I'm the same mym so no, it's not just you. I can't for the life of me fathom this text language. Although saying that i do type the occasional "WTF?" or "LMAO" bt wen u spk lyk dis it drives me insane!
I've just been on Faceachebook and gave up on reading the newsfeed, it made my eyes melt
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I love my mobile as well krazykitty (N900) because it's got a full keyboard (and predictive text) so you tend to write properly. You find some people not only text talk but write one paragraph as one whole sentence as well - then I'm completely lost. I'm the same on FB Kerrylou - I give up half way down the page (or skip the feeds I know use text talk lol).

I will use things like LMAO, PMSL, LOL and then there is "our" talk such as BMs, FGs, MIL, and things like that but "dis tym, lyk dat, wiv dem" and things like that really wind me up!!!! lol. It annoys me in texts sometimes too!!! xx

I KNOW!!!!! lol. xx

I'm the same, it annoys the cr4p out of me, it takes too long for my brain to translate so I end up not reading it

Hahaha! It's not just me then. I thought I was being an old fashioned language snob, but I too *really* struggle to read/understand it when it's more than just the odd word.

It comes from when you could only cram a limited number of characters into a text in which case it made sense to come up with shorter ways of saying things, but these days with predictive text, full keyboards on smartphones and autocorrect on words and phones automatically gluing together multiple texts, there really is no excuse. It should be getting better rather than worse!

And yes - paragraphs! Please use more!! A huge wall of text with no breaks is sooooo hard to read. Nothing wrong at all with a long post, but please please please break it up a bit! Otherwise your eyes just lose where you got to when trying to read it, and then give up!

Haha - and how much like grannies do we all sound now?

I despise text talk & slang talk, it drives me mad!!

Oh AnD tHe OnEs ThAt TYpE LiKe ThIs...whats the deal? It takes way too long to type out

all I can think of is there is some kind of special program on peoples PCs that does it for them lol but it still looks dumb

Ohhh my friend instead of putting . at the end of sentences puts x ................why? SO annoying and takes up the same amount of space and time to do so why??? makes it really hard to read.

I am one of those annoyed by spelling of words and grammar - your you're there their they're to too

Sorry I write poetry and did English language at A level so incorrect spelling, grammar and stuff really irritates me - i do make the odd typo error but that is a little bit different! xxx

my eldest tried it on fb once, H2B is a teaching assistant and and as soon as he saw it, he made him type it out properly lol

i shorten some words like though- tho, moment- mo. cant think of anymore just now. but it does annoy me when people add letters to words. I have quite a few friends on facebook who do it and i hate it. One person was doing it so much that i deleted her!! I have a friend that puts x instead of . and that is annoying aswell.

my little sister always used to text be in text talk and i could never understand any of it so i told her that unless she types properly i would just delete the text and not read it. She soon started texting correctly xx

Haha boo - we had a guy in the online game who sPokE LiKe thAT. I could never figure out why? As you say, it takes longer to do than typing normally. Perhaps it's some cool internet thingy I missed, but no-one else in the game could figure out why either, so I figured he was just weird ;p

I love this, well done mym72 tfor starting it! I find it so annoying when people do not used punctuation to break up what they are writing. I know I'm not perfect and make mistakes but at least I try. Also agree with the paragraph thiing, it makes it so hard to read one massive chunk..especially when it has no breaks in it. I did Graphics and am aware of how size of text/fonts/puctuation/spacing all make a difference on how easy/hard it is to read something. I also have an annoying habit of correcting people on their speech and spelling.

As for text talk I do use it, but if I know the person/people who are going to be reading it will not like it, then I will not use it. When I first met h2b he would write a text with just words, no full stops, all blending into one. I would have to read it a few times before I got what he was saying. I eventually told him thats it was so annoying. He still does it now, but not quite as much.

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i totally agree with all of you, to be honest i feel it is just laziness and ( oh i better not put what else i think as i may get lynched)

Glad you all agree - and Hails I hate the adding letters thing as well. My cousin is at uni - and she does it all the time (think it's definitely a teen/student thing) but it annoys the hell out of me!!

Just my opinion, but yeah I think thats petty. If it was a formal e mail or letter then yeah I could understand but if its just informal chat i dont see the problem. No different to doing short hand if u ask me.

maybe coz your a teacher you feel that way but really doesnt bother me (sorry shouldnt use the word coz) lol

to be fair i dont think it has anything to do with being a teacher....... i have noticed alot on here that words are not spelt correctly and as a mod i spend alot of time sorting this out , this all comes about because people use the slang spellings and forget the correct ones

i am loving this thread!! I agree with pretty much everything that annoys everyone else. It is so frustrating to get a text that you have to decipher before sending a reply! I think you might as well phone the person as it would probably be quicker and definitely easier to understand. As for the adding of letters to words......I just don't get it at all! :)

no one is talking about the genuine spelling mistakes that are made ....this is about slang,text talk and general not bothering

It doesn't bother me if people do it at all, but I probably wouldn't read a post written in text speech - unless I fancy a challenge!

On a similar note, I have just discovered the amazing website 'damn you autocorrect' which is full of amusing mistakes made by i-phone's over-keen autocorrect. Makes me howl with laughter! x

well you definately started something here! ha ha.....I am with you....thumbs up for proper grammar!