*howls with laughter*

[brightrosefox]

http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20030121.html

I've seen worse church signs. But this really does reflect the modernization of everything. Next thing you know, someone will rewrite the Bible to include email and the world wide web.

Oh, on a similar note... every time I get IM'ed on Yahoo Messenger by a lonely single guy wanting to score and have hot cybersex (which is ninety-eight percent of all the people who IM me), they have horrible grammar. Whatever happened to actually spelling out "you" and "are" and "ate" and other such simple words? Or using puncuation, like "I've" instead of "Iv"? And then there are such lovely phrases as "hey cud u guys help me w/ a problem thx evr so much?" and "hi how r u 2day? i think ur really hot r u single? Id luv 2 go out w/ u."

Are people truly becoming so illiterate?

Sorry. It's the grammar freak in me. I just get all snarly when I see that. The majority of these people are older than me. I've actually met young teenagers who have better grammar than the thirty-year-olds.

Comments

theres someone else out there...

[vanillabeani.livejournal.com]

who is irritated by the same bad manners and grammar...very annoying. i get alot of the lame salutations since i am near an army post (my husband is in the army). many men ignore the married portion of my profile and solicit conversation anyway...which would be great if it was really for conversation...of the intelligent sort. its really disappointing, because when my husband is away, some stimulating chatter would be nice...but it seems it must be sexual in nature or it isnt wanted.

[fyremoon.livejournal.com]

I think illiteracy is a cultural thing. Perhaps the Internet reaches poorly educated people more these days, or that they are used to using lamerspeak as a communication medium between their friends.

I know that with the advent of SMS with 160 characters per message, young people are use lamerspeak to get their messages across quicker and use less space to do so.

My first exposure on IRC to someone using lamerspeak was a girl who was trying to netsex me, she asked why I was quiet, and I told her I couldn't understand her gibberish!

[omertaortygia.livejournal.com]

sorry snooping in your journal and just had to comment :) The church near me has a sign that says "IT support here ...in the bible"..I mean what the?

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

LOL!! Now that's just silly. I mean, really. The damn book was written thousands of years ago. Sigh.

Hi, by the way. :)

[omertaortygia.livejournal.com]

Hi :)