It worked for me! I was able to decipher this headline from the Yahoo! Messenger blog thanks to my second-grade teacher, Mrs. Belcher, who taught me a bit about reading phonetically:
Sayonara! Of course, that’s what the writer meant! I admit that I might not be the target audience for this blog (though I do use Messenger), and I confess that I’m terribly unhip. So, maybe that’s why I was unaware that this new spelling had crept into the popular lexicon. Still, I think that if you want to reach a wide audience maybe conventional spelling is the way to go. Just maybe.
