I despise Internet abbreviations (and can barely tolerate many emoticons). I also have a very thick skin, and so I warn more sensitive readers to NOT open this link if you are offended by R-rated language. Here, however, it's directed at a very worthy cause. People you'd otherwise slap upside the head for using Twitter-speak in a message-forum post.

I can think of three people who need to see this, on the same forum where I'd be banned if I just hot-linked the whole image and not just link to it, as here.....

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/nota_bene/rrated_internet_writing_l.php

 I am :o   ;D  ;D

 ;)Even Lee Ermy would be proud of this one. :))

Cut out the actual swearing, but leave the rest alone, and you actually DO have workable correct grammatical tips, for those who sorely need the help. Whoever put that thing together must have spent weeks on it. Too bad I have to forgo linking to it where I think it's needed most.

Whatever nickname you grant to this abbreviated lingo, it is part and parcel of someone too lazy to type the phrase out, or too ignorant to know which phrase is correct.

English is not as nuanced or as difficult as, say, Chinese (but even then, which Chinese? Mandarin?). It's not too much to learn the difference between "too" and "to," or even "two," as circumstance may require.

I actually laughed my way through most of it.  Yes he could have left out quite a few of the swear words but I guess that's what made it amusing to me.  Back when I was in school we were taught to re-read our sentences to make sure we used the right word (there, their, they're) and I still do it to this day.  Although every now and then it still gets away from me.

Good lessons to learn.. :) :)  I also liked the comment about "Mr. Shift key and punctuation.   8) 8) 8)