y cnt u spel rite?

What is that garble? I see letters. Oh, there's another one! They probably mean something. I must be too old to have that level of cool.
I haven't the patience to decode the popular way of writing. Is it really faster to eliminate vowels, when you've spent your educational years learning how to use them? I assumed it was laziness on the author's part, but it takes such effort to translate the symbols, that maybe it is indicative of a higher intellegence that can come up with that stuff. Or maybe its just shorthand, that class in junior high I never took. Really wish I had taken typing though, but at the time everyone else was in that class and I was a closet rebel.
Sure, I scre]](that was my kitten) I screw up a lot, but when I know it, I phone my neighbor to get the correct spelling. Thats not lazy is it? Dictionary, Spellcheck, Neighbor, its all the same. And for the many words I misspell unknowingly, I gamble that either it will go unnoticed, or the reader is cool enough to figure it out.