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Thursday, October 28, 2004
"heckcare lar...2am oredi n im stil awake....hahax dunno wat to sae oso....nw my mind lyke all blank lyke dat...todae lyke do nth de...sibei sian juz fin de tut for tml lesson....(and more sms/chat lingo)"
OR
"hEcKcArE laR! 2am alReaDY n iM sTiL aWaKe....hOw fReaKiNg LoNg dOeS iT aCtuALly TaKe tO tyPe LiKe tHiS?????"
Why do they not type in conventional English? Isn't it easier to read? Imagine if I'm an old granny trying to read this and realised I'm someone out of this world because I can't understand the sms/chat lingo you are trying to type here. Clearly, sms/chat lingo is for you to use in sms/chatrooms ONLY.
Then, the second type of typing irritates me like, wHaT tHe HeLL iS tHiS??? I mean, I don't understand the logic behind typing this way. This is even worse than the first kind. I think the only logic behind this kind of typing is to "beautify" the words. Which actually is not beautiful, especially if you are typing in this way for an entire chunk of passage which totals up to 1,000 words. Don't you ever get tired with the shift-tab typing this way??? You might as well type it this way:
"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an enligsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe."
Of course I'm not saying I blog in perfect English and phrasing. In fact, I myself, am guilty of using short forms like "juz", "coz", "lar", blah blah. I'm just trying to say that when I read passages fully typed in this manner, it takes a longer time for me to fully comprehend what the blogger is trying to say because by the time I decipher your "code", I would have forgotten what I had read in the first line.
That said, I won't mind something like this:
"Gd Nite! Sweet Dreamz!!"
OR
"GooD NiGhT!! SwEeT DreAmZzz!"
Wow! 1.5 more days to go! ;)
