Originally Posted by
Ladyjanedoe
I don' t get why so many are going off on the original poster. It took me a good while to figure out what DP9 and OBW meant. I don't she was being a snob at all.
I agree with this poster. I did not get the impression that the original poster was being snobbish or critical about spelling and such but that she wanted to get the information that someone had posted and couldn't understand it. I have had this problem recently too and it wasn't the spelling that was a problem (I often misspell also!) but the lack of punctuation like someone else mentioned. I had a hard time figuring out where a sentence began and ended. Since I am not a "texting" person (and this looked like it might have been posted that way), I had the feeling that that was why I couldn't decipher it. I read through it three or four times then gave up. I have no problem with ESL posters. I can usually figure out what they are trying to say fairly quickly so no problem and they do a much better job than I would do in their language! So, spelling mistakes, not a problem for me; wrong word usage, not a problem for me; cropped words and complete lack of punctuation, a problem for me for sure. Now, how do I get myself into the 21st century? And do I really want to do that? hehehe