This is a tough question considering most kids will answer pro-misuse. What I am referring to is "sumbody" vs "somebody" and "skool" vs "school" and other ghetto slang people (kids) use today online. If you train yourself to type like this, how can you be expected to write properly when you are an adult. I heard some teachers will fail a student for using this in class, but I am beginning to get annoyed seeing it here in Yahoo Answers. Am I too thin-skinned? I am also a bit concerned about how poorly some people write. I'm no English scholar, but some questions are written VERY poorly.
So, the question is: Should Yahoo delete or filter this kind of content? (slang-intentional misspellings)
Absolutely. I don't know if I'm just prematurely cranky, a born curmudgeon, or just value being able to read a post without resorting to cryptanalysis, but I can't stand the little murders committed on our language ten-thousand times a day on Yahoo Answers.
This so called SMS language may have a place in the lives of people sending text messages to one another over cellular phones, but anyone with a full QWERTY keyboard in front of them should use it.
I don't mind the obvious typo or the posts made by clearly dyslexic people, but the indecipherable gibberish posted by most of the users on these forums is shameful.
I'm assuming that most of these offenders are still in school. I have been given the excuse that their young minds are so hungry for information that they simply don't have the time to use complete words, proper grammar, or bother to check their spelling as they type.
I cry foul! There is no excuse. The only way for an interaction between two humans to remain successful is if clear communication exists between the parties involved. When people don't understand each other, they start to throw punches and eventually the guns come out.
That may be an exteme example, but Yahoo Answers is nothing, if not a microcosm of a society which values the free exchange of information.
If we don't understand each other there will be flames, sarcasm, and eventually, a break down of the system.
This would hardly be the first time that poor communication doomed an otherwise good idea to an early grave.
What I'm saying, kids, is that you should learn to use the language. It's the most important tool you have and it deserves more respect than it is shown around here.
Lack of an education is no excuse. Everyone in this country is entitled to a free ride through school until twelfth grade. Even the worst school system in the most depressed region of the poorest state will teach a person how to form a sentence and put forward their ideas. It's not the lack of education that is the problem. It's the lack of initiative on the recipients of said education.