Lazy writing is a pain for readers

I deal with this a lot at work as a software developer and project manager. We also all deal with it on a daily basis on forums and in IM conversations.

The flow of reading does not just apply to formal writing (books, newspapers, blogs) it applies pretty much everywhere there is a written word.

When such people, some of them professional clients, use text speak it can take an age to parse what they are saying. Then each time you go back and read again the message you have to spend the time to re-parse the text. The result is; them being, for want of a better word, lazy as writers just means all of the readers have to do the work instead.

Seeming as there is more often only one author and several consumers of the text (including multiple times reading by one person) the onus has moved from the author to do the work once to each and every one of the readers to do the work several times.

It also multiplies the work needed by the number of times each reader has to revisit that text and read it again. It is largely this that frustrates me about ‘lazy’ writing.

Who are you to say I and everyone else should do the work, you are the one who wants to get a point across. If you cannot be bothered to put in some effort yourself as an author of a piece of text why should I as a reader put in any more effort.

Which requires less effort to read and do something useful with?
pls cd u fx prb wiv invcng sys b4 mon
Or
Please could you fix the issues that we have found in the invoicing system before Monday the 8th.

With text speak there is no "correct" way to write it, so you cannot even get used to it a lot of the time. The above could come as:
pse cld U fcks pbwith inv sstm bfr mon
or
ps cud u fic pblm wf in sys

A large part of having a common definition of spelling and grammar is to make it easy to parse and for the meaning to be easy to understand. Skilled writers know how to play with those rules and from that we get authors such as Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke, Terry Pratchett