I Write Sins - Not Tragedies.

Okay, this is an ongoing argument for me. I actually hate when people write in shorthand. You know, those stupid little 'shortened versions of words' which ultimately take longer for people with a scrap of intelligence to read than it would have if they had written it in English because we simply can't understand a word of it.

You know the type of thing I'm talking about... The sort of stuff that comes out like:

"hy bbz, hwz it gng? did u wach dsprte hswives lst nite? omgzzz it ws amzng" or whatever the hell they say. By the way, for those of you who speak English, and not Dumbass, that translates to,

"Hey, babes! How's it going? Did you watch Desperate Housewives last night? oh my god, it was amazing!"

Now. Simple things like, 'omg' and 'wtf' don't bother me. But it's when people manage to write a phrase, and miss out almost every single vowel in the entire sentence. I don't understand what the big deal is! Fair enough if you're retarded and actually can't spell. And also fair enough if you are severely, and I stress the word 'severely', short on money on your phone and you're writing a very long text that, if written in full, may take up three messages, rather than one. But seriously. People who are just too damn lazy to learn to type and spell at the same time just bug me. It's not even multi-tasking! It's common fucking sense!!

Honestly, there are even people who can't even spell their own name just because it's typed on a computer. Now that's just seriously sad.

People say that it takes longer to write everything in full. But you know, it really doesn't. If you actually get used to spelling almost everything like it's meant to, then it actually ends up taking you longer to write everything shorthand than it does to type it out full. It took me about 3 times longer to write my shitty bum example up there compared to the translation, and, no joke, I'm a seriously fast typer. Call me sad. At least I can spell.

And not only does shorthand text make you look like a dumbass when you type it, but it makes you look like a dumbass to examiners too. I actually wouldn't have thought this possible, but there are actually people who end up writing essays in shorthand. Really, there are. And examiners will just read the first line, walk away, and go watch CBBC instead. Because at least that won't slaughter their brain cells to the point where they're a human vegetable.


The lessons we learned today:

A. If you type like a dumbass, you look like a dumbass.
B. Learn to spell.
C. Typing like an ass is hazardous to your future.

End vent.