Please Put Your Wires In My Brain - Prompt Me

... want people to read your fic, it's a good idea to write full, proper sentences and use correct spelling and grammar. And no netspeak . Maybe I'm just a snob, but I abhor netspeak. Textspeak. Whatever you want to call the mangling and butchering of perfectly simple words because apparently it's too much effort to write 'you' or 'whatever' or whatever other words get chopped down to mere shadows ...

Um, I gotta book...

...never actually been too sure of... either she means that she has to go sort out her library issues (which is plausible) or it's valley girl for 'go'. According to Stephen Fry 'book' has become textspeak for 'cool', since the young folk are too lazy to deal with the errors of predictive texting . 'Book' was also the name of one of my favourite Firefly characters. Maybe I should just say that ...

Writer's Block: That's So Cliché

... fail at spelling/punctuation/grammar. The obvious ones like those lolcat things "srs cat is serious" I don't mind them, but people who are very well past the age of 5, let alone 35, who can't spell simple words they teach in kindergarten drive me batshit . Apparently they're teaching kids textspeak in school now. Not sure if it's true, but good lord man, what the hell is wrong with this place.

...to the next generic mcmansion, three states away, in another few years. their families barely speak and don't have a dinner table anymore; so they talk to their fellow alienated friends in textspeak on shoddily~made, overpriced wireless communication devices. they have no roots, because individualism has made families generic. and, even though their life is one big menu of endless options , they ...