I used to find abbreviators more annoying than I do now. I still think people are silly to do cell phone text on a full keyboard (U R 2 good 2 B tru--that sort of thing). But for some people, that's their style, just like my style was developed on a full keyboard and as a writer who wrote for a living for many years. So I tend to write like I learned to write--before the days when any sort of electronic text devices ever existed.

I try real hard to give other people's styles a break. I confess I will occasionally pick apart a deeply and abidingly illiterate sort if he slams someone else for stupidity or, as happened on another sub-forum earlier, if someone writes an incomprehensibly illiterate sentence advising someone else to read more. That was irony of the highest order, and it begged to be confronted.

I would hope that most cannabis advocates would have the live-and-let-live mentality about how folks express themselves. If someone attaches a stigma to people who write coherently and clearly like poor Jagarr above, then that's a perception problem on part of the attacher, not the writer. If I attach a stigma to people who abbreviate, then that's my problem and not the abbreviator's. If there's one thing that this place teaches you, it's an appreciation for differences. And an appreciation for the spell-checker we have here. Even when I use it, I still find mistakes in what I wrote later on.

I love "meh," by the way! It sounds just like would look if you could see someone say it in person: curt, disdainful and slightly dismissive. Any word that can convey that in only three letters is alright by me.