Kids do it some, but it's an unfortunate truth that, here anyway, we're seeing the older generation folks who never properly learned how to type pick up the chat language because it means fewer keystrokes for them. Sure, somebody taught them it was acceptable, but they should be old enough to know better.

Our last few management newsletters were impossible to read, as they were filled with single letter word associations and strange abbreviations that take more time for my brain to process than just reading the whole word would take.

I'm beginning to think my generation (currently thirty to forty years old) is the sandwich generation. Young enough to know how to type, old enough to actually want to use that skill to show we're capable of using real words.

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