Descartes wrote:
What about that god-awful
textspeak that so many young people are into these days (boy do I sound old right now

). Every time I see someone
writn lyke dis, I want to puke. This is an abomination upon the English language!
I'm young and I dislike the chatspeak and gangsta talk as well.

I get annoyed and have trouble comprehending while reading 80 percent of the text on the internet that's written in shorthand!
I am a grammar Nazi, and love to ridicule anyone who misspells the simplest words and uses the wrong form of "your you're" and "they're their there"!