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Why do people (not necessarily people of this guild) treat people who speak with either LEET (1337 for those of you who understand it) and text talk as if they are sub-human? People who are too lazy to type correctly or who type too fast to catch all of their mistakes are NOT sub-human. I have found an increasing number of people speaking to people who use Leet, text talk and who have bad grammar or spelling (whether intentional or not) speak to these people as if they are sub-human. Why? People are people despite their mistakes. Can you not take the time to correctly and respectfully talk to these people? I mean if you can take the time to correct people's leet, text talk, and grammar, why then can you not take the time to speak to them as if they are human for they are human.

Personally, I don't treat those people as sub-human. That would be taking it a little too far. But if you see all around you, most of the people who write in leet and text talk are very immature. And they deserve to be subjected to the low level of respect that they are given by the people who don't use leet and text talk.
Also, lack of knowledge about a language does not constitute dropping to the level of shamefully hiding your mistakes by using some backwards computer language. And anyone who does this is at the same level of respect as those who do it because they think it's the s**t.
People should not be afraid to make mistakes, because this is how we learn to better ourselves.


Also, we are not refering to the "physically impaired". Do you really think so little of us, Ramforce?
Anyone who wants to learn proper grammar can do it with some effort. It is only a matter of reading and paying attention to what you write. If you know you are not writing properly, but refuse to make the effort to attempt a correction, then you are obviously lazy because you don't care enough about your writing to try to correct it.