Just read this

beeeyotch

http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/51981579.aspx

and I was surprised at how many people said no and the one response was "sometimes if Im in a hurry I'll leave punctuation out"

So do you use text speak?

I do when I text, but not in an email. (you might catch it on here though)

xDanniellex

When I'm texting, sure.  but I don't use abbrev that no one would understand.  I'll use u instead of you, or r instead of are.  But not any made up abbrev, kind of like what LOL once was. 

I don't send many emails.  Mostly messages between H's family, so I don't use text speak there.  And I certainly wouldn't in work emails, even between friendly co-workers.  

I think texting is doing a real disservice to the younger generation.  

cschissell

Not at all.  I don't like text speech at all.  When I text I use complete sentences and punctuation as much as possible. 

colenmike

O *** on u knw sum of ths grls use txt lngo haha jk

I do when texting because I text a lot!  I usually just leave out vowels though and only do it if I know the person will understand.

I do not do it at work but I do get some folks who email like that and it drives me batty.

More power to the folk who don't but I think some of those ladies said no so they wouldn't get flamed because there have to be more than just the pls and thx folks out there haha

colenmike

Oh what was xxx out was the text version of come haha

chocoholicchick

No, it gets on my last nerve.

KlassyWithaK

I honestly don't. I will skip capitalizing something and misspell words but I try not to abbreviate anything. Don't want that to leak into school and work related writing.

MarylandWed

yes i use it. on here and in email. no, not work email. it's hardly ever on purpose, and it's usually because i'm emailing/nesting from my iphone, which puts me in that frame of mind. but absolutely not to clients or other work peeps. learning ASL has also made writing more difficult as their grammar and word order is completely different which makes my brain start reordering sentences at the wrong time. i even start to text speak in sign sometimes, like wanted to sign the letter u instead of the sign for 'you'. i tell ya i'm all messed up.

karebear304

I text back and forth with my boss and some of the other agents all day long.

I say pls a lot and I also say re as in "regarding". A common text for me is "pls call Marky Mark re the house on willow street". We also answer each other with "k" a lot - mostly me to the boss lady if she asks me to do something so she's knows it's being done. Text is our more urgent form of communication, where as email is stuff to just do whenever.

I never say Thx though - I always spell it out. 

I don't use abbreviations in emails at all - work or otherwise.

MadameD517

I hate the abbreviations, but have started using them when texting and I catch myself doing it on here also. I never use text speak on e-mails! Not only is it confusing but for work it is extremely unprofessional.

Bella in CT

cschissell:

Not at all.  I don't like text speech at all.  When I text I use complete sentences and punctuation as much as possible. 

Ditto.  I have one friend that makes fun of me because I capitalize where appropriate and always use punctuation in texts.  

I hate text speech.

BMWwife

I don't do anything crazy like that one example in the original thread. I use a lot of short hand abbreviations (bc, &, etc, pls, thnx, wtf, lol, kwim).

Especially if I am texting at work our internal cell phones that we carry have a text feature but doesnt have T9. So you literally have to hit the 2 button 3 times for a C, once for an A, 3 times for an L, 3 times more for another L. Just to get the word Call. So we get creative there LOL. We only really text each other to complain about our day when we think the other person may be with a patient and can't answer the phone.