At least i try to speak as much as i can a corect English....but...

Hi. To me chating with someone on internet is a different preposition from an examination hall where you have to be correct. I enjoy using short, understandable terms while chating and it saves time as well.

Hi, Ice! MyLot is good practice, and your English isn't at all bad. People who use texting or chat English are either too lazy to spell the words or trying to seem "cool", but they just come across as foolish. Communication in English isn't easy, since it's such an irregular language, made up of bits of all languages. I admire your efforts and improvements.

When I chat I prefer to use short words. Its more easy to use than type the whole word. I think its okay as long us it is understandable by the person you're chatting to. Specailly if you're chatting with many its much easier and faster to do.

Well even i chat and i totally use chat language while toking to my friends.But when it comes to professional or say when i am on mylot, i never use any short forms to write down, i use all the original language and proper grammer as far as i know and correct. But sometimes i tend to make some few mistakes but i think thta is valid.

i don't know any of the chat words you are talking about i am new to all of this and i am old too.lol is all i know.When i text with my phone i wish i knew some .it takes me for every to text some one.

Ya, for me, i'll still prefer to use proper language but not chat language to write and to chat. We can see that there're so many types of short form people created to ease the chatting process, which i also do not know some of them. Sometimes it just doesn't make sense to me. How come that word also can be short-formed?Haha, i'll just laugh. Usually i'll use proper and 'long' words too while chatting online. It's just in case my friend willl not understand it if i use those chatting language, and perhaps it's already my habit to use proper words,haha.

Speaking correct English is not difficult. Using correct English while chattin gis also not difficult. But it seems it has become a habit with people to use all sorts of short forms while chatting. They do this in order to do it fast. But by doing so, they ruin their English. I am always very careful while chatting. I do not use short forms. I type whole letters, however long they are.

I can honestly say that I don't use a lot of chat English, it just looks a little silly to me. My mother was an English teacher and she is appalled by the whole thing. However......I don't chat or text a lot, I'm older and prefer to use email or talk on the phone, maybe if I chatted all the time I would use the shorter versions of words for speed. By the way, your English is very good, and I would advise you to learn the correct spellings first before you try chat talk.

I think the shorten words usually use when we typing an sms. As we know that an sms is worth for 160 characters per sms. So we need to save as many as single character but type it as clear as full meaning. The use of shorten words or characters is strongly influenced by sms typing. It just about a habit. Not only in english, i think other languages also have the same problem. But since english is an international language, so we can use it as orientation. Have a nice day and happy mylotting.