Gay Texting: Don’t Be so Chintzy with Your Vowels

Is it right to text as if every letter costs a dollar?

“K.”  “cu L8r.”  “Ur2much.”

Are those examples of new texting vocabulary or simply The New Laziness?  I can’t decide. On the one hand, it is shorthand. On the other hand,  I want to show you the back of my hand when I get texts like that.

Of course, I do it too, shamefully,  but I’m not going to let a little hypocrisy get in the way of a good blog post.  I really do get it – – sometimes you’re just in such a hurry it doesn’t make sense to spell out a word when you can type out a shorter version of it. Texting isn’t just a new vocabulary– in some ways, it’s a new language. A beaten-up type of language.

Take the humble word, ‘okay’. Texters spell it with the letters OK.  But the true aficionados have shortened even those two letters to one: K. But even that has morphed into two letters: KK. Now, why would you go from the word okay to the letters OK to one letter, K, and then to 2 letters –KK?

Simple. Texting is becoming a new language. Or more to the point, a bastardized language with its own rules and preferences. But back to acting as if every vowel cost you a dollar. Does it hurt you in the dating game? I think like anything else it depends on a lot of things: how old you are, how old your intended is, and how you want to come across. For the most part, I think an over-reliance on shortened words, especially in the beginning stages of courtship, is not a good thing. When the words you type and the letters you use to make up those words, are the only thing that you’re being judged on (and YOU ARE)  then the argument goes for spelling things out.

Even if it’s not as much fun. Ifugt mydrft.

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