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"Enjoy it", that's really cool. Did you make it up yourself?

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"No, he or she is attempting to communicate in a totally degraded and degrading sequence of letters and words vaguely resembling the English language."

The written word, "standard" or otherwise, is the representation of the spoken language. The text style example we are discussing communicates its message because it adequately represents the spoken language. There is nothing in that text that cannot be semantically understood, and the same cannot be said for many messages on the forum which are in more standard forms. There is also nothing whatsoever vague about that message as a whole. But I wouldn't categorise it as an interesting read. Nor would I tell its author to shut up.

I think that your pedantry stems from the fear that viewing this "pollution" will somehow compromise your own language skills, and that these non-standard forms will creep into your own language and you will embarrass or discomfit yourself. But I don't think that is a rational fear, particularly as your grip of the "standard" is hardly tenuous, and you are not obliged to read non-standard messages anyway.

"the author of the message you've used to exemplify your complaint IS communicating in English "

No, he or she is attempting to communicate in a totally degraded and degrading sequence of letters and words vaguely resembling the English language.

""The truth is that a message written that way would be perfectly acceptable to you if it were specifically for your own benefit."

How do you presume to know this?"

I doubt that you would complain about a message such as, "u left ya lites on", for example. Or "u aint put ya binz out. I dun it 4 ya".

"I can perfectly understand the message, and so can you if you try. If you don't want to try, just ignore it."

I do ignore most of this type of trash, but sometimes it annoys me that people care so little for their own language to write this way and have obviously wasted their years at school which were paid for by the rest of us. Also it clutters up the site!

"The truth is that a message written that way would be perfectly acceptable to you if it were specifically for your own benefit."

How do you presume to know this?

Grumpywoman,

"iv bin on the fone 2 these people....." (trimmed)

Trying not to rake over old ground, the author of the message you've used to exemplify your complaint IS communicating in English and that cannot be denied. I can perfectly understand the message, and so can you if you try. If you don't want to try, just ignore it. The truth is that a message written that way would be perfectly acceptable to you if it were specifically for your own benefit. On the other hand, you would quietly ignore the author of boring, meaningless postings provided the author had adhered to your rules. Would you tell someone giving you directions to shut up because he was not speaking grammatically?

"I don't critcise people for the odd spelling mistake or bit of incorrect punctuation, but stuff like this;"

You've got it wrong again.

Well spotted Smithy! I missed that one.

I don't critcise people for the odd spelling mistake or bit of incorrect punctuation, but stuff like this;

"iv bin on the fone 2 these people 4 3 days now I think I must ov spoke 2 at least 15 different people of which nun ov them cud speak english half of them were proper rude 2 me,a couple of them hung the phone up on me,1 was ment 2 call me back and dident,not 1 of them no how 2 do ther job my last phone call was 2 tell them that I want 2 cancel my contract with them because I think the service is disgusting and the staff I also will not be paying a disconection fee and will never use ther service again..A load of idiots..."

Grumpyoldwoman

The problem with getting petty about spelling and calling something semi-literate rubbish just because a word is spelt incorrectly is that people are prone to do the same to you.

"I am free to continue to critisise and poke fun at the total cr*p that some people think constitutes a comment."

Perhaps you should check how "criticise" is spelt?

I would normally consider it rude to correct someone's English usage but you really do ask for it.

Posting semi-literate gibberish DOES show disrespect for the other posters on here; it's part of the general "can't be bothered" attitude shown by far too many people these days.

I have no respect whatsoever for anyone who can't be bothered to even try to write their comments properly; if they can't make the effort to write it properly why should I make the effort to read it?

And yes, it is a public forum and I am free to continue to critisise and poke fun at the total cr*p that some people think constitutes a comment. If that is bullying; well they can just go and play on facebook!