“County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?” - Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Spelling. It seems to be a lost art these days. Everyone is so busy texting and wanting to not get carpel thumb that they shorten all the words.
U NO WAT I MEAN? or KWIM?
It's called SMS language or Textese (also known as txtese, chatspeak, txt, txtspk, txtk, txto, texting language, or txt talk).
For words which have no common abbreviation, users most commonly remove the vowels from a word, and the reader is required to interpret a string of consonants by re-adding the vowels (e.g. dictionary becomes dctnry and keyboard becomes kybrd).
The reader must interpret the abbreviated words depending on the context in which it is used, as there are many examples of words or phrases which use the same abbreviations (e.g., lol could mean laugh out loud or lots of love, and cryn could mean crayon or cryin(g)).
Context is key when interpreting textese, and it is precisely this shortfall which critics cite as a reason not to use it
That is NOT how we write emails, online profiles, actual correspondence, etc. The sad thing is that I know teachers who get assignments back from kids written just like that. And what is their excuse? No kid actually writes with pen and paper (don't get me started on penmanship) they use their computer. And every computer I have ever seen has something called "spell check" which also, conveniently corrects grammar as well.
So by the fact that they write on the computer, and have the option of using spell check there should be no misspellings ever really. Unless of course they are using that new made up text language.
Now why don't they use spell check? It's one click for crying out loud. But then again they are probably exhausted from ROTF, LOL and LMAO
This is what we have to look forward to in the future. Letters from the Social Security Office, or the doctor's office telling us about R NEW SRVC Y NOT TRY IT
2DAY. 4 MOR INF TXT US. K?
Totals for today
Calories 1553
Fat 75
Carbs 207
Protein 63
8oz glasses of water 2
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