When a homophobe can't write in plain English...

[tilia_tomentosa]

... his/her message isn't understood.

See what a message appeared on the gay forum that I moderate. I'm pretty certain it's a "hate the sin, love the sinner" sermon against homosexuality, but oh, the spelling of it! One of our forum members did try to "translate" it, but nobody is 100% sure what this person is saying. Not a good way to preach. LOL

Comments

[darkangel_wings]

Ebonics tends to be something a little bit different. A few of the shortened words and/or the spellings thereof might have originated that way, but a lot of it is just chopping out the vowels in order to type words faster, or spelling them phonetically because there's no spellcheck in texting, not so much based around geography or race. A lot of the white kids who use that kind of speech either verbally or in writing don't use it out of the desire to be "tougher" (though some might) but just because they think it's faster/"everyone does it." I can only speak for a relatively small subset of people, though, and certainly don't know everyone, and therefore don't know why any individual might choose to type that way. But I will agree that it's nearly unintelligible, and it drives me nuts to see anything written out that way, lol.

It fascinates me how people who are bilingual (or more) process language. For me, I "hear" English words in my mind as I read or write (or type), but for the scattered bits of German and Japanese I still remember, it's more like how you describe English: I have to picture it written out, and if something were spelled incorrectly, I doubt I'd ever figure out what it was supposed to be.