What do you think of text language? Is it convenient or irritating?

Question

What do you think of sentences made up of words like....
'gd' instead of 'good'
'd' instead of 'the'..
'2' instead of 'to'..
etc..

... I personally find it irritating but what do you think and why?

Answer 1

it's bloody annoying. i can cope with the odd '2' and 'u' etc. but it's getting silly now. i can't understand the majority of text messages, they take serious code-breaking skills to decipher. and it's not just text messages, kids at school are using this kind of bollocks in their writing too.
funny story, i was on a summer school with some kids and they had to fill in an evaluation form. one of the questions was:
'how could we have improved the course?'
to which one kid answered:
'U C*NT' meaning 'you couldn't'.
i realise that this word will be deleted by yahoo but i'm sure you can guess the missing letter.

Answer 2

It's definitely convenient when it comes to trying to fit a message into the character limit. I've no problem with "d", "2", ""b", basic ones like that. However, it's overdone a lot of the time and some people don't know when to stop. There have been exam papers handed up written in text language, for goodness sake. The generation growing up with mobile phones at a young age will have no clue of proper spelling and grammar.

Answer 3

Irritating

Answer 4

I'm old so initially found it very irritating in the light of my superior spelling but as time goes on I find it fascinating, challenging and the most irritating thing is not knowing what the abbreviations me, KK? I now think it is fun but it should not be a substitute for learning to spell correctly. Though I know what you are thinking, how often do you really need to spell 'correctly'.

Answer 5

I get really irritated by this-especially when used outside of texting-such as on here or other forums. I understand when texting it is often used to save space to get an entire message in (though I still don't like it)-but there is no reason to 'spell' that way all the time!!

Answer 6

More confusing than annoying, but that can be irritating too. Ironically, the original question contains an abbreviation of a much longer word, one that we all accept: "etc." So sometimes it's convenient...

Answer 7

I like using it as its easier in case you are trying to type a very long message since the messages on phones can only be 160 characters long so thats why they invented this language the da gets kind of irriating but the other parts are okay, like b4, or 2, 4, 8, etc its not that big of a deal, but like ttyl, hand, and stuff like that are that bad, it saves you alot of time and b/c is shorter, or bc, whatever, but seriously I like using that on the computer but I still can use the good old english but sometimes it gets confusing when you type n2mohjc, or something long like that, or awgtgtta, (nothing to much over here just chilling), and (are we going to go through this again), but r and u arent that bad. So its not irritating to me but thats an opinion l8te.r

Answer 8

I think text language has it's place, and that's on text messages via a mobile phone. When sending a text message you only have a certain amount of characters to work with so shortening words makes sense.
Using it elsewhere is just lazy, and bad manners if others have expressed that they don't like it.
Almost as bad as l33t, but not quite.

Answer 9

When schoold children put these words into their essays, then I worry.
My friend is a teacher and kids really do use this language in formal writing.
I find it irritating but not as irritating as a misplaced apostrophe!

Answer 10

I find it irritating too. My 16 year daughter texts me this way and it takes me twice as long to figure out what she is trying to say. Guess I am just used to the good old days when we used proper english.