So then what about punctuation and capitalization in texts? I know people who seem to forget they ever went to school when texting. And then here I come, the texting Grammar Police. Note my sentences start with a capital letter and end with some punctuation mark. May be overkill, and may be me showing my age, but my 7th grade English teacher, Miss Hazel Brown, (the original spinster schoolmarm, bless her iron-clad heart), would be proud of all those A's she gave me. I earned them. I also learned, and still try as hard as I can to remember what she taught me.
It's only autocorrect that makes me sound like the Village Idiot. LOL!
Dave
Oh good golly, I can do it right, but so often my fingers are keeping pace with brain speak and not backing up to cap the first letter of a sentence. For formal communications, I'm on it. Otherwise, eh.. if my meaning is clear, I'm not going back to fix. I don't spellcheck, either, except, again, formal comm.
Many times I'm not looking at the screen as fingers do their magic because a lot of my thinking is best done looking at blank wall or some unremarkable object near me. not sure why that is, but for me, it is. Unless the fingers launched from the wrong keys at the get go and it's pure gibberish, I don't bother with fixes.
One thing I don't do is load up on obscure acronyms. I think I got my fill of that in the workplace (last job was nuts on this, assuming everyone knew what was meant, but really, only the folks that had been there for decades would have had any way to know).
Not being a texter, there are a lot of acronyms used there that I'm not going to know.