Oh my goodness. Such controversy!
I would think the use of "lol" would be more annoying any day than the use of "yew", but that's just me. I have been known to type a "lol" here and there on occasoion, but I try to do it as rarely as possible! lol!
The idea that "yew" would be a text to speech software glitch is most interesting. I do have dragon diction naturally speaking, but it is an old version I happened to spot at the goodwill and I bought it for like $3.99 or so. It has been sitting in the back of my car now for months. I never bothered to bring it in.
(K I just went out to get it. It was $2.00 and there is a big banner on the box that says, "New version! Now supports Windows 97!" The CD says it is version 2.0, so yeah that's going back a ways. Maybe I'll install it just so I can see how does with the word, "antidisestablishmentarianism." If it can handle that, then it must be a good program! But who knows if it will work on Windows 7?)
But I digress! I suppose there is a far more obvious question, which is, "Why is an award-winning author tying YEW instead of YOU?" I get this one often.
I am quite ambulatory. I can move my arms and fingers and legs and feet, though it is quite painful to do so. The "YEW" is really more of an autistic thing, I think. I didn't want to comment on it, but I hate to see this squabbling.
Chalk it up the autistic, oddballl, sideways way I see the world.