Whew, I guess the conversation in that post is laughable. That person write english like a toddler instead of teenager, plus he's got no manner of asking a person's assistance!

Well sometimes I shorten words like people into ppl or won't into wont, shouldn't into shouldnt etc. But I hardly abbreviate any other since I found they are troublesome and might annoy people who read.

Yeah my group of friends at school does this alot; we're all gamers and geeks, with a sense of humour about it all. We're big fans of Pure Pwnage, so we like to poke fun at this sort of speech.
When it comes to chatting, I can take a few abbreviations here and there, but for anything more formal (message boards, letters, schoolwork, websites, etc) it really bugs me.

I like how he actually took his time to go "lesson 1" "lesson 2". Just use that effort in the damn grammar rather than explaining his own language.

i find this kind of typing to annoy me a little. when people don't capitalize the first letter in the beginning of a sentence and as well as people names. makes the use of periods seem kinda dumb.

Yea I know this form was used in that conversation posted but I have to be honest. For certain online games however I am forced to dumb down my typing style because the chat bubble is so small and no use of the keyboard(just so you know I am referring to the gamecube's PSO) makes for proper spelling and grammar to take too long and the person who has a keyboard can fly through sentences. Meanwhile you feel like you're wasting thier time because it takes you about 2-3 minutes to type up a sentence if you were to use proper english.

A pet peeve of mine is when a lot is treated as one word.

From what I can gather, "anybody" is less specific to the discussed or intended persons. That is, "anybody" puts more force towards the concept of "any human," as opposed to the specificity of "anyone," which leaves more emphasis on the people themselves as opposed to their physical being.

lol I'm surprised you even continued the conversation with him. I would have kicked him out halfway through.

Anyway its surprisingly he even bothered to talk, the majority of such people here tend to basically fire out what they want in crappish English, then shut up when they get it/don't get it.

It wouldn't have gotten past the first six lines if I had to "converse" with him. If he (or anyone else for that matter) wants to talk like a dyslexic retard, he can do so to someone else.

Stupidity is popular on this internet of serious business.
Honestly, I've never seen anyone use "fink" to mean "think." What has the world come to?!

You're more tolerant than I am. Three lines in and I would have been tempted to go through my monitor and impale the person on the other side with a javelin through the eye. Anybody messages me with that crap and I give eem a few lines in before I hit the block button.

I mean really, is it too hard to typeout a coherent sentence? Nobody really gives a rats ass about a few typos here and there, but when your AIM conversations start to look like secretary shorthand somethings wrong.

What really chaps my ass though isn't necessarily internet speak (though I will admit that the example in question posted annoys the hell out of me). What REALLY chaps my ass is ebonics.

Ebonics is just f'in lazy. A few weeks ago some kid was talking to me and I had to ask him twice to repeat himself cause he darn near sounded like he was speaking in tongues.

The entire concept behind it is asinine and shamefull that kids <b>and<b> adults cant be assed to learn proper english.

I'm normally a very good typist and put effort into grammar, but when it comes to typing out something like a resume or something I instantly go to pot.
I ALWAYS make some random idiotic error on my resume, even if I revise it over and over.
Just a tip kids: Always have someone else look over your resume. For some reason some people are completely unable to do it themselves.

Ascii isn't texting.

Ascii is where you're talking l¡Ķĕ ╂ĥıŠ. It's annoying, it isn't cool, and I don't know how they manage to find the time to dig up the character codes just for a sentence. Most pointless thing alive.

Don't worry, it's happening for every language. My eyes hurt every time I read really obvious mistakes in French (my 1st language).

Technology seems to make people lazy

Hell, they've got them. They've got them like numbers on speed dial.

I guess--to get back to the point--people just have to be aware that online, other people will assume you're at some level of maturity.
I sometimes find it funny that people wnat to write an intelligent article, post it online, and I end up reading about independance, loosing something, or doing things more good...wtf...It'll be the day when someone invents 'duck tape' or 'mannaise'. Hmm. I wonder how that tastes like.

I'm glad I don't know many people who use ASCII. It takes more than a day for me to decipher it.

I, myself, am horrible with spelling and written grammar. Some say it is a sign of genius, I say I'm just stupid. Either way, I do use IM phrases like "lol" and "rofl" while IMing. I have caught myself in real life almost saying lol before. I about died when I did that. Most times I type lol because I am busy doing something else and the person that IMed me is one of those annoying people that constantly ask if you are still there if you don't talk every five seconds. It is easy and quick to type.