Nancy Young wrote:

> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote
>
> > "Litttle Malice" > wrote
>
> <snip>
>
> >> 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.


Such sloppiness gets on my nerves even on Usenet, especially the no -
punctuation and no - capitalization dealie...I mean at least make an
*attempt* fer cryin' out loud.

[I use a lot of the Usenet acronyms but those are fairly well - known and
they save a bit of time...]

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Best
Greg