03 December 2008

New spellings

Saw these two pieces of graffiti on the T this morning:
I <3 youh↓
kyla
and
yaritza & kyla
wuss here
<3
11.08.08
8:41 P.M.
There are a couple of things here that I think are worth noting:
  1. I'm not using "<" + "3" to make the heart that they drew more keyboard friendly. That's actually how it was written, <3.>
  2. Wuss. Wuss.
    1. Not "wuz". Certainly not "was".
    2. Do you think they know that "wuss" is an actual word? A noun?
  3. Youh. YOUH.
    1. Isn't one of the big complaints about English spelling that it is rarely phonetic? Weren't you puzzled by all the extraneous characters when you first learned how to spell "through"? Why go through the trouble of adding a silent "h". I cannot decide if I find this more visually offensive than "u". At least I can understand the logic behind "u".
I suppose what I find most surprising was the deliberate capitalization and punctuation of P.M. when the rest of the note was lowercase.

Lexie, how many T points do you think I get for this?

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