I often wonder if these language challenged people use the same language on their school papers or on their job applications?

Whatever happened to the day when people would be proud to say they can speak and write the English language? Have we regressed so far now that it is to late for this new generation of "text speak" people to grow the hell up and start using REAL English?

I am not talking about people who mistakenly use the wrong word, like there for their and vice versa, but that get my goat though. But that is understandable. And just general mispelling of words happens all the time. I am sure I will be re-editing this rant a couple times finding words and sentences I messed up.

But these people who talk in "text speak" just drive me bonkers.

I am sure now there will be a ton of posts of people talking "text speak" just to annoy me, but its all good This is America and we have the right to ***** and moan and point out people's mistakes. I am sure I will only expect the same from others to do the same to me

Thanks for listening

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You win.


I agree.


End of thread.

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DUDE! Seriously! I think you and I would get along famously in person. You have no idea how much this annoys the crap out of me. No particular offense to anyone, but I could just shoot some of them. Is it REALLY that hard to spell a word out?

And I\'ll add to your rant. I loathe people on instant messenger that send a sentence in two word chunks or like that.

12:00:01 Them: Hey
12:00:02 Them: Whats up
12:00:03 Them: How you doin
12:00:04 Them: Im doing okay
12:00:05 Them: been kinda busy
12:00:06 Them: work is crazy
12:00:07 Them: Im tired
12:00:08 Them: I need a vacation
12:00:09: Them: Are you there
12:00:10 Them: Hello!
12:00:11: Me: Oh, I can talk now? I thought maybe you had an intermittent connection with all the IM\'s.

I mean, is there something wrong with speaking in full sentences and using punctuation and maybe check spelling once in a while? Some times my friggin\' PC sounds like some fire drill. I get people sending IM\'s like that above. I have to have the sound on because I use IM at work to communicate with other technicians and have to know when they send me a message.

Ive come close to blocking a few before.

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good thing this is about textspeak and not spelling because you would have failed sir.

on that note. i agree.
@syntheticshield
i'm horrible for that in im's, i have a real problem with hitting enter way to quickly then realising i have something else to type... i'm not as bad as the example you showed, but i will split up sentences pretty bad and have multiple lines where one single line would have sufficed. heh. it is more of a continuation of the thought i had, but it ends up looking like a giant mess of lines...
as far as regular old everyday spelling on the internet, i know i am not perfect with my spelling and usually i end up screwing a couple things up once i go past a paragraph or two, but that is just me not really looking what i'm typing when i type it, i have a tendency to drift away from the window i'm typing on and just start staring out the window or something so i don't notice most of my mistakes.

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LOL Morkuma! As I said in my initial posting here, my spelling sucks at times too, no doubt! Thanks for pointing that out My rant was more of the fact how lazy people are. I mean seriously..........How hard is it to type to instead of 2? Or anyone instead of any1. I know I get funny on some of my verbage. IE Werd instead of word, but that is just speech in l33t speak cause it's fun to mix somethings up to have a good laugh.

I don't mind a little spelling failure. I can deal with that, its just the rest I have a hard time digesting

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i text a lot, so on my cell i text like a fool. but on the forums i will write everything out

Syn you most likely 99.5% correct on that one

I know when I use to play Ultima Online way back in the day, there use to be some players that would literally speak one word on each line of text they would type ingame. For example.

Them: Hi
Them: Do
Them: you
Them: want
Them: to
Them: form
Them: a
Them: group
Them: to
Them: kill
Them: a
Them: pker (PK stands for Player Killer (I played on a PvP server back then)
Me: Yes sure we can form a group to find the PKer. He killed my miner the other day.
Them: Ok
Them: meet
Them: me............

Well you get the idea. I mean I had to literally scroll text chat to read one bloody sentence. And there were many who did that back then. But that is more so poor sentence skills than anything. But it follows long in the breath of my rant

I mean when you read a sentence like this........

"Does any1 no how 2 fix this"

Sure you can understand it, but why can't they just type the whole sentence out in plain English? You see a lot of text speak transferring from the cellphone, which I can understand, to forum boards all over the place. And most of them are NOT replying from their PDA or cellphone most likely when they post stuff like that.

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Ding Ding Ding we have a WINNER!!!!

Thank you QwikGT! I can certainly understand that methodology. I too, like you, do the same thing. I guess some folks just don't understand that simple concept

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I agree with you guys, I hate it when people are typing like that. Even if I wanted to I think it would take me longer to type any1 then anyone because it's easier to type "one" then trying to find the "1" key. I text a lot and even then I try not to use that kind of stuff. On IM I usually don't use any capitalization or grammar marks but you can still read it.

hell, you guys would be impressed with my texting skills then... i type everything out. i text like a motherf*cker but i never use any abbreviations exept the usual lol brb, etc

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