On 11/20/06, stef <na@[...].invalid>  wrote:
>  On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:20:29 -0800, Paul Lutus wrote:

>  My literacy is just fine, thank you very much.  For the sake of speed, I
>  use shortcuts.

You realise how self-defeating that is? Your speed of typing translates
into greater work for the reader. In your effort to seek help you should
be writing clearly. If that means that you sit down at a PC instead of
replying from your smartphone then do so.

>  Surely, you can make out that "u" = "you", etc....

Yes we can, but it's annoying. Text speak is bad.

Also consider that this is an international group. Phonetic text abbreviations
that may be obvious to an english speaker, might be unreadable to many
worldwide Ruby-talk readers.