Dus ne1 gree dat txt spk s gr8 n we shud use mor of it. Cos it kule. Or do I sound like a total a r s e?

Answer 1

na i agree wid ya hun itz ace
itz mor shorta n it takes less time 2 rite fingz e.g hi itz steph wuu2 lol itz easier

Answer 2

Go for it, however it looks pretty hard to pass english grammer with txt spk. Personally I perefer to mispell some words to show that I'm human. As I work in a call center a mixture of txt spk and regular writing is easier to read than the pure form of either one, when you write notes

Now for my two points lets see if I can txt spk what I just wrote

go 4 it, hwevr it loks prty hrd 2 pas inglsh gramr w/ txt spk. prsnaly i prefr 2 mspl sum wrds 2 shw tht i'm huan, as i wrk in a cal cntr a mxtur of txt spk & reg riting is esier 2 read thn pur 4m of ethr 1 whn u rite nots

er well...

Answer 3

Text speak is ok on limited character mobiles if you've a lot to write, and want to write it quickly. However on "Answers" there's no excuse for using text speak, as the name suggests, it was designed for messaging on mobiles.

However, text speak encourages bad habits and leads to bad comprehension of the English language. Sad to say, but there's a generation of kids nowadays growing-up thinking these abbreviations are the norm', which is not very "KOOL" at all.
Yep! You do sound like a total A R S E !!

Answer 4

Abbreviations like this evolved in order to shorten the time it takes people to send text messages. However, just because they're used there, that doesn't mean they should be used everywhere. Besides, we have (almost) limitless space in which to write our answers, so abbreviating this way makes no sense in a forum like this.

Let's look at it another way. Suppose cell phones had been invented by Shakespeare's time and he had incorporated abbreviations like this into his plays. Would it be easier or harder to parse stuff like "2B or not 2B"? If you didn' t know the context of Hamlet's speech, you might wonder whether he was talking about whether it's better to live or die or whether he's confused about which apartment to enter.

Answer 5

It depends who you want to address.

there are people who are very comfortable with txt spk, and some like me who have to work very hard to decipher the message.

So use txt spk when addressing the 'enlightened' group, and 'proper' English when you want to address everyone (I'm assuming txt spkrz also read and understand English).

Answer 6

The latter.

I can see that it's useful when texting because it's quicker, but otherwise you just look ignorant. Some of the words don't even use fewer letters, so they're completely useless (e.g. "kule")!

Answer 7

Texting is great to use on mobile phones but is awful for teaching kids how to speak and spell english. You sound about 12 years old!

Answer 8

Text speak annoys me in a TEXT. My god people you were given brains and a language so speak it properly. It makes me feel like Stewie on Family Guy when he was trying to get that London baby to be posh!

"You don't so much speak the language as chew on it and spit it out! ... Look, here's a shiny sixpence if you keep your mouth shut and go away."

Classic!

Answer 9

You sound like a total a r s e. Text language is ok in texts and IM conversations, but there is no need for it here.

Answer 10

More the latter. Txt spk shifts the effort from you typing to your reader working it all out. Not courteous, when it is your message that you want to be read.

Answer 11

I agree with the second part of your question: you do sound like a total a r s e.