And telegraph operators can spell also. No silly abbreviations.
U R SO RITE ! :)
Seriously ... my high-school daughter tells me there is now a substantial problem with youngsters who supposedly can *only* write in text-message abbreviations or "l33tsp33k" and have developed some kind of mental block against producing plain English. She, a skilled writer, is annoyed with them, of course.
Accompaying this is an inability to think about language. At one point she was trying to refer to the band "U2" but her interlocutor (in a chat room) could only see "U2" as "you too" and communication failed.