Hi there. How are you going? Have you ever noticed a chat amongst native speakers at a noisy place had communicated with one another quite well without any problem? I think English is one of the consonant-based languages, whilst Japanese is one of the vowel-based ones. What do you reckon?

From my experience, I always feel that native speakers are easily able to catch the points what other native speakers are trying to say even if they are surrounded by noisy environments. Why? Because they at least need to get the hang of consonants rather than vowels in order to communicate. For instance, have you every thought about why some native speakers typing a shortened text message instead of a complete sentence? Yes, there are some reasons here. First, the reason being is the word limit, I guess. The second reason is that they presumably think vowels should be omitted to make the sentences much simpler, sharper, and punchier.

Here are some examples, but there are lots of others. Thx = Thanks. C u = See you. But they are informal, so if you are writing or typing formal letters or messages, then complete sentences need to be written or typed. Not just shortened sentences or phrases, you can also use abbreviations such as 2 for 'too' or 'to', 4 for 'for', R for 'are', Y for 'why', etc., which are based upon the pronunciation of their corresponding digit or letter. Personally, I don't like these sorts of abbreviations, and therefore I prefer using formal and complete sentences.

What's your opinion? Please let me know in the comments.