{"id":813,"date":"2008-01-31T10:27:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T20:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/writing-show-respect-for-readers-time\/"},"modified":"2011-07-08T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T16:01:08","slug":"writing-show-respect-for-readers-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/writing-show-respect-for-readers-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing: Spare Us the Crypto-Babble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/images\/crazy.gif\"  hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"\/>As I was browsing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/01\/27\/southern-racists-ado.html\" target=\"new\">post on BoingBoing<\/a> this morning, I came across a comment that is quoted in part below:<\/p>\n<p><em>snc y ddn't sy y hld jb n fd srvc .. tht's n. blh blh. S y hvn't bn stffd. nd y hv n cncpt f hw tht wrks.<br \/>\ncn tll by yr tn y'v stffd mr n wtr wh rnd tp frm y. Prbbly sm sngl mthr tryng t fd hr kds r sm cllg stdnt tryng mk nds mt. Y cn dny t bt &#8220;ptnl&#8221; s wht ppl wh dn't tp sy. sm.zr= yr tp t's k, t's yr rght. t's ptnl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>HELLO!!!??? <\/p>\n<p>An occassional BTW or LOL can be forgiven, but in a word &#8211; make that 3 words &#8211; it's <strong>absolutely flippin' ridiculous<\/strong> to waste readers' time with such crypto-babble.  <\/p>\n<p>OK, I admit that after scrolling by it once or twice, I was intrigued enough to read the comment to discover if there actually was some worthwhile message hidden in between the consonants &#8212; which unfortunately there was not.<\/p>\n<p>I know&#8230; it's my own fault for taking the bait. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n[tags]writing,blogging,comments,blog comments[\/tags]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was browsing a post on BoingBoing this morning, I came across a comment that is quoted in part below: snc y ddn&#8217;t sy y hld jb n fd srvc .. tht&#8217;s n. blh blh. 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