If you asked me, say, maybe 6 years ago, I would have said no, but then again, I used to be one of those ignoramuses at that time too. At first, I couldn’t understand what the big deal was typing ‘u’ instead of you, but then as I got more mature and more into talking to people over the internet, I saw how annoying it was to decipher what people were saying when they were being too lazy to type proper English. It’s like I need an Idiots to English translator!
Now, I don’t mind the whole punctuation thing IE: your/ you’re; dont/don’t, etc. The caps thing doesn’t bother me, and I’ve come to accept that 80% of people on the internet [and the English speaking world for that matter] think that ‘their’ and ‘they’re’ is spelled like ‘there’.....but when you completely transform words or have me convinced that I’m talking to a 3 year old is when I have a problem.
The best example I could give, is I was talking to someone from school, I can’t remember what we were talking about, but his putrid grammar and writing skills I could never forget. Here are some things he said:
‘y u do thaaa’ – ‘Why’d you do that?’
im goin 2 skool -‘I’m going to school.’
u no i lyke u so y u wit sum1 else – ‘You know I like you, so why are you with someone else?’
This guy is in college! I wanted to strangle him the entire time, and I eventually blocked him after a few IM conversations. My dad can barely count to 10 and he types better than that.
So, to answer your question, yes, bad, EXTREMELY bad, grammar and spelling does piss me off. People, if you’re a computer junkie like all the rest of us, learn some English, because if you don’t, no one that’s worth a d@#& will want to talk to you, you will have more friends in the long run, and you will live longer.