Bad spelling?

The latter point was my case. I mean, the message I read and just about every other I could see in the user's profile was plain "texting language" but even more garbled, that it just made me want to pull my hairs off. The spell checker is obviously useless for him/her since there's not one single correct word there, and as to the people who don't have English as their primary language I can totally understand because I'm on the same boat and even though I have people flattering me that they didn't knew I was Portuguese until saying so, I have my obvious flaws. But this was just inadmissible. Not one single word on that was correct. Although, now looking back at this and many other things, I do wonder why some people bother to participate on English using forums when it's a secondary language for them and they have both a poor grasp on the language and some times a hate for it enough to warrant them to not want to improve themselves. Maybe it's not the case here, but, there's surely some myLotter out there who's just "trying his best" for the money.

Haha. I'm not exactly sure about the part about doing justice for their own conscience, but I can surely see what you mean. Well, it's just that it's tremendously aggravating to see that people just don't seem to care if they are well understood or not, or... I don't know. Maybe they believe that they are getting their message through loud and clear because somehow they can perceive through their half garbled messages, or fully in the case I witnessed here in myLot that almost made me want to pull my hair off.

Like I replied to another post, I could understand somewhat if these were people with poor education or if it was the occasional typo or grammar flaw, but, in this case I'm talking about people who make entire posts with probably not one single word written correct. "Why"s are "y", "college" is "coll", "friends" is "frns" or "frnds". Essentially, "text language", on a place that has no character limit per post whatsoever. What's their objective!? I suppose that with some effort it can be understood, but some things just feel like they can have so many meanings, it's really like trying to decipher a new language at times. Also, it makes difficult to imagine these are entirely uneducated people since they did find their way around the internet, finding a socialization site, register and started posting. They don't seem that dumb, just incredibly lazy. But, thank you for your reply.

You're actually ok... it's easy to understand. I mean, at a glance, I see a "i" that should be a "I", maybe one letter or so off, and your grammar may be a teensy bit off, but you're still easy to read. Other people can't have one single word correct though. It's misspelled word after misspelled word. Kind of like "i wnt to b frnds wit u". That's.. that's just terrible. Thank you for the comment, and keep up the good work. You're surely better at English than apparently a few native speakers.

These are things that entirely escape me... but can't be avoided anymore. People settle in so much with that that half the community thinks it's ok to do that... that's ok to type like some impaired person that really has some serious shortcomings or similar. And things that take even more work like one capital letter, one not, then I -really- can't understand, because they're surely not making themselves an any easier life. Sometimes I think people should take a literacy exam on the computer before being allowed on the Internet, and then have regular checks or something, lol. And, thank you for your comment.

The problem is when it's not just one misspelled word, but all. You don't even have to... recognize the problem, you -know- it's there, throughout the whole message. Unfortunately I can't recall the user name of who posted the garbled message that led me to start this discussion, but I'll be sure to give an update if I stumble on it again so that people can try to perceive any of its messages.

These are probably people using "text language", yes, which is why I think it should be punished and have these people struck with lightning or something. Well, maybe I exaggerate. The reason why people who all those shortenings and don't care for spelling much in the text messages sent over phone does have a reason, since some of those systems seem pretty cumbersome (I hate texting) and characters are limited. But why do people keep doing this in a bloody forum!? They surely have no character limit (or at least a tenth as small). WHY!? Why must they make -my- eyes bleed. And then I'm not sure why they protest if someone complains at their posts. But, anyway, thank you for your post.

The problem here is not when they make a typo by accident. That happens with all of us; I'm incredibly prone to that which is why it's good I keep a dictionary add-on in Firefox. The problem is moreso when the "rule" of the first and last letter in place stop applying, with the letters on the middle aren't just misplaced, but when people plain and simply steal letters altogether from it and mash up the rest. When not only they do this with one word but every, single, one from their whole message! Sure, you can still perceive them, but then it's almost like if rather than english we're all using l33t speak. Thank you for your reply.