A CT thread for those that aren't Critical Thinkers

[Laharl]

I have a question to pose to people that use any form of alternate spellings on common words, such as abbreviating the words "you" and "are" as "u" and "r" respectively, or for some reason, add the letter z to the end of everything or use multiple punctuation marks at the end of a particular sentence. (hey u guyz whatz up??)

Why do you do it?

Is the nanoseconds you save knocking out a whole whopping two letters from the word "you" worth appearing like a complete and total moron to the rest of the internet? If so, why? What in the hell is the appeal of the letter z? Do you really think that adding extra unnecessary punctuation marks somehow gets the point across better or... geez, I don't even know why you would want to use more than one question mark or exclamation point at the end of a sentence to even guess at your motives.

I don't understand the phenomenon of internet speech. I don't get the appeal of "lol" when it's just as easy to type "haha" which is an actual laugh pattern. Some of the common acronyms, I can understand, like "imo" or "iirc" or pretty much any of the ones that stand for something a person might actually say. (Who says "I'm rolling on the floor laughing!" anyways? No one would actually ever say what "rofl" stands for in normal speech.) I plain do NOT understand why people insist on using ridiculous spelling of words (u r such a tewl, lololol). If it's used as sarcasm poking fun at people who actually type that way, then I get it. Other than that, it's just behind me.