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I could make the same argument towards you. I just find your views unreasonable and your hate unwarranted, and repeatedly given reasons as to why. (Unless by "take in" you mean accept then I guess I haven't taken them in.) You're ignoring these reasons/arguments and instead attacking my character by saying i'm not open minded or something. When are you going to debate me in a valid way. Or do you just want to insult me now? lol

Well how about instead of the whole point of having a discussion with someone be about saying you instead of u, it's having a meaningful conversation? Just a thought. Also the effort to be intelligible requires intelligent thought not that you spelt some random word correctly.

I find it sad that you think the whole point to posting is simply to spell well, it must be why I've had such few meaningful conversations on this site.

That's another thing. People who are speaking English {well... American English } as their second language will not be able to understand. I think you do a really good job with your English Pea. English is confusing enough as it is. No proper conjunctions or forms like Dative, Genitive that make understand everything easier. Instead you get the "cat's tail" which can be translated "the tail of the cat" to most languages, but some just can't translate nicely.

The ability to interpret chat speak or any other unconventional way of typing always requires a certain amount of cleverness and esoteric knowledge. The fact that their are people who speak english as a second language doesn't warrant a stop to someone writing in CS. If they speak english then they have the fundamental knowledge to understand the basis of CS or any other derivative of english, as long as they put in the small effort required from anyone. Also she wasn't complaining about the english language already being confusing you just fabricated that up, assuming she is overwhelmed by it.

If you speak fluent english, then you could translate it as well as anyone else who speaks fluent english. How do we know what it means? If the context and sound of the word is generally pointing to a particular word we can tell what it means, easily. If you speak english well enough you're likely going to do the same. For example, "dis den" is an accent in some english communities. Many novelist incorporate accents into their works, and translators don't exclude or find trouble in translating the equivalent phonetics of it to their own language. Most foriegners that know something about U.S culture know that southerners have a distinct difference in pronunciation of words than northerners. When reading english literature do you think they have trouble if the author chooses to write the dialogue of a southerner in a souther accent, or a urban dweller's dialogue in some urban accent? I find that hard to imagine, and believe your view of how people learn language is simplistic. Also it doesn't take much wit if you speak fluent english to understand from the context what words tlk and lik are going for. confused

It may not be clever to someone who's seen it a million times, but seeing it for the first time will usually spark a bulb like, "Oh! I see, clever." But you're right, even then not everyone will agree that it's clever, it's more of a subjective notion.

I already told you that for me it depends on the merits of their thoughts. Not whether they choose to type unconventionally.

i totally know what you mean. i hate all the short-handed texting and stuff. i don't even think spelling words shorter and incorrectly makes the process to take less time. i watched Jimmy Kemmel Live and Justin Long was starring as a guest. he was talking about the process of texting and how everything teens(generally) rush things. although different habits are hard to break, grammatical errors are something easy to fix. now that i think about it, i know i said i "hate" poor literacy, but i guess i don't really mind. i still strongly believe that people should write more well though.

Yes, they have the right to type however the hell they want. and we have the right to not give them the time of day. Why should we take have to learn a whole new version of spelling because someone wants to be lazy, or trendy, or cute. I am having problems with kids not learning the correct way to write in the first place.

I never said you couldn't ignore them, or refuse to learn a "new version of spelling." (as if it's that hard) go right ahead I don't care. It's not as if I'm arguing for you to not do that.
If someone knows how to write than they were taught it in school, that's where you generally learn to write. Therefore they do know how to write correctly they simply choose not to sometimes. If you have a problem with kids not learning how to write correctly then what you have a problem with is teachers failing to teach students how to write correctly, or students suffering from dyslexia or other diseases which impair their ability to learn how to write correctly. This is a completely different subject from kids who've already learned how to write correctly yet choose to type differently. Unless you're trying to correlate the two, in that case you have to prove that this correlation is the cause of kids typing incorrectly. Otherwise you're simply asserting something by virtue of it's correlation which does nothing to actually proving it's the causation.

What I argued was that they don't have to type the way you say they should, you agree they have the right to type anyway they want. What's your reason for infringing on those rights? They're doing nothing to infringe on yours.

You call Aakosir selfish, but by making that judgment, you in turn show us that you aren't concerned with her feelings about the issue. Why should you be the last determining factor on what is good online etiquette?

Actually I am concerned about her feelings as I have previously made an opinion on them. I said that I see no legitimate reason for her to hate on these unconventional ways of typing and therefore I find her feelings unwarranted. If she demands others to type correctly simply for her feelings appeasement then she is selfish. She is only concerned with what she wants. Also I never claimed that I'm the "last determining factor on good online etiquette". You have every right to disregard my opinions on her selfishness.

The general etiquette rule states that when you enter a forum, you should use the writing method that the creator uses. So it is inconsiderate and disrespectful when the discussion is being held in a literate manner , and someone suddenly jumps in with chat-speak or L33T.

Where can I verify that that's the rule? How is it disrespectful and inconsiderate? So is it respectful to discriminate against someones perferred way of typing, yet disrespectful for said someone to join in on a conversation they probably found interesting? I find that your discrimination is far more disrespectful and inconsiderate than a chatspeaker joining a discriminating and inconsiderate group.

I commend anyone who disregards your shallow, discriminating, and far more inconsiderate preference.