I know that I am a rotten at spelling. I was just wondering if it has become common practice to not spell words correctly on purpose? I know that the internet has changed alot of things but is this one? I also know that we have become so engrossed with time( or the lack of it) that we take alot of short cuts. I was reading several old letters that were written back in the 1700- mid 1800's It seems as though we have lost much of our eloquence. Most of what I see today pales next to what was written as late as 40 years ago. Just a thought. If you find any errors in here please let me know as I am trying to improve my proof reading skills....laugh out loud ( lol )

"Evil will always triumph over good because good is stupid..." Dark Hekmet ...Spaceballs the Movie

I've noticed alot of people that send non-business SMS, IM, Posts, or Emails, tend to butcher English and/or take many shortcuts with words. Not that I'm perfect either, but I try to my best to type in complete sentences and catch spelling. Maybe it's the new generation......

It does seem that way... I have wondered if this would change the business vernacular in the future. Who knows? Maybe its just taking an easy way out..lol

"Evil will always triumph over good because good is stupid..." Dark Hekmet ...Spaceballs the Movie

The day that I have an interview for a job and the interviewer says "LOL" or anything faintly similar, is the day i go back to the kitchen ....

thats funny.... yet as a college grad I have yet to run into the situation of " If you can tell me who the most prolific composer of the Baroque musical period was you can have the job?" I cant wait for that.

"Evil will always triumph over good because good is stupid..." Dark Hekmet ...Spaceballs the Movie

Well generally there is an expectation to sound a little educated when applying for a job, or to use proper grammer in your resume.

The grammer shortcuts are of course seen in communications across the Internet, but even more so in the business work force during e-mail communications and IM's. We use communicator quite a bit here on the job, and if I'm preocuppied with a server outage and coworkers are sending me messages via communicator asking general questions. ... it's just easier/quicker throwing in a thx over a thank you or np no problem. However, it is funny seeing the managers with the Masters and PHD's using LOL in their communications. I would agree, its a generation thing... considering we're so embedded in the electronic age... we're bound to get caught up in trends as such.

Then again, is it any different from the day-to-day slang most of us apply just speaking? I'm originally from NJ, and my wife picks on me because I say "you guys", ya's, and you's. (eg. What are ya's doin?). She's from the South and says y'all, fixins, etc..etc..

I understand the effective use of time...my god I need all that I can get but do you feel that this type of " time management " is now pervasive in society as well. I feel sometimes that we are getting away from respect, manners, and general civility. Is life going so fast that we feel that we dont need those things? Just a question... Im feeling a little philisophical today...

"Evil will always triumph over good because good is stupid..." Dark Hekmet ...Spaceballs the Movie

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I try to keep my posts readable. It doesn't really bother me to see other people spelling errors, but more often than not I have the uncontrollable impulse to go back and corect my own.

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I see where you're going with this, and I guess I have mixed feelings. From the business side, I don't really see a disrespect or a question of one's manners, or even intelect. Now if I was sending a letter to Grandma and Grandpa...ummm... I probably wouldn't follow up a sentence with a ROTFLMFAO.

Now if I walk into a super market and the cashier says to me "NP" rather than a thank you... yeah, that would be out of line. I guess I believe there are times when it's acceptable and not.

it's sort of.....internet slang or if that what you could call it kind of stupid but hell i don't have room to talk, i do it all the time