You and ewe

Since I started using the internet, quite a few years back, I was able to see that people were starting to use ways to shorten certain phrases. Like, you know LOL, WYSIWYG, ROFL etc. Thinking about it I thought that this was probably due to the fact that writing on the small keyboard on a cell phone makes any way of shortening words and therefore reduce typing always welcome. But then I also figured out that these acronyms or whatever they are named were around before cell phones were introduced, so then my view changed, people just use them because they are lazy.

Now, I see nothing wrong with that, I am lazy too even though I have never used these shortened phrases, I am just not into them. after all I am old, I am used to writing with paper and pen, and my handwriting is not particularly good so using shortened words would have made my writing unreadable.

But I do think there are limits, now they are actually spelling words wrong without there being absolutely nothing to gain. Example, and one that really freaks me out, ewe and ewer for you and your. Now here all we have are two words that are spelled incorrectly with nothing to gain. I mean same amount of letters so same work to write them. And to me, it just looks ugly and I don't like it at all. If there was a reason for this, time saving, space on the post itself I could understand but there is nothing. This is not even laziness, it is trying to change the language.

I believe the next phase of this will be using longer spellings for common words, just to show off. So, yes I am ok with shortening words or phrases but I would like to know just what is gained by writing ewe instead of you.