Attitudes to text lingo on forum

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I hate text messaging abbreviations equally as much as I hate the slow and torturous murder of one of the most beautiful languages in the world.

What I find remarkable too are the people who identify themselves as being older than 40 having no real concept of the English language; its grammar or spelling. I find that more annoying than the younger generation as these people allegedly went to school before I did, and they try to speak from some moral high ground.

As such, normal words are often misused to the point of cringing at the thought of the perpetrators ever writing a professional letter to anybody. Some common mistakes are listed below.

Doesn’t becomes does'nt (the hyphen is used in place of the letter removed)
Etc becomes ect (etcetera, not ectetera)
To becomes too (no comment)
Their becoming there (their is speaking of a being; where "there" is descriptive of a place)
Where becomes were (where is like there, descriptive of a place; were means was)

And before I forget, the most basic rule taught in English classes around the nation is the rule of the 'i' before the 'e' except after 'c'. The amount of times I see decietful used as opposed to the correct spelling of deceitful is mesmerising. It can be said of reciept instead of correctly spelling receipt.

Whilst I appreciate technology can be to blame for the abbreviations of the younger generation, we should not allow standards to fall. Technology can be a useful tool in eliminating these problems as well. Try a spell check once in a while.

Genuine mistakes will always happen with hastily typed replies, but systematically forgetting to even read what is written is really poor form.