[BreakABone]

Well, I always give Mike the benefit of the doubt, like he said he isn't a native speaker of English, so you only help him when you correct him.

I never did get the point on judging someone's intelligence based solely on how they speak though. I know some rather smart people who talk with all the net-sense, just because it's simpler.

Like I said I've become accustomed to using "ur" "2" (sometimes it's just so weird), 1, and all other nifty abbreviations, not because mesa so dumb can't spell full word, it's just so much easier to type a few characters less. Even if the save is just one or two. Same way I can call Xantar, Xanny even if they are one character shorter. But I take that as a sign of no one's intelligence.

Now if they make no coherent thought in their writing, that's a whole different ball game.