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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
It's funny...writing like that generally bugs me, even in casual conversation on the internet. On the other hand, I have a very intelligent friend who is currently in law school, and he writes like that all the time when we talk online.
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It's just the online form of slang.
That's all it is.
All that mister "James Bond" is guilty of is using it during a business transaction. I'm sure he knows the difference between "u" and "you" and maybe his shift key got stuck when he typed "wAS", but it's just slang. Like SecretMethod's lawyer friend here, he was in school learning the difference between "u" and "you", so that when he's talking about his defendent, he'll use the word "you", and refer to his online buddies as "u". There's a time and place for everything, you wear a tie to the courtroom and a hawaiian shirt to the luau. There's a time for articulent language and a time to say, "Hey man, waz'up?"
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