If you ever read the comment sections of youtube or digg, you've
probably run across a posting like this:
dud dats totly asum u ar gr8!!!!!!
I know that more and more people are busy texting and chatting in IRC
and ICQ, and talk mode is totally acceptable there because, if you
were to compose grammatical sentences, or to spell out long words, it
would totally ruin the flow of the conversation.
Same goes for in game chatting. Rubbing it in when you totally pwnd
some noob in deathmatch is an appropriate use of talk mode. I'll even
go so far as to admit that talk mode is acceptable on twitter, after
all abbreviations allow you to pack more inane drivel into 140
characters.
A related peeve is the over use of 1337 speak in internet forums. if
you spell elite 1337 or even leet, you loose off of alt.2600:
ITZ TOT41Y 14|\/|3R D00DZ!!!!11!!!
If the last line of text looked like line noise to you, then you know
how annoying it is to read this crap.
Oh, by the way, why is the signal to noise ratio so low on Youtube. I
run into this crap everywhere, but Youtube is the absolute worse
effected site.
Okay, to be totally honest, any postings written in "txt" mode bug the hell out of me. Now don't get me wrong, I think there is a time and place for it while texting or gaming, etc... BUT! I feel it has become a bane on written communications. It's bad enough that people are already losing the ability to write via handwriting (check out your penmanship lately?), but now it is becoming acceptable to ignore the rules of spelling as well.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, I have no problem with it when people are texting one another or gaming. My issue is that people are infusing it into normal written communications such as reader comments at the end of news stories. As if their ignorant drivel weren't bad enough, I must now endure it being mispelled.
And yeah, I said "ignorant drivel" because about 90% of the people who respond to these stories or posts are simply adding a comment based on no previous knowledge of anything to do with the posts in question.
Do I really need to know you think, "OUCH! GR8 LNDING!" when I watch a video of a guy smashing his jewels? Nope, that comment really has no place simply because it can be assumed that anyone watching already realizes that it hurts.
Okay, I'm off my soapbox now. Later man!