Can someone please tell me when we decided the English language wasn’t good enough?
It has got to the stage where I am now receiving emails from work colleagues, so-called business professionals, containing what I believe is now known as “text speak”.
Slang I can just about live with, even the odd time-saving acronym is unlikely to raise a scowl, but sending me an email containing a phrase such as “spk l8r” will leave me reaching for the nearest thesaurus with which to beat you.
Would it really have made your day that much worse to spend the extra 3 nanoseconds it would have taken to include the vowels in those words? Is your time really that valuable? Really? Are you sure?
This was posted as an example of text speak on the BBC webiste
YO LTNC, HRU?
WL I JST GT BK FRM CRTE.
ND WZ XLNT. GT UP2 SO MCH FRU OT D 2WKS. 1ST WK WNT FST.
I RLXD FRU OT D 2WS. DA WEVR WZ LUVLY AD NA RAIN!
WNT 2D BEACH KPL TMZ ND SPNT MST OFD HOL SUNIN MSLF. ONLI WNT RD NM LOL :$ GT BK 2DYS GO ND AV ALRDY BN SHPIN ND GN 2 WRK ND WNT 2GR8 PRT WZ SAL. <0-). IZA OGNIZIN BBQ 4 AL MI M8S NXTWKD ND WIL B OFF NOTHR HOL IN 2WKS WCH WIL B GD FC, HP 2CUSN.
ATB, BFN XOXOXOXOX
Are you fecking kidding me?! When i was at school kids that wrote like that found themselves in the special class with the window licker and the kid who spent lessons trying to put his finger up his own arse.
It’s bad enough receiving a text message with abbreviations like the above, but when it drifts into mainstream communications, then the world is going mad. I’ve had enough. Each time I receive a message like this from now on I shall no longer use vowels when communicating with the offender, whether written or verbal. I suggest you do the same.
W’ll s hw thy lk tht….
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