bler144: Sometimes inscrutability or playfulness is precisely what someone is trying to communicate, and writers and poets and lyricists have always understood that form and sound can be as important as clarity. If anything, writing that way almost certainly required more effort of her as well - she could turn a single 4 letter word into 3 eight letter words. I'm not saying she's the next coming of ee cummings, but hey.
Some days I didn't bother reading her; some days I did, and yes, it required some effort. But either way, her posting never cost me anything.
But, suit yourself.
hedwards: That's not really how communication works. Being playful is one thing, but, this is just plain lazy. As far as I can tell, including reading her own post on the matter, this isn't an intentional act of playing with conventional grammar and spelling. I appreciate the playful use of language, but peppering virtually every sentence with multiple global and local errors is not playful. Playful is exchanging some of the words or spellings in a mindful way for some purpose. Poetry is not easy, otherwise everybody would be doing it and the method of speech doesn't say anything particularly compelling. ...
I disagree with "lazy". There are plenty of people more or less butchering german (my mother tongue) every day, because they are dumb, lazy or both. I don't mind dumb. A brain has limits. If it happens to have limits lower than "average" for certain things (or all of them), that is just how it is. No shame in it. Being lazy is (in my opinion and observation) a chosen attitude that states "let someone else take care of that for me". What I mean is, I find people being lazy with language usually are lazy in many (if not all) other things they feel have to be done by someone else
for them, because it's not worth
their precious time.
That said, I am not a native english speaker, but I could very well see, that Fairfox's posts are not lazy. The amount of wrong spelling practically screams it. If you know how to spell a word right (which usually happens automatically with your mother tongue), you usually write it correctly out of habit or automatically think on it for a second if you are not sure right away. Going against that "automatism" is effort not laziness.
I don't know why she/he writes that way and I don't really care. Reading the first line of Fairfox's posts told me who wrote it. A quick look to the side (name/avatar) would confirm it. If I wanted to know what is written, I would "read the sound" and figure out what words are meant that way. If I didn't want to know, I wouldn't.
hedwards: Her posting, definitely does cost you and anybody else that comes across one of those posts something cognitively. It's one more decision that you have to make during the day, if you ignore it, and quite a bit if you take what should be clear written text, translating it into sounds, identifying which word it should be and then interpreting the message. That's a lot more work than you seem to realize and for those that are not native speakers of English or who have learning disorders, it's a ton of work.
That brings me back to the "lazy" part. It is no-ones job, but my own, to make my life easier. Desicions are an integral part of life. If that is already too much for you (general you not specifically you), you have far greater problems than people with bad spelling (or other -for you- annoying things). Those people should also have learned by now, that the internet is to be avoided, if life itself is already overwhelming.
People with bad spelling don't worry me. What does worry me, is the fact, that people are "training/conditioning" themselves to be inable to protect themselves from things they deem harmful to themselves. "Ignore" buttons, "block" buttons, "downvote" buttons are used on mundane things, because they are incapable of ignoring things on their own, because they "conditioned" themselves to have to read everything and have to respond to everything. That is unhealthy. Real life doesn't have those buttons.
Fairfox, I hope you are well and if you are not, I hope that you get well again soon.
Edit: spelling
