People who type "cumming" in texts and over IM, and other such things

[Jnacos]

I've never quite understood why people insist on spelling improperly.

I usually won't speak with someone if they can't use proper grammar.

I think that most people type like that because they're too lazy to type out a complete thought.

 

[Iampringles]

Dammit, I want to learn how to teleport.

*gazes longingly into the clouds*

Just think of the possibilities...

Breakfast in Paris, lunch on Pluto, and back home in time for tea!

 

[zacaron]

I think I heard about a test for this sort of thing
take your age and subtract 10
were you dumb back then? probably
now take your current age and add ten. ten years from now you'll look back and see that ten years ago you were stupid

 

[RN7]

I think kids are just lazy shits who don't really care, and need to be beaten well to have some damn sense imbued into them.

NOTE: I am infact a teenager, and I hate children (adolesence to early adulthood) and no, I don't hate myself.

 

[Mcupobob]

It bugs me when people spell nothing with a "u" as in "nuthing".

 

[CloakedOne]

I completely agree. People are actually allowing this shit on exams now! How much longer must this purposeful idiocy continue? Especially considering the point that you made: it's longer than the actual word, therefore, not abbreviating it, and it already had a connotation to it (and a vulgar one at that). Dumbasses.

 

[BloodyThoughts]

God damn I hate that.

I mean, if they have the time to bug their mothers enough to get a $500 phone the least they can do is text in correct English. The kids are just dumb asses thinking their cool by doing this stuff, but really they're just embarrassing them selves.

 

[Abjecthdam]

weird you brought this up half of my school laughs every time someone says coming

 

[ChaoticLegion]

Look, I'd assumed that we'd established this a long time ago.

People are morons.

I don't think it would be possible for me to wholeheartedly agree with this statement any more than I already do.

With regards to the OP, I've also noticed such similar trends with IMs and it also annoys me. I've been using IMs and multiple other chat programmes for many years now and I still don't see the use of what can only be described as completely redundant alterations of the English language.

What makes it worse is that it's not just your 'average joe' that I see doing this, even at University I see my peers doing exactly the same and it seriously makes me question how people who butcher the language so disasterously and frequently can even write a coherent essay.

We could always hope that it's just one of those things that eventualy die out... however I seriously doubt this will be the case any time soon, it's just one of those things you've got to ignore whilst attempting not to get dragged into.

 

[MrFluffy-X]

dont care...

 

[Rachel317]

You know what else is really bloody annoying? When people use text speak when they're online. Now...I can understand text speak in a TEXT, because of the character limit, cost etc...
But why, oh why, do people write like that when they have a full keyboard laid out most neatly and conveniently in front of them??

It's like a punch in the face...it takes me longer to decipher it than it did them to type it!

Rant over...

But back to the original question...haha.

Hm...I think it has a lot to do with immaturity, as a few people have mentioned, but it might also have something to do with pure utter LAZINESS.

I dunno, first thing that popped to mind. Either that, or they're aliens or something. Which seems more logical, eh?

 

[Iron Mal]

I don't think there's any specific reason for it (not stupidity, not laziness, not even a dirty mind).

It's just what some people do, it has just as much reasoning and thought behind it as that habit some people have of looking at their reflection when they pass a window (in other words, absolutely none).

 

[Neonbob]

Dammit, I want to learn how to teleport.

*gazes longingly into the clouds*

Just think of the possibilities...

Breakfast in Paris, lunch on Pluto, and back home in time for tea!

Pft.
Screw that stuff.
I just wanna punch idiots and disappear before they can turn around.
That would be AMAZING.

 

[Calatar]

I see this has turned into another one of the "I'm better than other people/people are stupid" threads. Get over your superiority complexes. Choosing to spell incorrectly on purpose regardless of the economy of letters does not inherently make all kids stupid. It may not make sense to you, but people behave the way they do because humans are social creatures, and they accept and internalize the memes of those around them. Surely you don't think that everything that YOU do makes sense?
Following a trend does not make you stupid, however much those outside of the trend like to say it does. And that is what this "shorthand spelling" is: a trend.

Protip: Complaining about "kids these days" makes you sound old and whiny.

 

[The Heik]

Forgive me if this comes across as a rant, but I consider it a somewhat discussion-worthy topic.

So, I text and IM, much like a large proportion of today's youth, and one thing that I've noticed, well not so much noticed as become more annoyed at, is that quite a lot of people go out of their way to intentionally spell words wrong. I draw your attention to the example provided in the thread title: typing "cumming" rather than "coming" in texts and IM.

I do not see a valid reason why people would choose to use this spelling rather than the proper spelling. The word has more letters than the proper spelling, and, well you know... some can see it as a naughty word. Now my point here is that a lot of people, regardless of their level of intelligence, will intentionally type words wrong, and I thought we should have a discussion as to why. Is the use of proper spelling and grammar so "uncool"?

Well Escapists, what do you think?

No, it's just that those people think that deliberately miss-typing worlds is "clever". All they're doing is proving their idiocy to the rest of us

 

[DracoOfZeradaith]

I agree with this.Text and IM speak is so commonplace that I reckon many people don't even realise the spelling is wrong and think that's how words actually are spelled

This is what I'm worried about. People who use shorthand and text-speak because they don't know any better. I've heard of kids turning in research papers and homework completely written in shorthand and text-speak. And it makes me sigh. Sure, using shorthand on SMS is one thing -- like others have said, 160 characters can only go so far. But to think that there are really people out there who never understood or learned that there is a difference between "two", "to", "too", and "2", or "four", "for", and "4" makes me believe that we have somehow failed the incoming generations.

 

[Normalgamer]

It's for shits and giggles guys, the internet doesn't always have to be srs bzns.

 

[snow]

The whole texting language thing is getting out of hand.

I guess for many teenagers its "uncool" to spell like they know the alphabet.

God knows what their childrens' messages will look like......

I have a feeling it'll be morse code in text form LOL

It's funny, I see this thread 10 minutes after getting a request to join an alliance in a silly lil webgame I play to kill time

Copy and pasted!

"can i pliz join ur aliance???"

*insert Darth Vader NOO here*