I just don’t get it

I was checking my facebook today and was quite surprised at how many people abreviate their words as if they were texting. It's drives me nuts! I just don't get it. Sorry if I am a bit of a grammer & spelling Nazi

I was reading one post a friend wrote and thought I'd share just a few of the words from that sentance.

Tht = That
Famz = Family
M8 = Mate
Hw = How
Neva = Never
Gna = Going to
Ya = You
Sn = Seen
Algud = All good

Arrrrggg it hurts my eyes! lol. I don't mind the odd abreviation but trying to read an entire sentance of this madness hurts my head! Do you do it? and if you do does it actually making typing faster? It seems like it would take up a lot of time trying to think of all these abreviations lol

Edited by lisa85

ARGHHH! I don't mind the odd LOL or LMAO but deliberately misspelling words and writing in "txt speak" on facebook or in emails really grinds my gears! I thought maybe I was just getting old, but I have friends who are older than me - one is a school teacher - who do this all the time. Drives me up the wall.

I hate it. I've never understood why people write, 'wat' for 'what' it doesn't sound like that at all.

I really hate when people write cum instead of come. Just looks wrong on so many levels

lisa85 wrote: I really hate when people write cum instead of come. Just looks wrong on so many levels

 

Exactly... my mum does it and I feel disgusting everytime I see it!  I think "eww mum!!!!" but then she wouldn't even realise it!!  I never spell 'come' that way because of it!

 

And I agree with your OP, so sick of seeing text speak everywhere I look!  I honestly think of that person as being dumb when I read their post/email.  There is no need for it.  Even advertising is getting in on it... like the speed adverts which I think only makes it dangerous when you're driving along trying to work out what the damn sign is trying to say, just makes it distracting.

If people are lazy they should just use predictive text...

lisa85 wrote: I really hate when people write cum instead of come. Just looks wrong on so many levels

I sent my dad a text once saying that Never made that mistake again lol

Im not really bad but do use the odd shortened word. Im always typing algd

I hate it too. A good friend of mine does it and even does it in emails. "Wat u doin?" really gets on my nerves.   And it takes me forever to work out what they're saying half the time too.

On another annoying note:

Why don't elevators just have 'Open' and 'Close' buttons instead of the arrows? It takes me ages to work out which way is which and I always (mostly, never usually on purpose but sometimes is) shut the door on someone while going "Oh... oh... sorry"

I'm another "h8er" of the text speak when you have a full QWERTY keyboard at your disposal.

What makes me even madder is when words are misspelled to look 'cool' but have the same amount of letters.
eg: "kewl, wut tyme shud we meet yew?"

I'm a full grammar/punctuation texter, too. I'll sometimes shorten it a little when I know the recipient's phone can't handle a text longer than 160 characters. But in a way that doesn't make their brain melt (or make them think I was a complete moron) when trying to read it.
"Hi. How R U? What time R we goin to meet? I thought we could meet @ 3pm?"
Instead of "Hi. Howzit goin? Wut tyme we gon meet? I thort we cud meet at 3pm?"

oh and typos are completely ok