Originally Posted by analog

roachboy: It is a degradation when the communication level is broken down, or the "relaxed" speech follows into what is supposed to be "formal" speech. I work for a professional company, and the people within the company send emails back and forth about important, company-related material. It happens with increasing frequency (though thankfully not often) that I will receive an email containing atrocious grammar, misspellings (despite the fact that ALL company machines use Word or Outlook, which have spellcheckers), and bizarre 'net lingo. I've seen "lol" on a professional document. I'll have entire emails with no capitalization or even basic punctuation, like commas. That's just sad.