"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote

> "Litttle Malice" > wrote

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>> No, they honestly did come about for a reason; long before I
>> started doing Usenet, mind you. Anyway, what I find far more
>> irritating is the "how r u" kind of crap. My nieces (all late
>> teens, early 20's) send text messages like that. Argh...
>
> Yeah...kids have somehow gotten the idea that there are situations were
> you don't have to write intelligibly. Bullshit.

I read somewhere that they are submitting job applications, etc.
with that annoying crap. It was inevitable. People started doing that
at work, a couple decades ago, that How R U crap. Not with me
they didn't. It was annoying then, now it's just old.

nancy