A-ZeD:

Its truly annoying when adults resort to writing "text speak" on a public forum. I can tolerate bad grammar but "text speak" just makes me write you off as un intelligent and not worth responding to.

Sunymoore: Quite tru cox i rembrd whn i was wrtng englsh dis yea, instd of schools i wrote .skulls. Its truli quite unfotunt. But as frm nw, i will tri as much as i can to wrte a complt wrd even in a forum o chat rum.

Koolking: It irritates me, in fact, I don't even waste my resource (time) reading short-worded comments and documents. What stops people from typing words the way they were taught, even when they have enough space to accommodate what they have to pass across to their listeners/readers. Personally, I see people who form such habits as unintelligent, docile and boring. It has nothing to do with Smart phones.

A-ZeD:
You don't blame smart phones for the laziness of humans. No smart phone/phone comes with "text speak".

afam4eva: God punish spoken English. How about spoken Igbo and Yoruba. Why's no one worried about them?

messiah: "you're" becomes "your"

SamConquer: MTCHEWWWW MU.MU TOPIC AGAIN

Sunymoore: Quite tru cox i rembrd whn i was wrtng englsh dis yea, instd of schools i wrote .skulls. Its truli quite unfotunt. But as frm nw, i will tri as much as i can to wrte a complt wrd even in a forum o chat rum.

*Kails*:
This is kind of like the question about gadgets making us "anti-social".

Again, I beg to differ. If you are someone who values English and feel the need to write and/or speak in proper English, you will do so regardless.

But when online most of us (myself included) tend to mix our colloquial slangs and internet terminology (LOL, LWKMD, #blahblah, YOLO; etc) into our posts. It's normal but there is a time and place for everything.

Sunymoore: Quite tru cox i rembrd whn i was wrtng englsh dis yea, instd of schools i wrote .skulls. Its truli quite unfotunt. But as frm nw, i will tri as much as i can to wrte a complt wrd even in a forum o chat rum.

rman: Yes, it is having a negative effect on written English.

I have read officials mails with these abbrevtions: urs, plz, u .

I just told my mananger that we need to change our recruitment test from multiple choice questions only. How did we end up with lazy writters?

Even a mail of just two pragraphs and six sentences will be abbrevated by these peeps.

I will overlook it in chats but in official documents, I simply tag the individual lazy.

Shakara123: In our present society, there seem to be an increased awareness and crave for smart phones by all (infants, youths and adults alike).

These devices no doubt help in easy and fast communication but have we considered the effects they have on our written and spoken communication skills, especially our students’?

Today, words are abbreviated in chat platforms to the extent that most students find it difficult to spell some words correctly, place punctuations appropriately, or even differentiate tenses. Examples; I don’t know becomes ‘dunno’, okay becomes ‘kk’, what is going on becomes ‘sup’, don’t becomes ‘dnt’, bother becomes ‘boda’ and the list goes on and on. It is at such moments that I praise some universities that ban the use of smart phones on campus.

Secondly, have we observed that some persons who are able to use these abbreviated words so much and type so fast with their phones during chats find it quite difficult to speak as effectively when physically present before their chat mates?

These are only my thoughts anyway. I will appreciate your comments as well.

Compliments.

Sunymoore: Quite tru cox i rembrd whn i was wrtng englsh dis yea, instd of schools i wrote .skulls. Its truli quite unfotunt. But as frm nw, i will tri as much as i can to wrte a complt wrd even in a forum o chat rum.

Clefcentfelix: it depends on the individual

IYA NGBALI: I had carry over in all my courses just because of it. Goodluck Jonathan should pls do something about it