"r u sure" - Language issues

This post is not programming specific, but please bear with me...
A poster recently reacted (in a manner described by another as being a "flame") to the style of language used in a previous post, calling it "idiot speak". The sentance "r u sure?" caused a bit of a stir in that the non-use of dictionary English was frowned upon.
This got me wondering about the relationship between natural language and programming language, and specificaly about the influence of contemporary use of language on programming style.
The original poster of "r u sure" may either be very efficient or he may be lazy, and his code may be agile or it may be a sticky mess. On the other hand, the objectioning plaintiff in this case may either be meticulous or cynical, and his code could be elegant (if not eloquant) or it could be bloated. These personal differences emphasize an underlying difference in values and perception, and these factors may greatly influence one's coding style. The extent to which this influence is exerted may finally determine the qualities of a compiled program. It may ultimately be said that 'a person who uses language such as "r u sure?" in daily conversation is more likely to write faster but weaker code than a person whom strives for the correct usage of a natural language in conversation'.
I would say that if code were written in Shakespearean days, the language structure would most certainly have been impossibly tedious compared to what it is today. The underlying logic structures would have been less robust than they currently are because many modern algorythms are based on mathematical discoveries made after that time. One wonders what the databases would look like if written in an ancient language such as Latin or Egyptian.
I would like to hear your comments.

IMHO those youngsters are used to that silly SMS and
chat speak, so that'sI think this is a bit of a misconception. SMS is slang not a "new language" I agree with that.
thus it is actually a slang dialect from a particular region. In fact it is
worse than that because SMS actually seems to devlove into a
language that only the two people communicating can understand. I disagree with that; IMHO sms-notation was born because of the maximum
length of the message that could be sent: 160 characters or so. People
were quite creative in substituting single digits for an entire syllable that
sounded similar. In the Dutch language people are over-creative with that,
e.g. 'FF' stands for 'just a moment': 'FF' being a shortand for 'effen', (multiple effs)
which is sort of slang for 'eventjes', which basically translates to 'just a moment'.
Similar things happen to just phonetic parts of words (i.e. not syllables),
i.e. 'w8' means 'wacht' ('wait' in English, the similarity is just a coincidence).
So in SMS speak 'wait for a moment' in Dutch is translated to 'w8 FF'.
When enough room for editing a proper text is available I find this SMS
stuff terrible. I do think though that youngsters are more familiar with this
type of notation and I think they will go further than I just sketched.
kind regards,
Jos

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