: Oh, and I skipped an important part here: it seems that with a lot of people,
: requesting that they take the time to write properly is actually
: *offensive*, and considered rude by other people around (even those who do
: (DISCLAIMER: This whole rant isn't against you, Blake. You write well enough
: for me, better than most people on the internet. This thread just got me
: thinking and I really needed to vent).
:D Thats good, because if it were, I'd have to find some way of mocking you that was both scathing and hilarious . On this topic, I have, I am embarrassed to report, turned in at lest one fith grade paper with the "words" "u" and "lol"
in them, and my teacher wanted to burn me for it. That was when I had just gotten AIM, and spent alot of time on it, yet couldn't type fast enough to put entire words in and get my point(s) across. Since then, my typing has inproved somewhat, and I can hardly read anything with more shorthand then "lol" and "g2g". Progress, I suppose.
