Modern Day Communication

[Triumph]

Yes, this is a weird topic. I was bored during grinding and was watching a shout conversation.

And for those of you from GZF, beware of wall of text. If you want to avoid wall of text, read last paragraph. Or post "didn't read" like everyone in GZF. Anyways...

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What exactly motivates people to use shorthand nowadays in games, texting, or whatever else in communication with others? I can understand substitution of "u" for "you" - to me, it's being lazy. Some others I can understand as well, like "n" for "and". Such an example is a popular American restaurant (ok, unpopular if you don't like it) Steak n' Shake, which is predominate in the Midwest and East Coast. However, others I don't get at all.

One of them is "ne1". I mean, you might get sick of typing out "anyone" if you use that phrase, but what? It takes 3 seconds longer to type? It also looks nicer. Another is simply to, too, or two. I can understand "2" for "two", but for "to" and "too" also? It looks stupid to me, to be honest (tbh? yet another lol...and another right there) "im going 2 school".

And some seem to me like a wannabe trend on its own. Yes, I'm from GunZ, heard about Fiesta from Guntrix in May. Anyways, now in ijji, there's a new trend, don't really know if it happens elsewhere...kik. Not kick, kik. Wow. Is it really hard to add a "-c"? I join half the games in Soldier Front, a few rounds in and... "kik trmph he use aimbot". Well of course you can't kick in a middle of a game in Soldier Front, but I see "kik" way more often than "kick". It happens even in GunZ, when you play against newer players...K-Style them a few times, they go "zomg kik haker". Hell, I've been kicked by level 50s in GunZ for utterly raping them in two hits.

In conclusion: What makes people take shorthand and transform it so much that it's barely recognizable English? It spreads like a bonfire - One person starts it, then others catch on to it, and younger players and newer players alike think that it's the proper way to type, and boom. You have shorthand from 95% of the online gaming community. I mean, in GunZ, yeah, if you can shorthand to save a second in a clan war, I can see doing it. But in casual conversation? Is there a point? Maybe it's us, the current gaming community, that ends up influencing newer and younger players alike. Maybe in fifty years everyone will revert to shorthand and laugh at people from the 90s to now who use standard English.

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P.S. Gotta love drama. I just realized I threw in a fair share of it.