How Old Are You?

It's bad enough when the kids do it. And I understand why it gets done, it's hard to type on a touchscreen pad, and if that's how you do your emails this will happen, but emails are not texting.

So plz dnt email me in txt language cuz it bthrs me and I wudnt do it to u.

Then again, I wouldn't text you in text language either, but I understand when people do it. Because so many people are emailing from their phones the lines have been blurred, but email communication is not the same as text communication, and should not be treated the same. Emails are not meant to be a hurried back and forth conversation  I get it, text are quick on the fly easy communication, I don't like it, but I get it.

However most of the reasons for texting and emailing bad spelling don't hold water.

 If it's that important and hurried, pick up the phone.  If you are in traffic or driving, put down the phone and wait. Just because you got the text, does not mean it needs to be answered that moment, in fact, often a few minutes of reflection makes for a better or measured response.

On a separate but related note, it makes me sad that so many children have access to email, and the potential to hone their writing skills in a non classroom setting, and waste it by writing their emails (some of them long) in text language, which isn't even a language at all, but laziness.

Come on people, I've been gone for awhile, did you think my first post back WOULDN'T be a rant???