Why do some people type without vowels?

Question

I have to ask because it's bugging me as to how many people ask/answer questions using shortcuts, like not using vowels or just shortening words. For example:please becomes PLZ.
Come on people! You have at least 300 or more to work with when you type your questions/answers. Use the whole ******* alphabet you lazy bums!

Don't these people realize that it's harder to understand what the hell they are trying to say?

Answer 1

i think so because they are lazy

Answer 2

It's all a shortcut..
And sense your mind is "conditioned" to make sense of what it sees and hears.. It is accepted that the mind will automatically
add whatever it needs to add to make something understood by you. Therefore writing PLZ, your mind quickly puts into the equation the vowels. Vowels are important to out brains they stay on the forefront in our minds and it's easy to use them. And since we are lazy and like shortcuts we type without vowels and make you do all the work to figure out what we are thinking. Laziness breeds creativity.

Answer 3

In this day and age you should know...Most people are text message freaks...so to shorten the words they type makes it quicker to move on to something new...For the most part I agree that some people are just lazy however, keeping up with the times of moving at a fast past, is just how it is done...

Answer 4

People who don't love their language structure wants to change their language in a few years. It will be too difficult to understand the meaning like Arabic language without signs. For example the word "ktb" without vowels
means book, author, writer,...

Answer 5

Bcs thy thnk shrthnd's bttr thn lnghnd (because they think shorthand is better than longhand)

Answer 6

it makes me mad to because there is no point to misspelling everyother word. I hate how lazzy some people are, i don't know why people do this. My best guess is to piss people off.

Answer 7

Seriously...

Answer 8

you have to buy them on wheel, and they cost $250

Answer 9

Ahh... the answer is in your question... lzy... slakrs.. etc

Answer 10

We live in a world of text messaging. It has resulted in a new language. I feel that this gives our teens a sense of power since they have their own coded language. Most of their parents don't understand them and if you are sending multiple text messages on your mobile phone you look for shortcuts.

Check out what CNN had to say about text messages.
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- The text messages on Margarete Stettner's cell phone are filled with shortcuts -- like "G2G" for "got to go" and "LOL" instead of "laugh out loud." Even when she isn't using her phone, the lingo sometimes makes its way into what she writes.

"It does affect, sometimes, how I do my schoolwork," the 13-year-old from Hartland, Wis., said as she shopped in a mall, where cellular phones are as common as low-cut jeans. "Instead of a Y-O-U, I put a U."

That alarms some linguists, who worry that the proliferation of text messaging -- where cell phone users type and send short messages to other phones or computers -- will enforce sloppy, undisciplined habits among American youths.

Other experts, though, don't think the abbreviations will leave their mark on standard English.

In June 2001, wireless phone users sent 30 million text messages in the United States, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, an industry trade organization. By June 2002, that number had increased to nearly 1 billion.

The method is most popular among teenagers, according to Upoc Inc., a New York-based firm that helps users of mobile devices share information on everything from the rapper Bow Wow to celebrity sightings. A study by Upoc in 2001 found 43 percent of cellular phone users ages 12 to 17 used text messaging, compared with 25 percent of those 30 to 34.

Those teenagers, hampered by limited space and the difficulty of writing words on numeric phone keypads, helped create the text-messaging lingo.

Words were abbreviated ("WL" for "will") and common phrases became acronyms ("by the way" turned into "BTW").

There are even dictionaries to sort out the meaning of, say, "AFAIK" ("As far as I know").

"SOL" can mean "sooner or later" or "sadly out of luck," but if you're unclear on which was meant, simply message back a "W" (what?) or "PXT" (please explain that) for a clarification.

Jesse Sheidlower, principal editor of the U.S. office of the Oxford English Dictionary, said text messaging is going through the natural progression of language.

Much text-messaging lingo was first used in instant-messaging programs on personal computers, and some phrases, such as "SWAK" for "sealed with a kiss," have been used for decades, Sheidlower said.

As text messengers discover and share new abbreviations and acronyms, the language becomes familiar to a growing population of cell phone users. And as more people use the lingo for text messaging, Sheidlower said, it is more likely to spill into speech or writing.

That worries American University linguistics professor Naomi Baron, who said text messaging is another example of a trend in written communication.

"So much of American society has become sloppy or laissez faire about the mechanics of writing," Baron said.

Problems arise when people use the casual language in other forms of written communication, such as e-mail, in which the sender may not receive the message for some time, or writings in which the reader may not even know the author, she said.

But other linguists said a simpler, more relaxed vernacular is acceptable for talking or text messaging.

"Language and languages change," said Carolyn Adger, director of the Language in Society Division of the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington. "Innovating with language isn't dangerous."

And besides, Adger said, text messaging, like e-mail and instant messaging, is making it easier for people to communicate.

"I think that all of this stuff is really wonderful, because it's expanding the writing skills of people," she said.

Text messaging hardly appears to have hurt written language in Europe, where 10 billion text messages are sent each month, said Charles Golvin, senior analyst with Forrester Research.

In fact, as more adults began using text messaging in Britain and Germany, the lingo fell out of favor, said Alex Bergs, a visiting linguistics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Even teenagers use the language for only a while, he said.

One teen in Milwaukee, college student Jeremy Rankin, spends quite a bit of time using wireless devices in his job at a cell phone store. The 18-year-old admits he sometimes finds himself abbreviating when he types.

"I might do it by accident, but I don't think that's a problem as far as school papers go," he said. "I proofread my stuff."