Ah.. I am sure most of you would relate to the subject line. I just wonder why people cannot type the complete words when they are chatting / emailing. I do understand when it is an SMS when you are running short of the number of characters you are allowed to type.
English has taken a whole new avatar, with the advent of the SMS lingo. Now, all I can see is people saying they will "cum"to lunch, oh how much my friend and I laughed. I am not sure if they use it on purpose or it is just a "habit", but then, meaning of such sentences are sure to evoke laughter and many a time, start a thought process.
I do know someone who buzzes me on chat to tell me "cum to me". Eh ! cum to me? No I dont want to cum to you.. please.... what kind of statement is that? If you want me there, you can as well say "Can you please come here?"
I got this email yesterday "v hav r bus @ 6:30. dats y v stay bk till thn". I just wondered if this was meant to be typed as an SMS or an email. I had a tough time typing this out here, for I think spelling a word in its correct form is easier than using the weird lingo.
Someone said the other day "I dun think dis s crct". I, for a second, read that as something discreet. Eh, so much for short forms.
Looks like this form of English is here to stay, but am sorry, I cannot accept and understand this. Request all of you who email me / chat with me, to write proper English...
I dun thnk I cn say nethng else. :P
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The language is definitely being murdered and I don't like it one bit. There was a very brief moment about 7 years back when I first started using messengers and chat that I was using extensive amount of short forms. Thankfully, I recovered well and early. Nowadays, I even type SMS only in proper English, unless its a question of 3-4 characters that exceed the word limit.
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