i wuz goin 2 rite a pome
but didnt no wear 2 start
i wrote about other tings
and b4 dat a gr8 big hart
wat wuz i thinking of
i dont no now becuz
i cant reed wut i jus rote
da wurds r jus a fuzz
2 pruve a point i did da pome
in dis silly way
wut it says, I dont no
i can't read it n e way
Author notes
Just a joke (or jab ) at the shoddy way people treat the written word. The world is turning into Text-land.
(LMM's eyes are going to go 
when she sees this 
)
Written March 29th, 2004
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thy sy tht w cn rd nd cmprhnd wrds wthth vwls n thm! Wht d y thnk?
Gregg
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Took me a while, but I figured it out.
For me, I need that morning coffee to get the brain kick started.
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wow dat wuz good pome lol
...oh, sod it; unlike you, i can't be as talented in my assumed illiteracy
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Lol
"dis" was very good,
hehe,made me laugh,
you are good at this,
Hehe.
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That was brilliant! I hate it when people write their poems like that. I only did that once (in a contest that asked for chat lingo/sticky caps)... I guess you had a quite hard time writing this.
LittleAnn
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Doooood, HAHAHA I love thissss!!!! So flippin' awesome. . . I hate when people can't speak the Eng(well, type) English language (I have ADD
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This is too funny!!! Well done, I am almost willing to bet you had a hard time writing this out though, huh?!
I had hard time trying to read the thing!!! Oh well it is really good!!!
♥ KIKI
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lmao, I am a self-confessed text grammar addict, though I really am quite fluent in the use of correct English language! Though I never write my poems using abbreviations and suchlike, I find it very difficult to type a comment without reverting to my illiterate way of communicating. Ah, the youth of today, what is the world coming to? Ha-ha,
wey im slippin in2 me old ways o typin now so i gess i beta go, cya
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whooo hooo!!! I was just reading someone's comment on a poem today, and it was a great example of "functional illiteracy". I don't know, maybe the person wasn't illiterate, just lazy, but I could barely understand what it was they were trying to say!
this was very funny, and in spite of the obliteration of the grammar and such, it was obvious that a good writer wrote it. excellent, in spite of itself.
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Oh goodness.. this is starting to remind me of the message boards on here. Lol. Seriously, Im sure you know what I mean (I clicked on your name on a reply you had made on the message board). You would think that someone would take the time to spell out the words its only an extra keystroke or two. I think that money should be invested in teaching kids at a young age the proper way to type. Its so annoying when you go into a chatroom and someone is talking like this "DiZ iZ lIkE dA sHiT yO" I mean seriously.. it took me more time to type out that sentence than it did my entire comment. Whew. Im done venting. I liked your poem!!
MaLz -
In this line 'i wrote about other tings' I feel 'about' is to proper, and I feel it should be 'bout' or 'bout
I understand every single word, of course I could understand every single word of my 7th grade Guidance Counselor. Only me and my brother could. He had a very deep voice and he slurred his words. Not because he was drunk but because he was really old. I like him, forget his name at this apparent moment, but, I do like him - nice guy.
Anyways, a humorous piece, a nice piece, I hope that my comment has been forthcoming.
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ooo VERY NICE POEM! hehe i noe because i talk like tis!-hm and i am proud of it! lol my friends try to correct me but they cant. =) anyways I LUV TIS POEM>. ITS GEAT!!!!
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I love it! I know I'm being hipocritical but I try only to use the abriviations that are the most usefull I like words! love the poem! thank you for the amusement!
`~blond chick -
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dis pome is mint! i lv the way u jus put it in a language kids can get wiv n stuff. ur wel k%l n i fink uv reely undast%d the way ppl r -
Dat waz phunnie I wood say...4sure...
Eddy -
Great
I really enjoyed your poem. It was cute and I needed a good laugh. I myself understand what was written quite well. Probably because I myself write like that sometimes. For me...I do it to save time when typeing. But I understand that some people can't understand what it is I am talking about. So I only write like that depending on who i'm talking to...if I know that they know what I'm talking about because they talk the same way...then I feel it's okay. Anyway thanks for the laugh! -
*blinks quickly* I hate things written or people taklking that way! Honestly. I cn't stand it and htis poem seriously tells how I feel about it. You can't read it, or it's very hard to.
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your write. it is hard to read. but i think i got it! whoa! that actually really suprises me!..haha..i kinda like it. put a smile to my face and realize..well..i dont know..anyways...good job
later
rock on-
-jessie -
U kno tha sad thang iz tha sum ppl rly rite like thaz all da time.
Yeah, I have a friend online who honestly talks like that! She gets to frustrated when I ask her over..and over.."what?!"
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Thanks for the poem. I never really can understand when people are speaking this way. I'm 22 and I hear it everyday with my friends. It makes me cringe. Here on AP I often get the same thing and I just don't understand. Someone said to me on one of my poems "What a pimp poem" and I am still not quite certain if my poem was liked or disliked. This poem made me laugh. Thanks for sharing.
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Oh! Thanks for this brilliant commentary on chat speak.... I know that many try to say it is a shorthand in typing, but I think that the majority of them just don't know how to spell.
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Thank you everyone for your great comments, and a thank you to whoever it was that put this in the feature box
(or a handshake if you prefer )
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very innova8ive and a gr8 rite... lol... it's 2 da point... thanx 4 sharing...
mina
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I also clicked on this out of curiosity.... and I wasn't disappointed!
I get the point you are making here... I can not bear 'dat' and 'wiv'... no, no, no!!!
My friends laugh at my texts, on the odd occasion I send them, because they are always fully punctuated and unabbreviated!
neway... I njoyed ur litle pome ere... see I can't do it!
~ Louise..xx
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I had to stop..re-read and then read it again. Now my head hurts. I agree with everything that you've said Barbara. This generations spelling is horrible. Thanks for the laugh and the headache...I think.
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LMAO I saw this in the featured area, saw the name and thought now this should be funny because I knew you wrote quite well so it will be great and it was. I love it. I've been thinking of writing something like this but I just can't do it. lol This reminds me of a critique I got where they were saying how bad my poem was and they couldn't spell one word correctly. I literally laughed until I cried. This is so funny because it's true.
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Cute.
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I must applaud this, and I will before I go. I think that you did a wonderful job. Everytime that I see where someone puts n e how for anyhow I just shudder with disgust. If they are really in that big a hurry why stop whatever they were doing in the first place. Bravo.
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It bugs me half to death when people use 2 for anything but two. Thanks for the laugh, it was mostly jibberish to me too!
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Yo yo, dawg...wut up? Interesting, very interesting. Couldn't understand a damn thing you wrote, but it was interesting.
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thats funny (nice)
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color (with a u)
very clever - walk softly (that's twice now) the thought police will judge and catalog you!
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I like it, at least it expresses your personal dislike of that texty message crap lol, i like how it mocks alot too
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There is nothing worse than someone not taking the time to type out a y and o too add to u to form you. Text messaging is fine on cell phones, but I like it when people can show that their time in English class in school wasn't a complete waste. Little grammar mistakes I can accept, and common misspelling ones I can understand, since I am sometimes the Queen Of The Typo.
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What did Andy Griffith say to Opie? I c u O p
Hmmm... how creative. I see you are rather fed up with the slaughter of the English language that's prevalent on the Internet and in IM's... well, this was rather clever... I thought this was fairly humorous. Anyway, keep up the good work and thanks for the laugh.
Keep up the good fight; it's all we have left...
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I thought you would appredicate this poem, LMM. It was hard to write, since I kept having to go back and correct the words to make them this bad. I think my brain is still mad at me for this
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Ahh, yes. It's so good to see a good point well made! *lol* I was encouraged to find out there was a cadre of people out there who agree with me (that if you're going to write poetry you should at least know what rules you're breaking) when I wrote a column on spelling and grammar! Short and sweet and very nicely done!
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MY EYES MY EYES!!!!!!!! ROTFLMAO!!! well U no me, i don't need 2 tell U how annoying it is to C people spell this way in here (or anywhere else really) (yep, that's me, chemist by day, internet spell checker the rest of the time)
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This *is* too funny! i had to read it twice to understand it. I find it annoying when people type like that. Is it that much work to add a few extra letters to a word to make it legible?
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HAHAHA! Oh man, thats too funny. I hate it when people write theire poems like they write in chat rooms and such. People should take a little time and learn how to really type. Ah, but this made me laugh, yea. Funny stuff.
Peace
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