You might recall that | article | I wrote on the SLXS rules of Facebook. Here is another one and I can’t believe I forgot it earlier.
Dnt tlk 2 me n idiot. Gud?(Facebook translation to “Don’t talk to me in idiot. Good?)
Look, I know you type like this when sending sms’s so that you can save space and therefore money. But since when would you send someone an e-mail like this? It is easy to type on a computer and there is no reason to write like a juvenile delinquent or a donkey. Do you know how long it takes me to decipher your Star Wars code? It literally takes an eternity. It’s like trying to crack The Da Vinci code every single day of my life.
“Im gud fanx, lets hit da club tomz”(I’m good thanks, lets hit the club tomorrow) ARE YOU JOKING? Did your mother teach you to use this language? Because it is horrendous.
Call me a stickler, because I am a writer, but I hate it when people use idiot talk. I believe things like Facebook and sms’s are breeding a whole new generation of idiots. I know people who actually cannot spell anymore. A lot of people. It’s like evolution. Only evolution makes things better usually.
People will even send out event invites with this spelling. Do you realise how stupid this makes you sound? I also love it when people create groups and in the group description there are a whole host of spelling errors and so called “Sms speak”
I probably wrote better when I was an infant. A little infant child. A little tyke. A little boy riding a tricycle with a little blonde flick of hair perched atop my head. A little boy running in the sunlight playing with butterflies and singing nursery rhymes in my famous “Barry White” tone of voice.
A little boy who one day wanted to write and build the Great Wall of China out of brawn. A man who wanted to invent the wheel and melt steel with his bare hands.
A man who now edits this page
NOTE: I lost it towards the end there. It’s the excitement of the weekend.
Sean Lloyd
Editor
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