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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:11 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:42 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:13 pm
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I would say that it depends on how well you know them and how they like to be dealt with and, of course, whether they're likely to care about the state of their grammar.
If they're not likely to care about grammar: Don't do anything. It will not do anything for the friendship.
If you think they would care then you have to decide what to do based on how you think they like to be dealt with. If they don't like people to feed them a line of... manure, shall we say... then just come out and tell them.
If you don't think they take criticism well then you could appeal to the evil third power, "You know, I don't mind that you use txt-tlk but if you're going to spend a lot of time doing [insert thing you do together online] then you're going to run into some Grammar Nazis and you might want to think about being a little more careful with what you type." Or the method of I-phrasing can be helpful, "You know [insert friend's name], I'm not a big fan of txt-tlk and I know it's easier and faster but could you do me a favor and please not use it when you send me e-mails."
Then again, sometimes the best way is just to lead by example; maybe they'll follow suit. I don't mean by this that you should correct their mistakes; just don't get drawn into using txt-tlk when writing back to them. I tend to like this option best because it doesn't put you in the position of having to deal with them reacting in an unexpectedly bad manner to your request.
I guess I tend, overall, to be in the don't do anything camp; but if you really want your friend to change then, one way or another, you're going to have to ask them to.
Note to Talryk: I am a little crazy and so take my advice with this. *Hands you a big bag of salt.*
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:07 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:43 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:33 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:00 pm
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