Thread: Another Language Virus

Originally Posted by Utopian

One of the many (I was recently told the number was 17240--but by the end of the conversation it was 17242) things that annoys me is the utter laziness of people who write with text shorthand.

I have no problem with it in a text message from phone to phone; and I confess that I OCCASIONALLY skip an apostrophe or a capitalization or a period while texting when I am in a rush. However, in a forum such as this, I consider such writing to be utterly disrespectful to the other members of the forum.

leav if u cant rit good


(clarification: I absolutely in no way mean to suggest any criticism of anyone participating in this forum who is writing in their non-native language.)

And the occasional paragraph break goes a long way to being easier on the eyes and separating the ideas...