I have a dream, that someday people
will spell all their words completely, I have a dream that someday some people
will not be discriminated against, because they use full words while texting or
chatting, I have a dream that someday people will know the difference between
"you're" and "your", I REALLY have a dream.. Well 'da wrld
hz chng3d, due 2 kewl pplz~!! xx'.. *sigh!
P.S. If you're one of those people who think gay 'shrtfrms lyk dis' are cool, you really needn't bother reading this post! I'm serious. Else I'm going to hunt you down and kill you! Yes, I'm a Grammar Nazi, a sadist. Probably I'm one of those really illiterate people who don't seem to understand a word of what folks of my own generation speak, or maybe I'm just too stuck up. Either way, that doesn’t give such people (or should I say pplz) a reason to not invest 3 extra minutes in typing the entire word! Instead they invest those 3 minutes in adding extra symbols.
Some real life examples!
Yuh-You (Jeez! For heaven sake! BOTH have 3 letters!)
Lyk-Like
Dnkyuu-Thank you
Knoe-Know (Same number of alphabets, again.)
Saein-Saying (Trust me, it took me 15 minutes too decipher that one!)
Apart from mangling normal English words like a bloody carnivore, people have created such LONG abbreviations. Half the time they look like those random word document names which younger kids made when they are too darn bored to think of something sensible. Something like "fgvijgsjfiogjh sdcjfh". For those of you who are aware of the meaning of these SMS/Chat Abbreviations (WITHOUT the help of Google :P) , I have an immense amount of respect for you. I swear, I do J
