People don't seem as worried about spelling and grammar these days, and younger people see, generally, more interested in txt-speak.
Oh, be nice, not all younger people!
Although i don't think i'm quite comparable to many my age..i do have a habbit when sending texts, i used to always write a text with everything spelt correctly, except one..
Messages, why..? I always wrote, and still do at times, msgs, purely for the facts that i don't want to write messegers or massagers. I get confused!
But i must agree, SS does have a high standard of grammar and spelling, but i don't believe that we're smarter than the wider community..are we..?
G, i love the fact that people think because they went to uni or get fancy pieces of paper that say they're smart get all huffy and puffy when they're not the brightest tool in the shed. I recently got an award at school, i came second in my year (100 odd students) for maths, and i had a girl in my class that is very smart, always put 100% into it, nice girl but not so nice when she came third not first!
I have a brain, don't tend to use it much, but i know i'm not dumb. But it seems i come across as someone that isn't so tuned in. I think it's more to do with my friends and the area i live in than anything else. And i can't help but be pleased with myself and laugh at people that think that because they're parents paid for their education or go to uni that they are so smart, it cracks me up, i don't need a piece of paper to show the world that i have a brain.