This is a rant.
It is long-ish.
If you'd rather just skip to the bottom with the recap, go ahead.
But maybe you've got enough time to read.
So, recently I was browsing through the Kupipages and I came across a page that asked the general public to state,
blatantly and honestly, if the public liked her or not. I won't say who or where, but it's there. Look for yourselves
you lazy bumpkins.
Anyway, I was reading through the comments (this person didn't seem well-liked...) and I came across one that dealt
with swearing.
Now, right then and there I had to stop. I, myself, cuss like a sailor. No, I don't type out swears often (can't be
bothered to) but in my day to day life, I swear, yet no one has ever slapped me on the wrist and told me not to.
But that's not what bothered me. What really got me was that the person who made the comment couldn't even write out
the whole damn words in the sentence. It was botched and butchered letters strung together in haphazard words that
don't make sense at first glance. For someone like me who speed-reads, it's a pain. "u" and "ur" sound, in my head,
exactly as they are spelled, and I'm sorry, but I'd rather read a slew of swears than struggle through a hoard of
"ur's" and "plz's."
That is one reason among many why I am not so active on Kupika anymore. I'd like to be able to meet someone capable of
typing out complete words on a regular basis, but I've found maybe one or two people who actually do.
I'm not criticizing those with bad spelling or a condition that would cause them to not be able to type perfectly all
the time; I don't even do that. But at least a little effort would be nice (punctuation would be a blessing)
And so I pose this question to you:
Which do you find more intolerable? Chatspeak or swearing?
I'm not expecting any replies, but I'm curious.
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