Stupid Text Shortcuts

Hands up to those of you who get drained trying to decipher text and email messages of those who can't bother to spell words properly and assume their phonetic vision is universal. I know someone who at first thought the act of text messages was stupid then when they finally had to resort it never strayed past the jeepney driver level of text application. Using multitap and the shortcuts that just make my head spin. These people more often than not use the same shortcut for two or three different words. The weird part is messages with a dictionary are faster to make, easier to make and easier to read than doing all the work yourself. Cell phones come with a dictionary and if they are too lazy to use it or they are too lazy to put in enough letters to make sense then we should also be too lazy to decode it.

I got this idea from :

http://onlydancesforyou.multiply.com/photos/album/141/Wer_na_u_Hir_na_me_Uh._No._Please.#

And it really struck a chord with me. If you click the link you will see through the use of signs in public exactly what we mean about the decline of literacy in this so called high tech world. It maybe happened once or twice but this even happened at work when I got an incident report as if it was texted by a jeepney driver. Bottom line if you know anyone who throws all grammar to the wind just because they have a cell phone in their hands, forward them the link above .

Ed