Prolly is prolly closer to how most people actually say it. Like "gonna," accepted vocabulary in comic books. In that respect, it's actually intelligent transcription.
The substitution of numbers in place of sounds or similar-looking letters does seem a bit queer, though. Even if it doesn't exactly warrant the rupturing of arteries.
Now, how is this subject at all GAY?
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One big thing that I think
enables misspelling -- particularly homonyms like "they're", "there", and "their" -- is that all of those words pass unmarked through a word processor program's spell checker.
When kids aren't taught how those words are built (or when they just don't pay attention), then there's no reason anyone can expect them to use the right ones.
"Could of", as in, "This sentence could of been written correctly," is one bastardization that I can't fucking STAND. It makes absolutely no sense. It
sounds like "could've", which is obviously a contraction of "could have", and that's a past-perfect-future-whatever tense of the verb "has".
"Of"? "
OF"??? How the hell does that word work in this situation? Apart from its sound, I can't even think of an excuse. Ignorance, I guess.
I've ranted about this before elsewhere. When I see professional correspondence, whether it's a resumé, a report from the condo management office, a contract from a landscaping company, etc., that has these kinds of ignorant misspellings and misuse of common words, I seriously wonder if they're going to "dot their i's and cross their t's", so to speak, when they actually do the work that they're being hired to do.
Stuff like that needs to be perfect. Absolutely 100%
perfect. Such documents, as a matter of course, and
unlike casual messages between friends, are supposed to be reviewed, revised, proofread, and reviewed & revised again before they get submitted. They should leave no doubt that they pay attention to every little detail. When the character of a person or company resides wholly on a piece of paper, they should not give any excuse to be turned down.
Over IM, or in emails between family & friends, I don't worry much about grammar and spelling. It's easier to write correctly in a professional setting if good spelling & grammar becomes a habit, though.
