Chatspeak drives me nuts when I see it on a messageboard forum and I'm in sync with Kaethel and Pam on it being used in chat channels.
Typos are a different thing, I think - those don't bother me at all. And I'll use various abbreviations at times. But wholesale chatspeak just fogs my brain.
Course, just recently, when I actually had to text a message to someone, I realised what a dashed awkward, time-consuming, fiddly thing it is - and began to be a little more understanding of why chatspeak developed in the first place! I cannot believe that millions of kids up and down the world do this for fun all day!
So, I guess it's tolerable in its original setting of mobile phones. But it irks me when I see it too much elsewhere.
LabRat
