Malleus Maleficarum

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The prime example in this case would be the three letters "You". In English, this is a word - and a beautiful one, for that matter!

"u" is usually merely a letter, and no word at all. The exception to this is when using what I call chatspeak, though you may know by other names, where it pretends to be a word. In regards to this specific butchery of the English language, some people actually dislike being addressed as such, since it implies that they aren't worth the amount of your time it would take to type the whole "you".

English not being a first language is not an excuse for these types of errors, especially not when the person in question actually does use the real word occasionally, proving that he does know how to type it - he just chooses not to, for reasons unknown.

I'm not demanding that anyone study the language to reach a high enough level of proficiency in order to post on the internet - I'm just asking that you take the few extra seconds required to use what you do know rather than slamming your forehead repeatedly against the keyboard hoping that words will come out.

In either case, if you do clean it up and expand it or call it a summary, I'll be glad to accept it as part of the internet, as well as a (moderately) useful contribution to the sum of human knowledge.