*nods* I completely agree. I kept a journal from when I was 6 as an assignment in school, and although the spelling was (extremely) atrocious, the grammar and such was mostly correct, though I wasn't that good at complex sentences. (Actually I made a journal to type it all up in as a record for myself: saturn_no_ouji, the earliest entry was from January 4th, 1993 (http://www.livejournal.com/users/saturn_no_ouji/1993/01/04/), four days before my 7th birthday.) I think that "little speak" is not only artificial but also pretty annoying. (Now that I look at it, I had pretty bizarre spelling. I'd misspell almost everything but then random "big" words I would spell correct, like "tomorrow", "birthday", "weather", etc. Hmmmm.)