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Q: Typing in shorthand?
Recently I have met several Chinese women who prefer to type in 'shortcut/shorthand.' Here is an example...
Hw R U tdy? Iwz g0ng 2 g0 2 wrk bt t cr dnt wrk. (How are you today? I was going to go to work but the car didn't work.)
Is this becoming a thing in China, or have I just met some stupid and lazy women lately?
I don't think it's specific to China. I've teenage family members and vague acquaintance who forgot they are not teenagers anymore, who type like this on their phone or on Facebook. Go on the comment section of some blog platform targeting teenagers, it will be common too. I really don't know what people think of this in China, and it if it's carried out in Mandarin too.
Yup, I find it annoying too, it's painful to read and auto-completion remove the excuse "but it's hard to type full words on a phone".
Spiderboenz:
I suppose. The first time I came across it was in phonetic Arabic (like pinyin, but with arabic) which is hard enough to understand WITHOUT leaving out random vowels.
DrMonkey:
@Nessquick It's the movie poster for the movie "Idiocracy". It's the story of 2 very average people who are frozen for decades and wake up in the future. The whole humanity is a lot more stupid, and our time travelers are now the smartest people on the planet. The whole plot is based on the observation that there is an inverse correlation between intellectual abilities and the number of offsprings one have.
But the guy on the poster looks like The Dude, so he gets my immediate sympathy.
I've been wondering the exact same thing.
How comes they speak such a broken English, and yet manage to makes fetus sentences such as "Wat r u doin 2nite lol"? It baffles me.
I mean, I did use that kind of spelling when I started getting better at English, because I thought it made me look "cool", like a "pro". But I was 13 years old back then, during the "1337/pwn" times of online gaming (Which is where I learnt to speak English in the first place).
I wasn't a woman in her early 30's who had been learning in class...
If you are a Chinese person reading this, please, make full sentences. Typing "u" instead of "you" doesn't make you look cool, and unless you're a centenarian using a computer for the first time, it certainly is NOT a lot faster either.
Because they think that's cool and young.
Exactly the way they think the Backstreet Boys are cool and young.
It's actually more work for them to learn how to write in retardish, but still, they think it makes them more authentic.
