I tried reading the OP, but it was giving me a really bad tension headache.
It reads like a stuttering problem. My inner voice says each word as an individual thing, rather than regular flowing speech. It takes me three times longer to read it than standard text would. The guy sounds like an absolute tool.
What would I make of this writing?
Why, I could make a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl!
The abbreviated words I don’t mind, but it takes no more effort to write ‘the’ and ‘life’ than ‘tha’ and ‘lyfe’.
And yes, it does indeed “conjure up the image of a black teenager” (nothing racist about that, it was a couple decades ago that some black leaders were attempting to legitimize “ebonics”), which is why it’s almost certain that the writer is a white kid- it’s too contrived. Girls who write Personal ads on the Net looking for a guy who’s a “straight-up thug” who’s “keepin it real” are usually not black or Hispanic.
Appears to be friggin’ illiterate to me.
“I am intentionally illiterate and I don’t care who knows it!”
This isn’t somebody making mistakes in writing, it’s somebody who’s somewhere between not even trying to write correctly and deliberately trying to be incorrect.
Thing is, if this is how he and his friends choose to communicate over facebook, let 'em. I don’t really care. Facebook isn’t the real world. I’m going to hold out some hope (for now at least) that they wouldn’t get away with this style in a school assignment or on a job application.
Looks like a text message from one of my kids.
Well yeah, obviously (someone has to invent a sarcastic smiley).
Gawd, let’s hope not. Although with some of the teaching styles these days…
I’ve always thought it’s an environmentally friendly language. Less strokes on the keyboard will mean it lasts longer and less of the earth’s precious resources are used on a replacement. Young people these days show an amazing commitment to Saving The Planet.
I might be barking up the wrong tree though…
Typical text-speak.
The first two entries look like they could have been entered using a phone, rather than a real keyboard. I also thought the person might be stoned.
Edited: After re-reading what I wrote, I meant to say that I thought the person was stoned when he wrote it, not that he should be taken out and executed. However, I am reaching the age where the latter is becoming increasingly more attractive.
Apparently the author is young, has dogs, is generally pleased with their current living situation, is religious, is devoted to family and friends, and recently suffered a romantic disappointment.
Unfortunately, said author choose to express those sentiments in a style somewhat less pleasant than fingernails on a chalkboard. Of course, by using that metaphor, I out myself as one of the grumpy old dudes. But I have better insurance and a lawn to chase kids off.
The last line makes me tend towards believing it is female, but, then again, that might be my bias, as most of the young people I have on Facebook are female. There are just not that many guys in my church youth group.
Still, the only thing “guy” about it is that it is trying to hard to impress by using “cool” misspellings. But that’s picking up amongst the female population, too.
Oh, and definitely white, as she’s frontin’.
It made me picture a female around 22-ish who is not too strong on book smarts. Could be any ethnicity; IME elements of AAVE are fairly widespread among the younger crowd so this person might have learned to talk/write that way from friends, pop culture, etc, and is not necessarily frontin’.
I just laughed out loud when I thought I read that the dogs just got done eating each other.
Other than that, there’s nothing remarkable about these posts.
–Acsenray, lovin lyfe god fam n tha homies
Thanks for the opines. This actually belongs to a relative that I see probably two or three times a year, but have never actually spent any time with. While I “get” the text speak, I suspect that the “regular” writing skills are not much better. I saw one message once in which the word “failing” was spelled “feeln.” While getting a job is still rough for a lot of people, I suspect that a lot of employers would dismiss an application written so poorly from the get-go. Again, I wasn’t really looking for a poll on guessing the demographics, but having said that. . .
Day-um!
Check.
Check. 21.
Check. 10th grade dropout
Check. Primarily White, but a good mix of not-so-White
Check. School is 80% Black.
Why are you reading my 20-year-old cousin’s wall?
- Lucky 13, jus chillin
You can only lead the horse to water…
Wow. Do I win the thread? 
I am somewhat ashamed to say that I understood that she was saying that “the dogs just got done eating, and other than that, she was just,” etc.
If I didn’t know people who wrote like that, I wouldn’t have understood that, as she didn’t put anything there between ‘eatin each other’ and ‘dat im goin 2 b in tha livin room’.
I wish I didn’t understand that. It hurts to read.