Mini Rant on Munging Up the Language

I just came from a little side work surf to check out some random blogs (I do really love that link down there). And it re-highlighted to me a pet peeve of mine. People who take to reinventing the language they use. No, not making up new words here and there. Its the process of writing Neways instead of Anyways or people who alternate every other letter with a capital as in SaNtA cRuZ.
I know why the latter bothers me (because its damned hard to read anything written that way) but I'm not so sure why the former bothers me so much. Maybe because its a sign of laziness? You can't take the time to tap out Any so instead you go with Ne? No, that's lame, sorry not buying it.

But then there are also emoticons which I also think are a bit stupid and refuse to ever use them. A sideways smiley or a winking smiley? And that means what precisely? Whatever. I guess I'm just a bit peeved off right now.
Hey, at least I'm not lapsing into a litany of sailor styled curses. Though I certainly can. Maybe I'll save that for later when the A's toss another game in the crapper in the late innings after excellent starting pitching performances.

Side note:
Checking how people got to Intellectual Poison is among the funniest parts of my day. Someone found me by doing a Google search on Cape Town sluts. And because I've written about CapeTown numerous times (and still owe an explanation from my long passed Four Truths and a Lie about the CapeTown police action I witnessed) and hasn't just about everybody written about sluts at one point or another? Nah, probably not but it makes me wonder just what else came up when they do the search. Thanks SiteMeter!,