Net lingo is destroying me

Help me. Since i've started chatting on msn and stuff my writing has gotten really bad. I can never remember how to spell things properly any more and my writing is degressing (is that even a word, sigh). Oops I mean its regressing. Ahh!!! And my poetry has got simpler and worse. Any one got any suggestions? (other than stop chatting on msn)

When my little sis and I chat on msn I demand she writes everything in plain english. If she doesn't I ignore her.

It works. Ask your friends to do that with you... hell do 'em a favour and do it for them too.

I think some of my friends wouldn't understand me if I wrote to them in real english. Some are kind of not well educated, and I get told off for using big words. Hmm but I shall try.

Some people have sneered at me for using proper english while chatting. Others seem to have caught the disease.

Either way, I still do it.

Just practice spelling the words sometimes, or take Friends~ idea and type the grammatically correct way on msn. lol, you don't have to, cuz it can get annoying, but it would help.:)

-Rach

Your friends are the idiots. Dont feel bad for using big words or spelling them correctly.

HELLO?!?!? Anyone can learn net lingo, and they may think that normal (or even advanced English) is extraneous, but they dont know what EXTRANEOUS means, so who's farther behind?

Just do what makes you happy and what makes you a better writer. You have your own idiomatic style, and just because you know of words that are longer than your friends attention spans doesnt make YOU the one with the issue.

Sorry, I dont condone stupidity. This is what is wrong with youth today. "Yo dog, what up? lets hook up and do some hash @ 4 20. piece." Is that going to get anyone anywhere in the long run besides on Jerry Springer reruns and a job at Burger King. I dont even know if that person could say, "want fries with that?" or not. Damn.

Hey. want 2 b my frend? I luv u 2! Typing lyke this iz aktually kinda hard. BTW, lol! BRBASAP g2g! IDK? R u BoReD? Im soooooo bord. Lets b bord 2gether yo! R u w/ any1 rite now? Wat's ur reel name? kan we make out? Is this reely hard 2 reed? I no a guy w/ last name reed! Teh quik, brown, fox, jumped ovr teh lazee dog.

If you can decipher all of that, good for you! You have no life... jk

~Ciao Lipton

ok i have absolutley no idea what you just said...

Hey Bret thats a great idea!

It works, tried and tested. *grins*

By the way, I have no problem with the use of brb, btw and bits like that... that's abbreviation after all.

thanx 4 da info. rofl. soz.
OK over that now.
Thanks for your advice. I have decided to be the loser God intended me to be and use real English. I'm starting to write poems for myself too, not ones my friends would understand. I've also found a plus side to talking well on msn, and that is that my friends ask me word meanings all the time, so I'm turning into a walking dictionary.

Great to hear, 'Cog. keep it up.

Bert

Ok I know this is the wrong place but I wrote a poem 'nightswimming' and I really need opinions. My friend said the second half was crap and another just looked dumbly and said 'huh, i dun get it'