They call themselves Obama aides, and they're like hackers on steroids, treating the web like a game

[schmiss]

Obama staff will say cu l8r 2 IM

Comments

[shanniesaysyo]

i'm 25 (just turned friday) and i use complete sentences/words and proper punctuation in text messages it bugs people so much. i text a lot too, it's just a habit i can't break.

[unspooling]

Me too! (I'll be 26 this year.) The only time I use txtspk is when I'm texting someone in Tagalog/Filipino. But English has to stay and look English, at least IMO. (OH, I use acronyms like IMO OMG WTF all the time though.)

[shanniesaysyo]

i use wtf and lol SOMETIMES. but usually i'm angry and like WHAT THE FUCK!! carries that more then wtf haha

[coenties]

Ever since I had a phone with texting (15), I've done the same.

[wonderpup]

Me too!

I hate, hate, hate my friends who use that slang, "HOW R U", bitch just type it out. Tho... I will admit to using LOL and OMG

[fizzy_pepsi]

in texts, I will do whatever I can to A.) Make it take less time to type, considering I don't have a full keyboard, and B.) Make it as short as possible in the event that the text spills over into a 2nd message.

[shuraiya]

Happy birthday, first of all! Secondly, I'm the same way. I can't not type properly in texts/IMs.

[dagnirovanaliel]

I do that. (I'm 19.) A lot of the shorthand drives me nuts. Friend of mine does it and when I ask her to email me class notes I actually have to go in and edit them because it takes too long for my brain to process "2=too, to, two" and 4="for, four" and u="you" etc.

Occasionally I'll do some shorthand if I need to make it very quick, and I will occasionally use shorthand acronyms and txtspk for dramatic effect, for tone (akin to using emoticons I suppose), and ironically.

(I wrote an entire paper on this for my English class my sophomore year of high school. Everyone else chose topics like euthanasia and abortion and I was like "THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS GOING TO SHIT".)

[fizzy_pepsi]

To be fair, shorthand should be acceptable in class notes as well. You're trying to write things as quickly as possible.

The English language isn't necessarily going to shit - people just don't have the time to write out their class notes in full, proper English or spend 10 minutes on a simple text message.

[ladyanneboleyn]

(I wrote an entire paper on this for my English class my sophomore year of high school. Everyone else chose topics like euthanasia and abortion and I was like "THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS GOING TO SHIT".)

HAHAHA OMG I DID THAT TOO. Twice, actually.

[koalafrog]

lmao I don't necessarily think the English language is going to shit (unless... have you seen England English texting? yikes!) because languages constantly evolve with the times. BUT, I do think we're evolving into scary territory on some fronts, considering people who say "L O L" out loud and what not. Reminds me of Idiocracy's ~future~ language.

[mandy_croyance]

I refuse to use anything other than proper grammar in my IMs. I've embraced a few common abbreviations but I just can't make myself abandon proper English entirely.

[cliched]

Same. Text speak is irritating.

[phonebill]

I use complete sentences proper punctuation in both IMs and texts, haha.

[koalafrog]

27 here, and me, too. I hated it because it took like an hour to have a conversation that would have taken 3 minutes actually speaking. I got rid of texting a couple years ago because it's just annoying, tbh.

[lizey]

Me too, and I'm 21. You want to write faster, you go learn Pitman shorthand.