Do you get annoyed by text speak?

I hate it, not just professionally, but even just between friends! How much more effort does it take to type "you" instead of "u?" I know it may not be that big of a deak, but it makes me feel like the person is lazy and doesn't care about how intelligent others percieve them to be. I'm sure this isn't the case, but that's how it makes me feel.

I think there is nothing wrong with starting a new discussion on an old topic. There are always new people starting at mylot and many don't search for particular topics that they want to post about but rather just look at the current listings for what they find interesting. I think it's more of an annoyance that those who have previously debated the subject come in to get another post added to their count ($) by retelling the same thing again and attack the starting poster.

I don't copy anybody's posts. Besides, I don't have a post count high enough to copy-paste. I'm sorry that I'm new at myLot, and was unaware that it had been debated previously.

I don't have a problem spending the time to work my way through a post that has been posted by someone who's first language is not English. I take the time to work through those, as it's clear they spent the time to post. And truthfully, they probably put in a lot more effort than the rest of us, trying to ensure they wrote in the best English they could. I think in those situations I should actually reward them for putting in all that effort, by taking the effort to read through their post. Those types of posts I also rate positively for their efforts, also. It's the shortcuts that people take when they chop out all the vowels and/or replace words or letters with numbers that irks me. If they have something I think is worth working my way through, but am not completely sure of their meaning, I will ask them to repeat without the abbreviations. Thanks for your suggestion!

It's great to see you recognise this sort of change, and are doing something about it! I admit I sometimes use text talk when I'm texting someone. I usually type it out in full, and then if it's too long, I'll chop out some bits to make it fit.

lol. I love the way you put it. I totally agree it's not worth the headache, trying to work out what all the abbreviations mean. And I'm happy I'm not the only one. I thought I was just being too anal about details!

Oh boy, I'm sure she picks up a lot of abbreviations! It must frustrater her no end. It makes an other wise good paper into a bit of a joke if there are errors everywhere! Does your mom take it into consideration when assigning marks?

I agree. Sometimes it does make it very very hard to understand what people are saying in the first place, if it's too abbreviated. And I do find that it's very difficult to justify spending time on that sort of post to work out what their point is. Obviously, if it's someone who's first language isn't English, I will put more time into reading their post. Afterall, they put in the effort to responding in the first place. But text talk, bah. I can't be bothered! Afterall, minimal effort from them makes it hard for me to justify any effort on my part, also. Tough, but there are plenty of people on myLot. I'll leave that sort of post for someone else to answer.

Re copy and pasting, you and me both! We have a bit more work to do before we have that ability! One of my pet hates is spelling! I totally agree that text talk has reduced the masses to forget that spelling words correctly is important! The other day I saw someone post regarding not wanting to have any contact with someone after receiving a "massage". Of course, they were referring to a text MESSAGE, rather than a massage. The meaning was entirely confused by a simple spelling error. Yet the mistake was present each time they tried to write "message". Neither grammar checks, or spell checks would have picked up the error. Bring back Websters, and people who will use it!

Absolutely. I have no problems with text talk amongst friends. I just don't understand why I see it in professional documents, even if it is between friends! Professional letters and documents are read by more than just your friend, and it projects your image with it. I think the problem with text talk is also that some schools are now accepting these abbreviations in their submissions. This is not teaching children that they should learn to spell and type grammatically correct.