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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!
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.