People who text in shorthand - VENT

I only have one person who texts like that, and it's my 77 year old father, and yes, it's ridiculously stupid. Even the grandkids who are 15-26 think it's ridiculous.

However, I would never say anything to him about it. That would be just as rude.

Why limit your complaint to texting. What about posting here. I know there are lists somewhere that will tell me what those letters mean but why would I waste the time looking. I think I miss the humour in some posts because the humour is embedded in the stupid letters.

The worst for me are the television shows that people post about and only use letters to denote the show's title. I read their message and all it says is "did you see last night's show, what did you think".
So I don't bother to go back to those threads.

And I just love the ones that someone wishes to discuss their disease but only give letters as if I should know every disease by its short form. Why can't they give the full name of the disease at the beginning and then I don't care if they use the short form because they have told me what they are talking about.

I know some do it to speed up things but mainly I just guess that the person cannot spell the words.

That makes me crazy, anywhere. We have a friend on face book that types out everything except the word "you", he will just type "u". Really, those two extra letters were beyond you? Agh.

This is what texting is for, in my opinion. It's the most casual form of communication. Save the more formal, complete word format for conversation, emails, essays, etc. Always amazing, what bothers the peas.

Makes me mental.

I personally use the "talk to text" feature on my phone. Bingbangboom, the text is done and about 3 minutes faster than it would have been with my texting style.

I have a friend - and I do love her dearly -- but her use of "text shorthand" makes me crazy -- or cringe when I see her do it on her professional Facebook page!

Okay -- I just nearly responded to another post with O.M.G. ..... I guess that would be okay!!

Sorry. I can't help it. I have got to laugh at your vent that ends with "secs" instead of the word seconds.

And for the record, I'm not really annoyed by the abbreviations as long as they aren't overused.

I wasn't referring to the acronyms so much. I'm more talking about "u", "ur", "2", or those type of things. It's seriously only a couple more letters, and in the time of smart phones, half of the time you type one letter and it auto-generates the rest for you!

My friend and I can have entire conversations with just emojis. We have so much fun doing that. Other than those, I usually use complete words because I can't remember the acronyms.

The invention of texting is absolutely where it came from, when you used nine keys and had to hit them multiple times to come up with a single letter, heaven forbid you missed that letter and had to go around again. Same for the origination of shorthand, when a secretary, etc, had to handwrite dictation.

But, when the invention of the dictation machine and then computers came along, shorthand fell by the wayside because you could then type out what was dictated instead of needing to scribble quickly everything that was said. I feel the same way about texting. We don't need to use "u" or "ur" anymore, it's not *that* much of a timesaver. It actually takes MORE time to type "gr8" than "great" or "2" instead of "to" because you have to change the keyboard to the number board on my phone at least.

Acronyms are different, in my opinion, as long as they are widely known.

I despise it.

Unless you are 4 and legitimately think you is spelled u or you still have a flip phone from 1998, there is no reason or excuse to text like that. You look ridiculous.

It's even worse when people write like that here.

Y u b h8n?

Good point. LOL I didn't even see that. My vent, what bothers me personally, isn't so much the occasional abbreviation (omg, fyi, lol etc) but people who's entire message is just a seemingly random mish-mash of letters. I've received texts that looked like this : omg lol cu 4 dn 2nt. fyi G wbt lol emoji emoji emoji lmnop ttyl....I'm reading it thinking oh my God I'm having a stroke.