OMG! RU textlish literate?

Yesterday's Boston Globe has a funny editorial on the pervasiveness of "txt-msg lingo is replacing stndrd english in student academic pprs."

"1 yng friend of rs recently sent us a hand-ritten thank-u note. we were thrilled at 1st but her spelling wuz awful b/c deres no spellcheck for pen and ppr. same ish w/ txting. ppl get uzd 2 slang and 4get the real words."

Any teachers out there experiencing this in your classrooms? Personally, the copy editing part of my brain is too strongly wired -- even in emails, I resist the urge not to capitalize or to revert to texting slang.