T3H Tex0Rz!

[ilikekicks]

Just looking at the topic title makes people say ' what the hell kind of typo is that? '. Its not, in fact, a typo. I was visiting another message forum ( automotive type ) and some of the younger crowd there have something that I am going to refer to as ' their own language '. They can understand each other ( somewhat ) but they just cannot carry a coherent conversation with anyone else. ' wat ', as in ' what '. 'plz ' is ' please '. Theres so many different ways they spell things that a literature/english professor would have convulsions TRYING to grade a paper written in such a way. One of them asked me a question and I needed to have them ask 4 times before they actually took the time to spell things out properly. They then had the audacity to ask me ' Whats your problem man? '. When I informed him that in order to be accurate in answering his question or to give the solution to ' HIS PROBLEM ', I would like to know exactly what I am up against. Apparently this offended him to some extreme means. What I question would be : Are people just too lazy to look at what they write or try to converse? Do they not have a spell checker for their browsers? Maybe they just dont care and feel they will type as they please and everyone owes them a response? Im finding it more and more frequent where I come across messages posted on the few sites that I visit where I look at whats there and say to myself ' What do they mean? '. ' Have they ever heard of a period? '. ' What the hell is that word supposed to be? ' There are some typos we see all the time. ' teh ' instead of ' the '. People spell ' wierd ' using the I before E rule when in reality its an acceptation and is ' weird ' in its ways to begin with Im no grammar major nor some english professor, but for the mans sake, how do these individuals survive in society? I would love to see a job application submitted by one of them! Anyone else noticing these trends? -Ilk

[LarWhe78]

Yes, thankfully most of the foums I visit insist on some grammatic effort, both from moderators and users. To be honest, I don't even make an effort to read something where someone is typing garbage, either text speak or long paragraphs with no punctuation. Life's too short.

[Heelster]

Yep - - see it all the time.

[Rockpup]

elite speak, or 1337 (leet) speak came from the hacker world. There are many variations that have sprung up since. Quite a bit of the plz shortening has also come from the use of twitter, where you might have to crop out a few letters to finish your point. Teh is just a bit of an inside joke, once again, from the computer generation. "I am teh dumb" when you do something stupid.

[wetwillie]

I only use these types of abreviations when texting on my phone.

[Dr. Shoe]

I have noticed a lot of people using "text speak" in verbal anguage. Some of the younger girls at work say "lol", not l.o.l. but lol. I have often heard OMG instead of Oh My God too.

[CrazyIcecap]

It's not limited to english-speaking boards, we have the same "problem" here in germany - even worse, it is sometimes a really weird mixture of german slang, bad grammar, wrong typed english words and the so called "Denglisch" (a sometimes really annoying mixture of english substantives and/or adjectives with german syntax).

Sometimes it is a really strange experience when i write something in an english board with a better grammar than the native speakers....

[Guest]

I translate once (if possible) and ignore all further correspondence. Spelling errors- I can be very guilty (without spell check UK English). Just don't wake Megan up! Al