spkin funy
My company has a lot of rather samey and annoying 20 something 'consultants'. Think "The Apprentice" but theres 350 of them.

I occasionally delve in to their email for a laugh - I'm a sysadmin so its part of the job, but lunchtime reading livens up the day.

Normally, the business emails are fine, lots of spelling and grammar errors but I understand that schools arent what they were but I utterly fail to understand why when they talk amongst themselves on email, they write things like:

"oioi wot du u fink bot dat innit mad innit wot woz she finkin? u out 2nite? uz n dat lot is gunna go Rbns 4 pizzzzup fukkin a."

Thats a cut and paste by the way. The exact email. Between people who are in their late 20's. Its not a one off, I see hundreds of these. I was genuinely shocked to see that a good majority of people actually write like that. It takes me ages to read it as well. And the really fucking stupid part is that it takes longer than normal english most of the time. Who the fuck uses "uz" instead of "us"?

I understand languages evolve, they always have done. Words and spellings and meanings change over time, but do they ever leap into utter inanity within a generation.

People moan about apostrophes being in the wrong place - you're not even close to seeing how bad it really is.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 2 May 2008, 12:50, Reply)