Let me first ask a question to everyone out there. For how long have we been reading magazines, novels, or at least newspapers? I agree most of you don’t like to read magazines and novels but what about newspapers? Don’t we read them daily? The reason why I asked this question is mainly because the so-called Internet English is making its mark big time. U, ur, de, dis, et al is the lingo of the internet users these days and inevitably a common sight. I’m sick and tired of wading my mind through these kinda texts and apparently to me it looks like they were actually written by dyslexic valley girls. *barf*
Okay, now forget about the spelling thing, I’m not a good speller myself but I make it a point to use the dictionary mode on my mobile phone or while on the internet I use Firefox web-browser which has an in-built spell checker. So whenever I go wrong, I’m informed. If that looks ugly while typing a text, what about the innumerable dots a person uses while typing a text? I always wonder if they are in any way luring Pac-man into some trap I don’t know about. And that’s kinda irritating when the user uses it umpteen times. The moment I see that, I feel like puking on it.
And the next thing which frustrates me while reading a text on the internet is when people elongate a word, like for example hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Screw them first for elongating that two-letter word. Eww, are they trying to ascertain the elasticity of that particular word? It’s after all only a two-letter word . *sigh*
June 29, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I suspect I am exactly the kind of writer/blogger you are talking about—Hmmmm—–don’t know what to tell ya dude—old dude here, and my style lets me make my point—and kinda like its whats charming about me—my crudity maybe—people slow down to gawk at car wrecks too, ya know what I’m saying—-for what its worth— I clean up good, and I shuck the aw shucks persona when in public—-but then again with a few beers—-”heeeeeeee’s baaaaaaack!!”