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Text speak - a request

stranger

As someone who is sight impaired, I really struggle to read, even more so if it's in text speak. As far as I'm aware, there is no character limit on this forum. (or if there is, it's big)

Can I please ask that people don't write in text speak or consecutive capitals? The latter gives the impression you're shouting and like text speak, is difficult to read.

Parents

  • Agreed.

    I don't have any kind of sight impairment, and can usually decipher text speak fairly well, but even I find all the abbreviations, text speek, and consecutive capitals a bit of a headache.

    Particularly in the Parents and Carers forum, for some reason - I often start to read a post and it's so full of abbreviations in the first few lines that I don't get past that.

    'DS' is one that always get to me - I believe it means 'darling son' (or 'dearest son', or somesuch), but 'son' is only 1 character longer, and doesn't require holding down the shift-key (or pressing caps-lock twice), so is actually easier to type!

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  • Agreed.

    I don't have any kind of sight impairment, and can usually decipher text speak fairly well, but even I find all the abbreviations, text speek, and consecutive capitals a bit of a headache.

    Particularly in the Parents and Carers forum, for some reason - I often start to read a post and it's so full of abbreviations in the first few lines that I don't get past that.

    'DS' is one that always get to me - I believe it means 'darling son' (or 'dearest son', or somesuch), but 'son' is only 1 character longer, and doesn't require holding down the shift-key (or pressing caps-lock twice), so is actually easier to type!

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