An important comment from Ms Thompson:
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She added: "There is the necessity to have two languages - one that you use with your mates and the other that you need in any official capacity."
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This touches many of the same issues being discussed in the piercings/tattoos thread. We all live and move in different but neighbouring (often overlapping) 'communities'. When moving beyond our own immediate social circle we find we either have the skills to engage with the circle we move into, or we don't. Those that do, will successfully interact and gain as a result. Those that can't will be ignored or treated as an idiot.
It happens here on Cable Forum ... those that recognise we as a community prefer to be addressed in written English of reasonable quality (and not TXT SPK) tend to fit in, get the help they need etc. Those that insist on writing in text are usually ignored and sometimes asked to modify the way they are expressing themselves. If they do, great ... if they don't, they don't necessarily get as much helpful engagement from the community here as they might otherwise have done.