I just get annoyed in general also if someone who used to type really nicely and with good spelling suddenly starts to deteriorate and type in all lower-case and chatspeak.
It's not exactly a "secret" in any way, but... that's pretty much exactly how I feel about people typing either in all-lowercase or all-caps, people using lots of chatspeak, and people who regurgitate the same old unfunny Internet memes (in other words, all of them) over and over.
All-lowercase and all-caps just annoy me a little (they're tolerable in small amounts, as long as the grammar and such are decent), but the chatspeak and memes really piss me off, especially when
combined with all-caps or all-lowercase.
It's even worse when you point out to someone who's typing a random incoherent mess of chatspeak that you can't understand a word they're saying... and instead of responding like a normal person, or even trying to improve their typing so you can figure out what the heck they're trying to say, they go berserk. They suddenly break out of Chatspeak Mode and type in real English for once... only to go on about how they actually
can type correctly, and their English is (supposedly) so much better than yours, and that they got perfect scores in their English classes and so on.
And yes, the person I'm referring to (not anyone on these forums, I hope!) actually did go on and on about how great their grades and test scores in English class were.
So there's people who
can use decent English, but instead they type in incoherent all-lowercase Internet-speak
on purpose. It's bad enough when people type that way because they never learned any better and it's the only way they know how, but people typing in chatspeak nonsense even though they're capable of doing it the right way? That's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen on the Internet, which is saying a lot.
I don't have any "real" secrets, though. At least not any that I can remember at the moment...
