Transcript:
Jason: UR 2 kewl, dood.
Paige: What are you doing?
Jason: Chatting with Marcus.
Paige: Sheesh, Jason. Learn to write properly. I mean, look at that! It'sembarassing!
Jason: The "U" should be capitalized?
Paige: Duh! It starts the sentence!
Arbitrary about 11 years ago
“Because poor literacy is KEWL!”
Wren Fahel about 11 years ago
My 11-year-old daughter is a wiz at “text talk”, but her writing papers in school are used as a template for what the teachers ARE looking for. There’s nothing wrong with using short code for texts, as long as that’s all it’s used for.
monkeyhead about 11 years ago
The really sad part is how many short codes are now in the dictionary therefore allowed in papers.
Kip W about 11 years ago
When you’re typing with your thumbs and you’re up against a character limit, the abbreviations make sense. I still reserve the right to look askance at their use in regular conversation or term papers, though.
When I was in the chorus of “Carousel,” the director told us to broaden our ad lib exclamations (too much “Woo!”). So I said “LOL!”
Only in rehearsal, and only once. I add this so that strangers on a comics comment board won’t think too badly of me.
emjaycee about 11 years ago
And eventually pictographs on the cave walls.
josh_bisbee about 11 years ago
I use full words, sentences, and proper capitalization when I text (which is not often).
Boots at the Boar Premium Member about 11 years ago
L33t cred.
Doctor11 about 11 years ago
This is giving me a headache.
rgcviper about 11 years ago
As I always say, “Me know how write good”.
Of course, I, too, use all traditional spellings and punctuation when I text.