Uhm... rant on spelling.

[silversolitaire]

Just been following the link to Tariana's ex (I hope you forgive me for being so nosy) and I'm utterly confused. I mean, do people actually talk like this?

I am taken - me 'n muh grrl have been togetha now fo'a month ... we wuz togetha once befo' but thangz wuznt rite fo uz den .. but day r now!!!

How someone could take the time and construct such intrepid spelling simply beats me. Is this supposed to be funny? ô_o

Don't get me wrong, I don't know this person and I don't mean to say anything about her as an individual, but honestly, this is something that annoys me to no ends. Why do people always put in those cutesy spelling errors? I mean, there are a few ones that I use myself and they are born from laziness, like "nite", "tho", "thanx", "pix" etc. There are other I never use, but I don't mind others doing so, like "u" and "ur". But sometimes it just gets out of hand! Like some people NEVER manage to write a plural without the "x"! Toirrible! And the "z" instead of the "s", what's the deal with that? Is this funny, or what? Do you show your sense for anarchy by abandoning common spelling? And while I'm at it, I loathe it when people spell "summary" with an "e".

*huff*

Okay, just a little rant here. I only wish ppl wud realize that ur not qt when u spell lika 6yo! Lordy!

Comments

People talk like that.

[azurelunatic]

English teachers all my life have told me that I write the same way I talk, and that's a good thing.

There are some people who should never write the same way they talk.

But yes, people actually talk that way. It's an entire other dialect of English, and I've got no personal problem with it -- as long as the person writing that way actually talks in the dialect, and as long as their spelling is internally consistant.

But -- that's no excuse for misspelling in general.

I've gone so far as to add to my user profile in various places that anyone attempting to hit on me ought to have at least half a clue on spelling. Exceptions are made for non-native speakers of English, of course, and the occasional misspelling's all right...

...but I frequently fail to respond to my ex when he IM's me with grotesque manglings of words he knows how to spell perfectly well.

[tariana.livejournal.com]

Jess actually talks like that, which is frightening. I think it's the whole "pretend-gangster" thing, LOL.

I don't know. She's psycho.