Firstly, I was born in the mid-1980s. I have no idea where that places me in the generations, however I refuse to be a representative of the so-called stewards of bad spelling, otherwise perhaps known as the major revolutionists leading the failure of the English language in proper.
Whether or not it is by accident, incorrect spelling is still incorrect. Acknowledge it perhaps as a mistake (i.e. sometimes it is difficult to pick up spelling errors in proofing especially when our mind usually only picks up on the first and last few letters of each word), but that does not validate its existence.
I was always advised - even at a tertiary level - that accurate spelling on your CV could be the difference between making the shortlist, or the bottom of the bin. I still maintain that view.
Short forms, abbreviations and "txt speak" has its place. In business communications, the latter is obviously unacceptable.
It's an amazingly sad irony and almost bordering on absolute sheer and embarrassing hypocrisy that the carriers of the language that purport to be the global lingua franca are in fact disgustingly poor caretakers of said language, in almost direct and stark contrast to non-English speakers who (by and large) take far more pride and care in their own respective languages.
:mrgreen:
