It’s bad enough when English speakers use it but it’s a million times worse when foreigners have caught onto it. They’ve studied hard enough to grasp a new language so they should use it to the best of their ability, nt 2 B a dik & Uz it lyk ths. I think it’s a case of them trying to fit into their deluded view on what British culture is; Johnny Foreigner syndrome. I’m sure they won’t take me butchering their mother tongue too kindly either because I somehow find it convenient.
It’s pure selfishness and bone-idleness and it’s not benefitting anybody, I have trouble deciphering their messages on the best of days. It’s not a time saver as people waste A LOT more time doing the most mundane of things, character limits isn’t much of an issue these days and even if it was, the people bound by them still waste texts by sending “lol x” every so often. I saw my mum use ‘lol’ on Facebook and I cringed, bet she doesn’t know what it means and used it to try and fit in, deary me… Most of their abbreviations have no relation to the phrase they’ve cut short, take “hbu” for example, how does that correlate to “how about you?”? We all might as well make up our own acronyms and fuck them up just because we can, or TCALSS; WAMAWMUROAAFTUJCWC.