DAM SUP YO DAT [WTF?]

This is going to be a slight rant post.

I am really tired of going onto Habbo, and WoW and having people talk like "Gangsters". We all learn English for reason, as it is the international language of business. I don't say this to insult people that perhaps have a learning disability, such as dyslexia. I understand that because I have a type of dyslexia that refers to mathematics. So I see how hard it can be.

Why kill the English language, with words such as:
• dat
•da
•wut
•w0t

I am just listing a few as examples. I never understood why people talk like that. I used to type in shorthand/shortforms all the time, until i accidentally did that on a term paper. (That wasn't very fun!)

What do you guys think of this type of writing?

It doesn't really bother me as it's online and we can all be a bit lazy when we type. I have a habit of writing u instead of you, I'm perfectly literate it's just because it's easier to shorten words. What really pisses me off is when people write like that on CVs etc, just last week someone handed in a CV at my work with around 50 grammatical errors and spelling mistakes!
Basically, as long as people don't write like that normally I don't really mind, I suppose it can teach bad habits writing like that though.

My ex is from Barnsley, so I have people on my Facebook list from there now. Anyway, I've only recently noticed it and it's began annoying me a fair bit (I know it's not just people from there, but they're the only ones who do it on my list). They just keep spelling words wrong purposely.

The words I've noticed are:

'buaring' for 'boring'
'Neaw' for 'no'

It's shorter and easier just to spell them properly?

dat's so crazy br0 u rly know w0t's up!!

You get use to it over time

Depends who I am around for periods of time. If I spend a long time in chat rooms or on habbo, the way I type will change.

I suppose it can't be helped with some people.

I think most of the time it's down to age. I used to see it a lot on my social networking sites when I was younger, but these days, most people have grown out of it. It dies down over time.

The only time I write like that is when I'm trying to be annoying and stupid on purpose:

"u ded?"
"yh"

dunno why it bothers you so much and why you feel the need to judge some1 for it

Im not saying I judge them at all. Im saying its more or less annoying. o_O

I usually don't mind unless they make the word longer such as yooh instead of you.

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Originally Posted by Samanfa

My ex is from Barnsley, so I have people on my Facebook list from there now. Anyway, I've only recently noticed it and it's began annoying me a fair bit (I know it's not just people from there, but they're the only ones who do it on my list). They just keep spelling words wrong purposely.

The words I've noticed are:

'buaring' for 'boring'
'Neaw' for 'no'

It's shorter and easier just to spell them properly?

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OMG WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT?!?

Yeah this doesn't really bother me too much and I tend to write grammatically, even online. It only really bothers me if it's over the top.

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Originally Posted by !x!dude!x!2

You get use to it over time

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Things like this, however, I will never get used to. Same goes for "could of", brrrrrrrr.

if i'm ever to type using u and crappy grammar it's because i cba or i'm joking lol. it doesn't really bother me much. i think it bothers me more when people put stuff like Ill and Im or were (as in we're) or u w0t m8

but i don't think i really care

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Originally Posted by Ardemax

Same goes for "could of", brrrrrrrr.

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YES. And it's not even a thing they do because they're being lazy. They genuinely think that it is "could of" not "could have". AND when you try to explain it to them they insist that they're right :'(

i think it's beautiful that way i think those words should be accepted in the dictionary

ok wow STUPID in my opinion

I think it's just an age thing, so doesn't bother me to much. Especially for online sites such as Habbo, people will be more likely to use more Internet chat. Nice prescriptivist attitude though.

I take language like slang as a joke really, makes things much more funneh.

I usually shorten words when I'm tired but I don't think it's a huge deal like its Habbo you should be thankful people are speaking some level of understandable English at least given the array of international users