2NITE??? Ugh!
2NITE??? Ugh!
pomegranate / 3863 posts
I feel like writing 2NITE is not marketing well to their target audience!
clementine / 797 posts
"Text speak" drives me bonkers. I see more and more of the kids I work with thinking that this sort of thing is acceptable in writing reports and such. Eek!
bananas / 9118 posts
I wouldn't buy from anyone that does that!
My adult students get points docked for text speak, it drives me nuts!
@FLnative12: amen, love that cat!
hostess / papaya / 10540 posts
Yes! I deleted that email so fast because of it, I couldn't stare at it lol.
@FLnative12: Grumpy cat nailed it!
cherry / 178 posts
Yes it does!!! And so do "tonite" and "rite" (instead of right). Ugh.
pomelo / 5469 posts
I hate all of these, but none more so than when I see people spell "gawjus" arghhhh!!
pineapple / 12526 posts
Really bothers me. Seems like a good way to get me NOT to shop there.
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
@petunia354: exactly, maybe if they were Abercrombie and Fitch or something similar but Loft? Shameful!
watermelon / 14467 posts
Ugh, I HATE text speak! I'll use lol, but seriously, it's not that hard to spend an extra second spelling out the word correctly.
pomegranate / 3604 posts
@illumina: it literally look me 2 full minutes to figure out what the hell that word was. WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THAT?!!!?
pomelo / 5469 posts
@sera_87: It's becoming increasingly common. I don't know if people genuinely don't know the correct spelling or it's some kind of cool speak!
pineapple / 12802 posts
@evansjamie: I hear ya. Honestly, abbreviations in general bother me... It doesn't take me much longer to type out husband than it does DH.
cantaloupe / 6800 posts
@illumina: I have seen that so much! It's not that they don't know how to spell it, they're saying it when they want to drag the word out
"Wow Rebecca, that dress is gorgeous!"
vs
"Daaaamn Rebecca, that dress is gaawww-jusss!"
or
"That dress is gawjus dahling, gawjus".
annnnd now that I've just broken that down I feel about as intelligent as those who actually use it ha!
coconut / 8861 posts
haha, yes! I also have a huge pet peeve of work colleagues using emoticons during business conversations on Lync. They're usually 10 years older than me too.
pomelo / 5469 posts
@MrsTiz: I thought it was just a British thing... seems like it's worse than I thought if you guys see it too!
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