so when i went into the webbie to see who got the boot this week (results werent updated), i stumbled upon the message boards. now i can understand there being a need for "web-speak" as it were. after all, sometimes it doesnt make sense to type in Queen's English when the medium is obviously colloquial (sp?) in fact, im rather fond of the abbreviations myself, with notable examples being gtg, lmk, brb just to name a few. but i, being an avid net user myself, fail to see why people who post on the message boards have to type as if they were on a mission to mangle the english language. allow me to list a few examples (N.B. these are not the actual comments, just what's been permanently seared into my eyes during those fateful few seconds of exposure to such horrible language)
-duN w0rRy! Jia y0uZ! (am i to take it that we're supposed to emphasize the letters in upper case?)
-dunz gib upzz! okaeeezzz? (if i didnt know better, i wouldnt even have thought this was english)
-we wil alwaezz supp0rt you de! (getting real sick of all those z's, is someone sleepy?)
and probably more if i tried to recollect. alternatively i could go back and copy/paste some actual examples. but that would mean exposins my eyes to more garbage. heavens no!
or should i say "cannotzz de! okaeez?"
extracted from d A r y L ' s mind at 11:45 PM
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