I have spent a large portion of my life reading text written in English. As a result of all of that practice, I've gotten accustomed to reading English at a fairly high speed, without even thinking about it. When I'm reading something written well, I'm thinking about the author's ideas, not the letters and words they used to convey those ideas.
Wen eye M reeding sumthin writen by sum1 who duzznt rite norml English, I shift in2 low geer. I slo down. I get distrakted by the prezentashun & I dont C the kontent NEmore.
Reading that crap takes work. So unless I have a very good reason to put in the work, I'm not going to. Especially on a site like Quora, where I can easily find something written in a familiar dialect.
Also, it has been my experience that people who write that way also tend to have great trouble expressing themselves. So even on the rare occasion that I slog through the borken speling & abbrevs, I usually just end up with broken sentences that take even more work to decode. Historically, the return on such investment has been abysmally low. So, I have come to look at SMS-style abbreviations as the internet equivalent of crayons.
Cute, but not what I'm looking for.
Read other answers by Nate Waddoups on Quora:
- Which words in English are generally spelled incorrectly at the time of writing?
- Why do so many writers use words that might be difficult for some readers?
- Why does English often use sentences that contain double negatives, like "I didn't do nothing"?
from Quora http://ift.tt/2c1ccvn
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