One of my biggest pet peeves is not using even remotely proper English. For example:
“How r u?”
Bugs the crap out of me, spend the extra 0.7 seconds and type the entire thing:
“How are you?”
You don’t even have to capitalize it:
“how are you?”
..just fine. Exceptions to this rule are “words” such as ‘brb’, ‘lol’, ‘rofl’, ‘imho’, etc. that are specific to the Internet community.
I do have some sympathy for the “young ones”, so I won’t bitch them out and I typically won’t bitch out my peers (but they already know that I don’t like that kind of short hand), but the older folk…well. I’ll just send them my response in leet speak (the ulitmate form of Internet speach):
“How r u?”
“1 4m 600d. H0w 4r3 y0u? rofl, rofl, rfol, lmao, lol!”
You get the point (or you soon will).
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