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Scott in Houston wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote: Unfortunately, I type so slow, I have two options.

Slowly... you type slowly. haha

Irregardless... .... That is my excuse and I am sticking with it.

WildBill wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:Some of the words we are talking about here get used quite a bit in texting. I assumed it was to save time when trying to send a quick text. I absolutely cannot text while driving. I would wreck! Not might wreck, would wreck... .

So if I am required to respond to a text that cannot wait due to a work I dude I am being asked about, I have to respond at a traffic light.

In cases like this I take many liberties with spelling and even grammar. You becomes u. Yes becomes k. There are others but I think texting has been responsible for some of the word usage situations mentioned on this thread. For instance I might send a text saying, wud u chk mail...

I can see that to save time and keystrokes, but I guess I am so anal that I can't do that.

Unfortunately, I type so slow, I have two options. Ignore the text until I get to where I am going and risk having someone freeze up while waiting a response or text like a fool when I get to a traffic light. Most of my texts have to do with business. Not responding in a rarely prompt fashion can cost me money or worse still, a good customer.

I have actually had times when three or four different people are text bombing me with business related questions at the same time. More than once I have considered throwing my phone out the window, driving to Florida and hiding on a warm beach. But I cannot figure out how to get them to send me a paycheck without telling them where I am. Owning a business beats heck out of working for "the man" but it is very stressful at times.

WildBill wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:

WildBill wrote:

Abraham wrote:Using the letter Z instead of S at the end of words.

(jr. high girls get a pass, but grown men, no)

WildBillz Etiquette Guide Agreez!

How do we feel about "wad up" ? There is a proper usage for z in place of s. "Getz Minze" needs a z in it for proper identification of welfare recipients level of intelligence.

Never heard of that one. Sounds nasty to me. Like hacking a loogie.

Bawahahahaha... Never thought about it before but it could have that meaning. Isn't that usually referred to as hawking one up?

Irregardless... maybe websters dictionary Getz changed to compensate for new language patterns. Fifty years from now, who knows what will be acceptable. If we could wake up an educated man from the 1800's and ask him his opinion on the present usage of grammar, he would probably ask us to kill him again.

Some of the words we are talking about here get used quite a bit in texting. I assumed it was to save time when trying to send a quick text. I absolutely cannot text while driving. I would wreck! Not might wreck, would wreck... .

So if I am required to respond to a text that cannot wait due to a work I dude I am being asked about, I have to respond at a traffic light.

In cases like this I take many liberties with spelling and even grammar. You becomes u. Yes becomes k. There are others but I think texting has been responsible for some of the word usage situations mentioned on this thread. For instance I might send a text saying, wud u chk mail...

WildBill wrote:

Abraham wrote:Using the letter Z instead of S at the end of words.

(jr. high girls get a pass, but grown men, no)

WildBillz Etiquette Guide Agreez!

How do we feel about "wad up" ? There is a proper usage for z in place of s. "Getz Minze" needs a z in it for proper identification of welfare recipients level of intelligence.

Same place as "my bad" and "just sayin".

WildBill wrote:There is a reason we call them "Mother's Day" and "Father's Day"

To Mom and Dad

Wow... You are really milking this mom thing. Jesus wildbill, lighten up... We were 13 or 14... Not grown men.

WildBill wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:

WildBill wrote:

Scott in Houston wrote:You're welcome!
It isn't such a pet peeve when non professional writers or speakers do it.
Even My Old Lady does it now and then.

Your Welcome.

Funnyy thing... when we were kids, we would refer to our moms or dads as "the old lady" or "the old man". Then we discovered girls.... and well... "mom" became "mom" again. Dads remained "the old man".

When I was growing up I never referred to my dad as "the old man" or my mom as "the old lady". When I was married I never referred to my wife as "my old lady". I thought it was rude and low class.

Today, I sometimes refer to myself as the "old man".

Yeah... I think the group I hung with may have been a bit less pretentious than that. It was never meant as degrading. I suppose it just depends on how uptight the group was.

I think I may be younger than you as well. Many of the the regulars on this forum are older than my mom.

WildBill wrote:

Scott in Houston wrote:You're welcome!
It isn't such a pet peeve when non professional writers or speakers do it.
Even My Old Lady does it now and then.

Your Welcome.

Funnyy thing... when we were kids, we would refer to our moms or dads as "the old lady" or "the old man". Then we discovered girls.... and well... "mom" became "mom" again. Dads remained "the old man".