But you are still missing the point.

I expend the time to do this here at PM because I spend a lot of time here and I have seen the judgemental way such trivia is commonly disdained. In the vast majority of cases, if I posted my raw output without any correction, most people would understand perfectly what I was saying, despite the omitted, doubled, misspelt, misplaced and jumbled words. The human speech processing abilities are extraordinary in the way they will allow the reader to extrapolate meaning from quite extraordinarily "bad" communications. To wit, that most people can easily read all but the most extreme of sms txt msgs, is testimony.

If you have had occasion to see the content of a youthful bulletin board, as I did recently when helping my niece, you would probably be horrified at the extent to which txting has become lingua-franca for those of a certain age group. Just as my father was at my eldest sister's (a child of the late '60s) use of the slang of her day. Or as she was in turn, when her daughter was taught a style of handwriting (I think called italic cursive) in her primary school--she (the daughter) is now 30+ and has the most exquisite handwriting.

It's called "resistance to change", or "looking back with rose tinted glasses". For the most part, the current generation of Internet connected kids will see the world, and accept forms of communication, in an entirely different way to my generation and yours (probably). Just as we do from that of our parents.

Now go off and look up the word aphasia. And before you dismiss it as something that only affects a few people, read down a ways and realise that over 1 million Americans, and millions more around this Internet connected globe are sufferers to some lesser or greater extent. And that is just those who are diagnosed as such and therefore know. Many, many more think, because it is what they are told, that they are just dumb.

And consider this. The most debilitating, insipid and insidious of prejudices are no longer the "big four"--colour, race, sex and religion--as practiced by governments, corporations or loud-mouthed bigots and the 'political' groups to which they belong, nor the extremist organisations.

The prejudices that affect the most people, and have the greatest effect on their daily lives, are the myriad small, insignificant, unthinking, pervasive prejudices that are knowingly or unwittingly perpetuated through millions of mildly discriminatory acts by millions of otherwise perfectly nice, well-rounded individuals every day.

Whenever we make a judgement about someone on the basis of 'that is typical of "them"', where 'them' is some non-specific group of people to which you have ascribed the individual, without knowing their individual circumstances,--and we all do this to some greater or lesser degree, including me--we are acting upon, and perpetuating prejudice. And whilst each act by each individual is small; collectively, they can have a significant affect upon the recipients of our lack of thought and care.