i h8 txt spk. do u?

It’s not hard to notice that websites and messageboards are slowly filling with people who feel obliged to write their messages in ‘txt spk’, as if they were writing a text message in shorthand.

I mean, I can understand people who write SMS messages on their phones like that because I find them incredibly difficult to type on, and one of the reasons I still own a Nokia phone with worn plastic, crack screen, and it’s one redeeming feature – a fold-out keyboard! But last time I looked, most computers came with a full size QWERTY keyboard, and even people who hunt and peck can type full sentences reasonably speedily on them!
Of course, as I write this, I realise that the majority of people who are writing ‘txt spk’ style online, are younger than me, and this whole entry is just me realising that I am getting old. I only hope they are able to form proper English sentences when they are using traditional, more analogue forms of writing.