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I'm a strong advocate of proper grammar in writing. I really don't like the road that the written word is going down.

I was sitting in on the physics class I was tutoring for; I looked over a girl's shoulder and saw her notes reading: "matches ur power"

ur? In notes!? I was furious. Oh well.

Back when the Internet was connected by 200 baud modems, it was actually beneficial to write '2' instead of 'to' or 'u' intstead of 'you'. Just because over the course of a whole posting, you saved 3 or 4 seconds in your connection.

Now, connection-speeds are fast enought that one can type full words and not have to sacrifice upload speed. T9 phones are a different matter.