Something has been getting under my skin for awhile now.
People seem to have lost the ability to spell. Just because world communication is becoming increasingly focused in cyberspace, does not mean that we have to abandon the English language.
For your reference ‘something’ is NOT spelt ‘sumting’ ‘some’ is not spelt ‘sum’. Likewise ‘Thank You"’ is not spelt ‘TY’.
Usually my facebook frustrations are caused by people joining ridiculous fan pages such as “I Love People Who Text Back Instantly” or “mentally saying "Wed-nes-day" when writing the word "Wednesday."”. But I would never complain about them again if people would start to spell properly.
For example… gorjus, owt, wif, dat, da, iz, ho, blimn, dis, includin, sumthing, sum1, nufin.. THESE ARE NOT WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you all pretending to be gangsters or hip hop wannabes?
Please, just remember that the English language is a beautiful thing people! Let’s make 2010 a year of beautifully spelt prose.
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