As Metafilter reports, “DA ENGLISH-2-12-Y3AR-OLD-AOLER TRANSLA2R WIL TAEK WUT U WRIET IN IT AND TURN IT IN2 TEH MAN3R A 12-YEAR-OLD AOLER WUD WRIET IT!1!1 LOL JUST WUT U NED 2 KIK START A MONDAY!!1!!” The scary thing is, a whole lot of kids are getting this kind of horrible IM-speak ingrained in their heads and really can’t write in proper English anymore…