Hey all-

Since we're lounging here, hopefully with the help of a couple of adult beverages, I thought I'd bring up a topic for discussion which is driving me crazy while browsing forums, this and other. That topic: THE CORRECT USE OF LANGUAGE!

OK, so I'll admit, I'm a 50 something fuddy-duddy who can barely txtmsg, doesn't IM much, and prefers to speak full concepts in complete, well thought out sentence structures. And that goes double for using the written word.

So when I encounter posts that look something like this:

I nd hlp cuz cuz knt dwnld warez wtf )&!@%)*-..."

it really gets my dander up.

Users, I implore you. If you want my help on a topic, then create your post using something resembling proper English. Or Spanish, I sort of read that OK. Or Italian, as I can ask my son for translation help. Or even Polish, I'll have the cleaning people read it for me. But this shorthand IM/textlish crap is a really good way for you to waste your time posting something which will be misunderstood by most of the intelligent users of this forum.

There...I feel better now. Hw d'u feel?

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
George Orwell -

I have to agree, but I think it's all that textmessageing the cell phone people do. They have their own language, if they spell every word it would take forever to say what they have to say. We are just 50 something fuddy-duddy's.

It's okay. Most of them are on IRC or some other chat mode helping each other.
We're just getting the occasional stray that hasn't found them yet.

Your smiley said it all.

Now let's talk about Netiquette and replying to long-dead threads…