Whilst travelling home in the taxi last night, the blonde twins from Ikea were sitting in the back texting a guy called Dan (the Girl Twin decided that she that she liked him but was too scared to take his number so the boy twin got the number and started the conversation) the texts were coming thick and fast and the Dan fellow texted "It was lovely to meet you too" and both twins exclaimed as one "HE USED THE RIGHT TOO". It made me think how sad it is that something like that makes us so excited, granted we were all drunk but with the state of the world, someone who can use correct spelling of a word is something to be celebrated
I am not sure if its just me but if I see someone writing lyk dis (sorry I would love to provide you with more examples but my brain physically can not figure out how to do it) I instantly turn off and lose some respect for them. I know this is possibly a very terrible judgemental thing to do but COME ON!!! you would think that their parents didn't pay for their education for them to forget it the minute they walked off the school grounds. Plus its pretty hard to read and understand and I can imagine it takes some thought to make yourself look like a tool who is incapable of spelling even the simplest of words.
For a few years now I have been a moderator on a car forum and we get a lot of young kids that pop up and type in leet SMS talk (or what ever it is that you would like to call it) and I feel the need to hit them with a big stick, I did ask once why they did it and they told me that it was quicker and easier, and this thought struck me as odd. Maybe I have been typing for a lot longer than they have but for me to type words incorrectly I have to force my fingers to forget what they already know. It is also comical that when they do it sometimes the "new" spelling of the word has the same amount of characters as the original word, so really how is it quicker if it is the same amount of key strokes?
And don't even get me started on texting!! I can POSSIBLY understand in the days when a message had a limit of a 124 characters (or what ever the number was) and you couldn't go over the character limit and unlimited caps didn't actually exist, but now days there really is no excuse. You can type that quick and I am sure the person you are texting will appreciate the extra two seconds it takes to get a response if it means they can read your text without dumbing themselves down to your level (well unless they are already at your level, then maybe you should try and be the bigger person because two wrongs don't make a right)
I can understand that some people have difficulty with spelling, I know all about this because as a child I was terrible at spelling, I literally had to write "bed" on everything because I couldn't get my b's and d's around the correct way but I stuck with it, I started to read a lot and over time I got better and now I am actually a pretty good speller and writer (I still cant figure out the difference between brought and bought though), but willing butchering of the English language to look cool just isn't cricket (I think thats why they do it anyway)
It could be possible that I am showing my age and should probably go back to my rocking chair and knitting but I beg you, if you write like the title read, PLEASE STOP!! you are not gangsta, you are not cool and I am sure you are making yourself dumber. Wait until you get to my age and you will need all the brain power you can get so dont push it out of you brain by useless spelling mistakes. Clearly if you are reading this you can actually read the English language, so please start to write it as well, I beg you
Luv and Dis n Dat (Love and this and that)
Miss K
P.S Yeah I am a hater and I am fine with that, but I actually value our English Language and I am too lazy to try and learn a "new" one to be able to understand the youth of today, my guess is they don't really have anything important to say anyway
For a few years now I have been a moderator on a car forum and we get a lot of young kids that pop up and type in leet SMS talk (or what ever it is that you would like to call it) and I feel the need to hit them with a big stick, I did ask once why they did it and they told me that it was quicker and easier, and this thought struck me as odd. Maybe I have been typing for a lot longer than they have but for me to type words incorrectly I have to force my fingers to forget what they already know. It is also comical that when they do it sometimes the "new" spelling of the word has the same amount of characters as the original word, so really how is it quicker if it is the same amount of key strokes?
And don't even get me started on texting!! I can POSSIBLY understand in the days when a message had a limit of a 124 characters (or what ever the number was) and you couldn't go over the character limit and unlimited caps didn't actually exist, but now days there really is no excuse. You can type that quick and I am sure the person you are texting will appreciate the extra two seconds it takes to get a response if it means they can read your text without dumbing themselves down to your level (well unless they are already at your level, then maybe you should try and be the bigger person because two wrongs don't make a right)
I can understand that some people have difficulty with spelling, I know all about this because as a child I was terrible at spelling, I literally had to write "bed" on everything because I couldn't get my b's and d's around the correct way but I stuck with it, I started to read a lot and over time I got better and now I am actually a pretty good speller and writer (I still cant figure out the difference between brought and bought though), but willing butchering of the English language to look cool just isn't cricket (I think thats why they do it anyway)
If this was the eye test, I would well and truly fail
It could be possible that I am showing my age and should probably go back to my rocking chair and knitting but I beg you, if you write like the title read, PLEASE STOP!! you are not gangsta, you are not cool and I am sure you are making yourself dumber. Wait until you get to my age and you will need all the brain power you can get so dont push it out of you brain by useless spelling mistakes. Clearly if you are reading this you can actually read the English language, so please start to write it as well, I beg you
Luv and Dis n Dat (Love and this and that)
Miss K
P.S Yeah I am a hater and I am fine with that, but I actually value our English Language and I am too lazy to try and learn a "new" one to be able to understand the youth of today, my guess is they don't really have anything important to say anyway
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