My question is do people purposely talk in a way so they'll come off ignorant? It's kind of silly actually, but maybe that's just me.
Especially now that we're older (assuming you're 18 +), i'd expect us to be over the stage of typing out our words like we're dumbasses. Or even typing grammatically incorrect. I'm not saying common grammar mistakes or spelling errors, but in a way that it just comes off as uneducated.
But you remember back then when many people would type out words such as the word "at" would be "aht" or "me" would me "meeh" (how does "meeh" even come to mean "me" anyways...) and so on and so forth. That's what i'm talking about.
Depending on from where you are from or who you surrounded yourself with, your choice of typological slang differs. So everyone probably just has a different way to spell out their slang. Which can become very confusing for those who have no idea what each word means, so when reading it would just result in, "what the hell are you saying.."
Well my point it, at this age i'd expect us to be over that stage and talk with more dignity. After all we are living in a country of opportunity, where we spent years and years in school learning how to write and speak properly. Why throw it down the drain to make it sound like you haven't spent a day of your life in school?
Then again, maybe it's really just me. I'm not so bothered by this topic. It's whatever, people can freely type and speak their words however they please. As long as i understand, then it's good.