It drives me nuts that so many people have abandoned basic English in their e-mailing and online messaging. Don't get me wrong. I am no master of the English language and I am not one of those grammar snobs who have given up being polite to people in the the zealous quest for the proper use of semi-colons. But I still like to have the odd period thrown into text communications to allow me to know when to stop one thought and begin another.
I am also a little leary about the shortening of words by removing letters in order to save time. For instance "im sry i dnt pss eng n sc so i tp ts wy" is far to vague to leave up to my imaginative mind (my guess would be "I'm sorry I didn't pass English in school so I type this way").
Again, I don't want to be fanatical about all of this. Sometimes taking letters from words can be fun. For instance, what 9 letter word in the English language continues to form another word each time you remove a letter from it? At least I think that's how the question goes - remember I'm no master in these things.
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