I get straight A's in English and I do it. It's just easier to type How r u? than How are you? I'm positive people will be using good grammer in thirty years.

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"-Allie-" wrote:

It's sheer laziness. Nothing terrifying about it.

waT r U tolkking ab0utt????? itz fiiinee #qUrl

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"Alekhine" wrote:

"-Allie-" wrote:

It's sheer laziness. Nothing terrifying about it.

waT r U tolkking ab0utt????? itz fiiinee #qUrl

I lost my Cap'n Crunch decoder ring.

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im scared that people hate me. im scared that people dont love me. ik im hated. how will it end when wil it end?. to make it better no one cares/notices 

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The thing you have to understand about the English language, and language in general, is that it is a constantly evolving organism. There was a time when English in fact /had no rules/ to speak of. It was only around the time of Shakespeare (who single handedly created about half the modern English language) that a new batch of vocabulary words, the words you no doubt are just learning, came about. English before the Battle of Hastings was basically just a dialect of German, then when the Normans finally came along, they gave us all the Latin-derivative words we use today. English is a thief, it takes what it wants from other languages all the time, and it even makes up words. So no, don't worry about a thing. We may talk like this on the internet, but as long as we can understand each other, which, remember, is the very purpose of language, I don't see a problem, other than it's ugly and makes people sound dumb online. I personally only speak like that for the comedic effect (see: my profile), but I don't really hate those who do it in earnest. I agree that some people go overboard with the slang, but every generation has its slang, it's nothing to worry about. 

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Ah, was this a fear general? Hehe, and here I am ranting about language. Didn't read the other posts...

I'll see myself out, lol. 

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Almost all of the people I know who used to use text talk frequently when we were young have grown out of it now.

I remember when I was ten, I Typed Like This, Capitalizing Every First Letter.
Eventually I came to the realization that it does not take much longer to type the whole sentence properly. I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that I'm faster than most people I know (I don't remember how fast I type.)

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This isn't really a big deal. As long as you can read it, everything should be fine.

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Well, Perhaps if people cared less about how people type and more about actually important things, People would actually have a decent IQ. But you know, what ever.

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Everyone uses "text-speak" sometimes in life. I use it when I'm texting my mom, or if I'm posting something irrelevant on the internet. ^-^ Besides, there's hope for everyone who isn't grammatically correct. ^-^

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