Maybe it's just me showing my ever-increasing age, but I find myself increasingly irritated by people who write me shit like this guy did today on MySpace:
really u look very beautiful' and u look star'
so that i want to say somthing to u'
if you needed me to wait for you for five hundred yearsto see u, I would. If you needed me to kill myself to see you, I would. If you needed me to go to hell I would. i'm italian boy hope to see u and talk with u plz give me your heart ' give me your love really i hop. if u want me u can found me at *********@yahoo or msn
plz add me at your yahoo or msn really i like u
Aside from the serious chemical imbalance implied by poetry like "If you needed me to kill myself to see you, I would," there is the "u" and the "plz" and the fact that the crap just really doesn't make any sense. And it angers me. Because at my age, when I read something like, "you look star", I have to sit for a moment and wonder if it's not yet another new slang term I don't know the meaning of. After all, I still remember when fat was just a dress size, dope was something you smoked, and I actually knew people who said things like 'rad' and 'grody to the max'. Yes, I did. But at least we could spell. You is a three letter word. Three letters. It bugs me when people can't be bothered to use them all. And all the rest of this...phonetic typing??? What is the deal? What has caused this total annihilation of the English language? It had to be Hooked on Phonics.
A sad state of affairs. I think that's enough mindless bitching for one night. I still have an awful cold, in case you couldn't tell by my equally unpleasant mood. :o) Oh, well. I'm going to bed.
