I don't consider myself a grammar nazi, but this stuff makes me grind my teeth. If I were a teacher, I would definitely be giving out severe markdowns if not outright failures on research papers and the like where someone tried such usages.
It's so utterly irritating to me because it is completely unnecessary. In-game chat IS NOT a cellphone text message, and this kind of thing is exactly the reason I outright refuse to text: Because so-called "word short forms" are steadily making their way out of text messages and into other media.
I only saw part of Idiocracy, and what I did see of it made me sick to my stomach. I might have seemed funnier if it didn't feel so close to the truth.
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Date: 2009-09-21 07:33 pm (UTC)It's so utterly irritating to me because it is completely unnecessary. In-game chat IS NOT a cellphone text message, and this kind of thing is exactly the reason I outright refuse to text: Because so-called "word short forms" are steadily making their way out of text messages and into other media.
I only saw part of Idiocracy, and what I did see of it made me sick to my stomach. I might have seemed funnier if it didn't feel so close to the truth.