This is from the anal thread.

lol i use the occational text speak as in rolf lol and such. but i also send ridiculasly long texts to people as i hate text speak. i am terrible with punctuation though. i always forget the ' . , making it one hell of a lot of nonsence

I use txtese depending on who I'm texting. If it's the kids or my boyfriend I use it as much as I can be bothered, anyone else and it's usually things like "too;to;two = 2" "for;four = 4" "why = y" and a few other little one's, but only the obvious ones.

When writing any other way, it's proper English all the way..... well, kinda

Ive never used the txt stuff on the mobile, I like predicitve text, even if sometimes the words ends up being "c***" instead of aunt lol

"Im going to be good at the weekend"
and
"Im going to be home at the weekend"

Same buttons, very different meanings. Predictive text is bad.

Text speak is good for phones, bad writing messages on a forum.

yeah...put predictive text on, then type "coal"...then press the asterisk button...a couple of times....lol

I have yet to get a correct word from predictive text. It's a Sony Erricson that I use.




Hey look, here's me moaning about typing properly on the phone and I bugger up the topic title. It should have been "I'm a grumpy old fart, aren't I?"
Oh dear...

Me and my ex went through a stage of texting, using predictive text, and not correcting any words ... such a laugh

Yeah that really bugs me. I've actually corrected people's spelling on myspace comments, I'm that sad.

You can forgive people on texts when they're limited to the number of letters they can use, but on a forum you've got as much space and time as you need to write PROPERLY. Can you tell I'm a teaching assistant?

haha, Well, I don't really do one to one tuition so you'll have to sort yourself out there.