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But...a lot of these people are around my age, maybe a little younger. Didn't they have to take typing classes in elementary school? I know I did, and that's why I type so fast now. (My dad, on the other hand, does type like that - but at least he still uses reasonable grammar.)

Back on topic:

People are lazy. They want to look cool. And some of them really just do not know how to spell, and are afraid that others will mock their spelling errors. Either way it's kind of painful, but personally, I would prefer that they at least tried to spell correctly.

And re Monster of Cookies's point: Symbol-typing? I can live with it in a title, because a title is only a few words long, but when the whole entire damned post is written in symbols or TyPeD lIkE tHiS, it can go die. In a fire.

...That is all.

Usually people do it to shorten words so they don't have to type it all out, which is a bit lazy in my opinion. Sometimes they also think it sounds "cute" and don't realize how ridiculous a sentence looks when every other word is typed like someone texted it in a hurry.

I do that kind of grammar when I'm kidding around and just being a troll especially in the Chatterbox Forum. sweatdrop blaugh

Well, why do we use contractions? Contractions are abbreviations as well that got accepted into the descriptive language. I tend to use both depending on how much I am saying. On text, we have limited amount of space, and it's much faster. When typing, it can be much faster.

Now think of it like this: how many of us have actually tried to create a language or code with friends. Coming up with our own words as inside jokes. Text is like a youth code. It's cool when you think of it, because it's not a new language, no, it's a form of writing.

Now, take this into consideration. When you are an adult on adult things, you don't see text talk because there aren't kids. Now, when you're an adult on kid things, you see text talk. Games. Adults can play games, but who are they geared towards? Kids. They expect adults to have families, jobs, social lives, money, and better things to do than games. Social websites. Made for the grounded kid who wants to talk to their friends or the kids who are up at night still talking to them and they ran out of texts on their plan. Not adults who can go get in their car and go meet up with their friends.

Granted, most adults don't live this lifestyle. But it's the standard. So when you're on the internet, take into account who else is on there. Don't get mad at kids for being kids. Don't be mad at adults who still want to be kids because they aren't ready to grow up. Also, don't be mad at international people who are learning English and think it is normal to speak like that. None of us are grammatically correct when we write or speak. That was quite devastating to find out as an English major.

Also think, we're on a kids site right now. Yeah, there's a fair amount of adults on here still, but we got it as kids because it was created for such.

So, my opinion on why people still type like that on the computer, because they can.

what if they do not understand grammar properly and failed there English GCSE?

Well, if they're out of America, just learning English and they did fail their GCSE then I have nothing against them. English is said to be a brutal second language. But at the same time professional businesses are hiring these folks, whoever they may be, foreign or local, and are publicly humiliating themselves with poor grammar. Often I find it's the white folks from around my area of America that do this glaring apostrophe error. It's as if they find it cute to have everything that's a noun be possessive. confused

I'm not really sure why you asked me about Brits who failed, because I said "foreigners/ English as second language". However, anyone who has English as their first language and failed their GCSE has little excuse to use an apostrophe so atrociously for years on end with no correction... They would get their mistakes corrected and they'd try taking the test again, no? They would then take their test again and hopefully pass/ understand their previous errors. But if America's system is an indicator (which I'm in no way saying it is for strictly British education), perhaps they were simply shoved to the next grade with the bare minimum (provided they passed their state testing in the US) and were simply never properly educated on the matter. It happens so often now that kids miss out on concepts because of too many classmates in the same room as well as too fast a pace.

I'm not pinning the blame on poor grammar in my previously mentioned instance on individuals so much as professional businesses for not properly utilizing professional editors or bringing in someone with English knowledge to double check signage and such before it's publicly displayed. Be it laziness or ignorance or whatever, it doesn't look good to "cut corners" or what have you and have a sign with errors. Does it affect sales? Probably not. But it sure bugs me to no end. xd To me it's sorta like seeing Engrish signage in Asian countries where English is rarely spoken in comparison to native languages.