Experts say people who communicate via computer are becoming increasingly informal - and sloppy.
E-mail is routinely strewn with typos, grammatical errors and various shortcuts, such as no capital letters. A student wouldn't walk into a professor's office asking a question using bad English. Some faculty members have also gotten a talking to. Maybe it's because I know that typos are recognizable as typos and not spelling errors,'' says Moreno, who works for an Internet startup and finds herself scurrying to answer more than 30 e-mails a day. But even they warn against misspellings and grammatical goofs.