Hasn’t it?
I emailed IT tech service at my job (Chevron) last week with a problem, and got a reply written in “text talk”, asking me to call back.
I don’t remember all of it, but he used “u” for you, etc.
The service is located in New Zealand, by the way. I don’t know if that makes a difference. More casual in business, maybe?
Oh, well.
Peace,
mangeorge
Well, tech people these days certainly aren’t expected to be able to communicate in written language, although those I telephone seem to do OK in speech.
I haven’t talked to any offshore call centers lately. If I had, I’d probably be bitching like hell.
It was an e-mail, not the next novel of the century.
That fellow is just one example. I’ve noticed the practice in other instances too.
Kiwis do speak english, I’m sure. Except maybe those cool 
guys with all the tattoos who mean-mug you. 
Maoris, I think. I want to do that.
O i c wh u mene
But it was a business email.
Now go to your room. Tell your mother what you’ve done when she gets home.
mangeorge, who thinks we voted down the hyphen.
Not according to wiki and wiki is always right:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail
My mom kicked me out last month. 
Maybe she didn’t like my hyphen use.
I meant those of here, on the venerable SDMB.
But I might just bow to wiki. 
I do love that site.
One does not smoke pot in one’s mom’s bathroom. 
Punctuation, too. About all that seems to be in use is the ? and then there’s often about 50 of them, used in the place of !'s.
We know, don’t we, that I’m not being negative about this. More like wryly observant.