Does the term "wat" offend you?

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how can you all sleep at night? lol
great Tomasuomi btw. the friendliest internet-speak around

I hope my Tomasu-speak is acceptable.

Better than mine.

One letter short of Twat

u guys should c how some kidz spel werds like day sound 2b weird & difrent. i typed like dat sum years ago becuz i wanted 2 have my own style sense i new i couldn't spel good even when i tried. it made things harder 4 others 2 read thou & caused sum negative atention. i was also close to a girl then who typed like dat. she's part of the rezone why i did it except her typin was more hyper. she had sever ADHD & dyslexia. OMG OMG i now u guys r totaly havin problems readin dis but it's not dat dificult 4 me 2 read. i still ocisonaly type werds wrong like dis when i'm not tryin 2. BTW spelling What like Wat might of been caused by South Park. I spell Cool like Kewl because it's how Cartman spelt it in an ep of SP

lol

The words wat or wot don't offend me when they are used on purpose by someone who normally speaks with proper grammar. I use the word wat, wut, and lolwut a lot on the internet. It's just an internet nerd thing.

No, all words at one time drew pretentious sneers. I like to see people have fun with the language.

Another term that drives me crazy is, thanx.

That one annoys me, actually. So do shortenings of the word 'probably'.

I taught that to one to my former supervisor; we tex a lot. I also taught him kewl & some people on forums I've been to picked up on it as well. You can blame me if you want but you must blame South Park as well because i learned kewl from that

agreed, it's a natural evolution.

and i think it's fun to use new words. i work a government job that requires a great deal of formality in written communication, so it's fun to mess around with language in my off time. my 16-year-old daughter is not impressed by this tendency. also, my phone can only send 140 characters per text, so any unnecessary letters need to be dropped.

i love that abbreviated and slang speech isn't that common on these forums though. instead of descending to something that is easy, we maintain proper english for the most part (says the person who refuses to capitalize. oh, never mind).