Why do you write “you” as “u” here? I don’t want to be rude, but it’s very jarring to see juvenile txt-speak in a serious discussion.
The mix of "The same consideration applies to coordinate systems:" and "r u positioning urself..." in the same message is ridiculous to me and I can't take anyone seriously who speaks like this.
It's not illegal or immoral, but it is at the very least, demonstrably distracting from their own actual substantive point. Here we all are talking about that when they otherwise had a perfectly good observation to talk about.
Everyone is jumping on your use of the word "serious" as though you meant serious like cancer instead of just not texting ya bro bout where u at tonite, as though there are only two levels of formal and informal, the two extremes.
If this is so casual and we are txting, then why did they use punctuation and no emojis? Ending sentences with periods is verbal abuse now, so, I guess we're not txting after all? Pick a lane!
You, and parent poster, understood them fine. You, and the parent poster, are the ones who are steering the conversation in the direction of how they typed, not what they typed.
They had a "perfectly good observation to talk about", yet u decided not to talk about it.
There is no objective way to assign all blame for the tangent to just us or just them, however the closest you can come is to say that whoever speaks first is more responsible for their unprompted speech than responders are for their reactions. They chose their reactions, but they are not reactions in a vacuum, they are reactions to something, that came from someone else.
A reactor who reacts simply to nitpick provides much less to a conversation than a reactee with interesting thoughts expressed unusually.
hardly. this is an informal internet forum of mostly anonymous people chit chatting about random stuff instead of working.
The question was about contracting “u’re” to “ur”, as is commonly done in text-ese, not to “re”.
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(But "oll korrect" is apparently attributed to Andrew Jackson, who was a native speaker, yes.)
This could be what you're observing. Or perhaps they just like the aesthetics.
Like the sibling comment says, we're all semi anonymous internet folks talking about mostly not serious things.
If only smartphones had some means of seeing the typed output... a screen perhaps? Icing on the cake would be some kind of backspace button, which together would enable proofreading! You know, like in other forms of written communication.
Basically everyone will insist it's entirely to be blamed on the phone, and we're expected to believe that no, really, the moment they sit at a physical keyboard they reliably distinguish your from you're etc.