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I don't get it

What is it with people purposely spelling things incorrectly and adding lots of extra letters?  It seems to mainly be the younger kids (based off my Facebook page).  It drives me nuts.  I'm just curious, does anyone know what the reasoning is behind it? 

Examples (from my 12 year old niece): 

Noo scchool todayy wooo hooo!!!! :);) miss my franndss thoughh

Everything will be okayy in the endd.
If its nott okkay,
its nott the end.
; ?

Summbuddy texxt mee cuz imm borrrrreed!!!!! Pleasse!!!!!!

She's intelligent and knows the correct spellings.  Is this suppose to be cool?

Re: I don't get it

  • I am not sure it it's cool, but it drives me nuts! I hate when things are purposely misspelled. I also hate when I receive a text and it is all weird number words. I know you have a smart phone, you can write all the letters out.
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  • I will admit that at that age, I wrote notes to my friends that included words like "N E wayz". Oh and I remember in high school some people thought it would be cool to start wRiTiNg LiKe ThIs (so annoying!). Seems the downward trend has continued.
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  • My 13 year old second cousin does the exact same thing.  She adds extra letters to almost every word in her updates.  I'm guessing it's the cool thing to do?

    I ended up blocking her.  I couldn't stand seeing her annoying updates every two minutes. 

  • My 17 year old cousin does this too. It drive me crazy. I generally ignore most of her status updates.
  • imageskyejo:

    My 13 year old second cousin does the exact same thing.  She adds extra letters to almost every word in her updates.  I'm guessing it's the cool thing to do?

    I ended up blocking her.  I couldn't stand seeing her annoying updates every two minutes. 

    I did the same thing to my 13 yr old sister haha. I am a horrible speller (as you all know) so it really makes me angry when people add extra letters more than anything.

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  • Bahaha, a 29 yo friend of mine does this when she texts.  But honestly, it completely reads the way she talks. Like the multiple letters are exactly how she'll drag out words.  I find it hysterical with her just because it makes me picture her talking, but overall, it's bit much in excess.

    Like if someone wrote, "man, it's been a lonngggggg day" I get it, they are emphasizing long, but the examples above are way too much!


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  • Uh yeah, that's super annoying.

    Though, ringy's right.  In HS my catch phrase was Stuph Rox.  (as in, stuff rocks!  life is awesome!).  Yeah.  Super lame.

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    We'll just not tell H about this little fact, m'kay?
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  • Anybody remember... what was her name... babydoll?
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    Anybody remember... what was her name... babydoll?

    LMAO

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  • Oy I just logged on to facebook and read a note inviting them to a baby shower. They wrote I'm throwing __ a shower on this date, save the date plz. You wrote everything out you couldn't finish and write please. This is such a pet peeve of mine.
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  • Oh my lord that is annoying. I have a few cousins that type like that and lYke dYs and it is so obnoxious. I usually ignore all their updates when I see them in my feed. Ugh!

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  • AHHH BABYDOLL!! SHE WAS SO FUNNN!  I MISS HERRRRR!!!!!

    You knotticles are crazy. 

    Now jumping domestically.

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    Well that was a crazy couple of years.

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  • imageLeo713:

    AHHH BABYDOLL!! SHE WAS SO FUNNN!  I MISS HERRRRR!!!!!

    You knotticles are crazy. 

    Bwah ha! Yes. That's exactly what I'm talking about.

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