What is it about texting or online chatting...

[King of the Sandbox]

texting it makes a lot of sense.. it's a lot easier to say:

ru dere

then

"Hey brendan, are you there man?"

online chatting, it's just the proliferation of shorthands, like lol, wtf etc (not etc though)

I don't have a problem with it as long as it seems appropriate to the conversation

Laziness, and a whole generation of kids being brought up by parents that are too busy trying to be kids themselves, that a whole lot of importance isn't put on things like grammar and the importance of language.

It's not just our language that's being murdered, it's our future. I see kids left to their own devices in public so much, I'm like 90% sure my kids will be able to take over the world, as I plan to educate them properly, instead of letting them be free-range retards.

that's ridiculous. English has been evolving almost non-stop for the past 700 years or so.. The future of the language has acronyms. That's just how it works. You can sit there like an 80 year old guy complaining about kids today and their hip hops and scotchmabops, but it just seems silly. 100 years ago there was some old guy saying the EXACT same thing about the way you speak.

Ok, Hipster McYoung-guy, riddle me this then;

The reason short hand was invented was to save on ink, when it was expensive and hard to come by for the working class. What excuse do you have other than "I wanna save time." (which equals laziness, if it is not IMPERATIVE that you do so immediately, imo.)