EA Oceania - Knight of the deep too good?

[Agrajag]

Besides, you're on the internet. You should expect a certain level of short-hand.

Not when the forum comes equipped with an ignore user button
And besides, that argument is also valid for "you're on the internet, you should expect people to post goatse* all over the place", and I'm sure none of us would support or allow that.
*-If you don't know, I really suggest you do not try and check it out for yourself. Try Urban Dictionary for information.

Also, if you were going to design a new language from scratch, would you really use words like "through" when "thru" is perfectly sufficient?

Well, the difference in negligible, it takes a very short time to type the few extra characters, and its not like you use "through" as every other word.
And you are more than welcome to switch to Hebrew, we've got almost no wasted characters
(Then again, if you don't know a word in Hebrew, good luck with trying to figure out how to read it without nikkud {which is the only kind of word you can expect outside of children's books})