Um, uh, I was just seeing if you were paying attention!
Yeah, that is it, glad to see you were paying attention.
Too true. My daughter has a book called “Drunken Goldfish,” which describes some of the more ridiculous things government research money has been spent on. I’m sure we’re all going to benefit strongly from the fact that scientists have proved that goldfish can get drunk (they know this, they say, because the fish fall over when the alcohol added to the water in their tank reaches a certain concentration). Here’s another: evidently modern science can now state, after careful, government funded research, that alcohol impairs sexual function in dogs. Let that be a lesson, you dog breeders out there! If you hope to breed your prize pooch, don’t buy him a few pints first to loosen him up! 
The book’s a hilarious read…but sobering as well, when you stop to think about it.
Redwolf
I figured you set up a test, Steve. How could I not take the bait? 
Better off than bieng a Erquise or Boranet (ah, that red-hiar boránette…)
But I say, you get a good tuant frist, you and yuor slily kniiiig! 
I will save some Ask A Librarian questions for you that I get from teenagers who use text messaging shortcuts as a means of expressing their true thoughts and feelings and oh yes, their questions.
The New English for contemporary people in the text messaging Pixyy’s post isn’t to far off the mark.
MrkaB
Is this the “Pig Latin” of the new century? Didn’t like the old one, I REALLY don’t like the new one.
Wtah’s teh matetr, Svete? Deos it gvie uoy vergito? 
No it’s not the Pig Latin of our day, but a new way of using language in a very shorten form.
Mark
We throw them out of the language, of course. That’s what they get for being pretentious. 
Igpay Atinlay oesntday akemay hingstay hortersay; itway akesmay hemtay ongerlay. Uhday.
I still remember one study I heard of on NPR, about how SUVs cause more damage in accidents than other personal vehicles. Well, DUH!! How much money did they spend on THAT study?? I could have told them that for nothing.
For some reason, that one really sticks in my mind. 
madfifer9
Wombat wrote:
And how exactly do we cope when several different words, each starting with the same letter, have exactly the same letters
the context of the word should do it:
just like desert and desert are spelt the same way, the meaning and pronuciation change with context
“And he crawled for days throughout the desert, to find the perfect desert”
That would be “dessert”, but I think we can desert being nitpicky.