Am I alone in this?

[Pogle]

Better to keep an eye on them here than have them loose on the streets scaring old ladies with bits of C++.

[Trev16v]

I try to write in perfect English in text messages, through Messenger, and especially on forums. Lack of capitalisation and misuse of punctuation infuriates the hell out of me.

I can partially understand the desire to abbreviate words in text messages, especially when you're trying to confine a message within 160 characters (or whatever the size limit is) in order to avoid the text being split into multiple messages. Personally, I'd prefer to send a longer text message than to sound like an illiterate.

A few weeks ago I happened to converse with my old secondary school English teacher via Facebook. I wrote to him in normal English just as I am typing this right now; he wrote back to me entirely in text speak. I thought he was just taking the piѕѕ at first, but he wasn't. Fortunately he quit teaching long ago.

[bogeyman]

There are no angry people on here. We're IT geeks who are mild and harmless.

Forum postings are merely gorilla-chest posturings, so the meek and the mild can feel important.

If it soothes the brow of some, then I say, why the heck not ?

Better to keep an eye on them here than have them loose on the streets scaring old ladies with bits of C++.

Gorilla-chest posturings?

Come and say that to my face you evil purple rabbity looking avatared thing!

[BrilloPad]

Gorilla-chest posturings?

Come and say that to my face you evil purple rabbity looking avatared thing!

I take it the gun in your avatar is loaded?

[bogeyman]

I try to write in perfect English in text messages, through Messenger, and especially on forums. Lack of capitalisation and misuse of punctuation infuriates the hell out of me.

I can partially understand the desire to abbreviate words in text messages, especially when you're trying to confine a message within 160 characters (or whatever the size limit is) in order to avoid the text being split into multiple messages. Personally, I'd prefer to send a longer text message than to sound like an illiterate.

A few weeks ago I happened to converse with my old secondary school English teacher via Facebook. I wrote to him in normal English just as I am typing this right now; he wrote back to me entirely in text speak. I thought he was just taking the piѕѕ at first, but he wasn't. Fortunately he quit teaching long ago.

God, talk about a hostage to fortune.

[bogeyman]

I take it the gun in your avatar is loaded?

Yes it is. Hollow points with mercury! Best for shooting pumpkins I find.

[Board Game Geek]

Come and say that to my face you evil purple rabbity looking avatared thing!

Oi ! Don't diss The Rabbit !

SFW but may make your ears bleed :-)

[Mustang]

predictive T9 for me, but correctly written in full

WHS

[bogeyman]

easy tiger!
since you ask, they're my initials and my old sport number

i just thought it was a funny parallel being drawn between people calling typing in a form of short hand, moron's, when they themselves post on an internet forum with made up username's

I feel like i've woken an angry bear from hibernation!

<fatherjack>What?</fatherjack>

Your 'old sport number'?

Bit of an old sport are you then?

[Ardesco]

Oi ! Don't diss The Rabbit !

SFW but may make your ears bleed :-)

Not heard of them before, thank you very much