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I hatehatehate text speak.

No, seriously.  I loathe it.  People who do textspeak to me become a lower class.  For heaven's sake, the phones have predictive text...USE IT.  And if you text speak in an EMAIL?!?!  What the hell is your problem?  I've seen posts on blogs (in teh comments) that are in textspeak.  If you are smart enough to have typed in the freaking web address, you're competent enough (barely) to type in full words.  Not like typing is a skill you need these days or anything.  Will the world end if you have to take two extra minutes to type full words?  I think not.

Lazy c*nts (as Twenty would say).

I was in a conversation about this on my private blog about a year ago, and got some comments that things like SOS, SWALK, etc were the text speak of their day.  Yes, I can see that.  But there are very few acronyms that can counter the insane way that textspeak is being used.

How do you type?

Heres a quick question to anyone interested in answering.

When I was in secondary school I was fortunate enough to learn a bit about computers and typing, don't forget this was over 18 years ago, computers were quite rare.

My question to you all is how do you type?

I was taught to type with my fingers in a line starting with my left hand from little finger to the index finger on the letters A, S, D, F and the right hand from index to little finger on the J, K, L, ; with both thumbs being used for the space key. You then were to type with your fingers going up or down to other keys that corresponded to each finger but always end up resting back on the keys mentioned above. Is this making any sense.

I passed the exam with flying colours but I do notice people nowadays ain't got a clue about this rule that was so important if you ever wanted to speedtype. I have even fallen for the one finger typing myself well 3 fingers. I now type with both my index fingers flying about the keyboard the only key I do keep to the rules is my thumb on my right hand been used for space.

So is there anyone out there who continues to use the typing rules???