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What's wrong with great as gr8?.
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- I speed-read; I scan over the body of the text and pick out relevant points, and if it interests me I read it thoroughly. Chatspeek irritates all hell out of me so I don't bother trying - besides, everyone seems to have their own "dialect" which leads to the need to ask "could you repeat the in English please, I don't understand?"
...plus, chatspeek/AOLspeek/whatever just makes a person look childish, like they don't have the ability to construct a proper sentence with real words.
I mean, imagine you're looking on an art gallery which doesn't show thumbnails but text links. You see two links; "OMG i drew ths 4 my friend their a gr8 drawer lol!!!1" and "This is a detailed watercolour and pencil illustration I was commissioned to draw by a friend of mine. Mixed media, taking inspiration from photographs she provided me with." Who would YOU click on to look at if you had just one more click before your computer crashed? I mean, that pencil and watercolour sketch could look like a five-year-old drew it, and the "OMG i are teh gr8 drawer!" be a masterpiece, but hey, you don't know that from the description. AOLspeak is the most ridiculed invention the intarweb has to show for itself - on an instant messenger I admit it has its uses, but this is a forum - you don't HAVE to write fast.
omg coherent writing, lol!!!!!1one!!