text speak
This makes me a horrible intellectual snob and probably a dreadful person, but I was recently dating someone who sent all their texts and emails in text speak. It grated to such an extent that every time I read 'lol' or 'wat iz dat about lolz' in a written conversation that I was about to blatter him over the head with a keyboard until he constructed a decent sentence. The romance was therefore doomed due to the fact that I'm a fucking pedant.

Edit: and my students type their emails to me in text speak. They don't use capital letters either. They never sign their names - I'm just expected to know who mx3074pt actually is. Worst of all, they use smilies. Fucking smilies. If I'd tried that with any of my lecturers I would have had my head torn off, and rightly so.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 2 Apr 2008, 15:14, Reply)