I've noticed among the younger people (10-15) a great number of them no longer know how to properly spell words and only use the "abbreviated language" that Sleepyjack mentioned above. Even in a college environment, there is a distressing fraction of the populace who uses it regularily.
I don't know if it will have permanent effects on the language (I hope not) to have the new generation of English-speakers growing up using this shorthand - it drives me insane to read it.
As for using mathematical notation in writing, the worst was when I was talking to a (fellow geek) friend and said:
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but i mean, saying that \[Exists]x:elem:Z, x > -:inf: is sort of a vacuous statement.
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That's Mathematica notation - just for the record - and I end up speaking like that from time to time. So computers
do change how we communicate.
