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Don't forget about the difference in accent that often made people spell thing differently, such as 'rediculous', people assumed that's the correct spelling because it sound correct (especially with accent).

In my cases, my grammar was more due to learning BSL when I was in a deaf boarding school and was the only one who wasn't waggling their hand like an angry italian, and sign langauge is basically like text speech.

A full sentence would go like this "Hello Tom, how are you? did you see the Ranger games last night?"

But in sign language (and not just BSL) it's shorten to;

"Hello Tom, How you? See Ranger games last night?"

So yes, quite a lots of deaf people will sound stupid when they try to talk or write, I know a deaf lawyer who was raised in an BSL environment for half his childhood, the court kicked him out because they though he was taking the piss by trying to speak in a 'gang slang' (was a gang-related trial).

I use shorthand quite a bit, and you have a similar thing there. Some words are always followed by other words (a bit like Q always comes with a U) so you miss them out.

When I'm at work I won't hear or write "Ladies and gentlemen" at the start of a speech, I'll put down "LAG" on my book. Actually, I won't even put that, I'll put the symbol for that.

But when I write it out later I convert it back. Learning shorthand made me re-think a lot of things about language. Would love to learn another language (I know everyone says that) because I think it might do the same again.