A friendly reminder

[Cat's Meowm]

I had the hardest time remembering what ICAM (I couldn't agree more) meant.

ICAM, UCAM, WeCAM - a holler... two-bits, four-bits, six-bits, a dollar.

Just for the youngsters here, two-bits are a quarter, in American money.
But that's going way back into childhood since I learned that chant or cheer at sports games!

[Husky15]

Seeing slang on forums makes me go nuts as well. I am what you would call a grammar freak. Sometimes my grammar may not always be correct but I try my best. Seeing slang on MSN doesn't bother me as much but I never use it myself. I'm always known as the one correcting my friend's spelling and grammar. My cousin calls me Miss Grammar Freak .

[JuniorxMyxLove]

I hate when people type u[you], y[why] and like numbers instead of words! It's not that much longer! I really don't like when people have no instead of know because then I get really confused!

[borzoimom]

thank you.. I try but lately my brain is on mush.. lol..

[Genny]

I just now saw this. I have put pics instead of pictures a lot, but from now on I won't do it anymore.

[TamanduaGirl]

Well it's one thing to say don't use slang or misspellings on purpose but many people can't help it for a number of reasons. I have problems myself sometimes worse than others. It only continues to get worse as I age due to I'm a reactive hypoglycemic and each time the blood sugar goes below a certain level it causes brain damage, well cells die, though it's not major it has an effect more so over time.

An on line friend of mine is very smart but is hated by most because his spelling is truely awful as is his puncuation. I think his grammer is okay if you can decifer the rest Personaly I don't find it that hard most of the time but it is bad. He even wrote a book before the incident that messed up his brain and hands he's still really smart but just can't type well and hasn't been able to get a good voice to text programe. and it's bad enough spell checks don't help and sometimes make it worse.

So yes it's good to be polite and write as well as you can but try not to get mad or write people off if they can't.

oh and what's the number vs words thing? You can't type 1 but one instead?

[Karen]

oh and what's the number vs words thing? You can't type 1 but one instead?

No, it's when people substitute 4 for the entirely different word "for" or 2 for the word "to" - like "I am going 2 the mall 4 my shopping trip."

[TamanduaGirl]

oh okay. That didn't occur to me at the time