Pet Peeve #37 - Net Speak
omwtfbbq!!1! ur up n my chtng?!?111?!
Ahem.
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Yes, doing that broke at least three of my pet peeves, but sometimes a person has to do what’s necessary.
Everyone is in a hurry, but that gives you no right to inflict your primarily vowel-less, over-punctuated, I USE CAPITALS BECAUSE THEY’RE LOUD, dirty spanking of the English language on me.
Honestly, I’m guilty of a little bit of it too, but I was never like the above, and I had a specific reason other than pure laziness to do it. I also succumb to the occasional “LOL”, but that’s pure mimicry of people I chat with a lot.
And those are still not good enough excuses.
If you insist on not kicking your habit of over-punctuation when writing posts/emails/etc, don’t care to be consistent in all you do, and basically don’t respect other people enough to take those extra milliseconds to type out full words, then guess what…
I am in no way going to read your work.
If you ask me to read your work with “plz rd my stffz” instead of “please read my work” then tough luck to you because I won’t. You obviously don’t respect me or your other readers outside your work, so I don’t care about what’s going on in your work.
It’s as simple as that.
September 19th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Ok. This post should have come with a spew alert.
Too funny.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I’m glad you enjoyed it.