It's the way yooh tell 'em

I despair for the future of the English language.

The latest violation comes from a friend of Jessica's, who sent a text message that include the phrase "have yooh got it?"

Now, this is just ridiculous on every level. Traditionally, the usage of you has simply been u in text messages. This is because it's quicker and saves space to represent a word that, when pronounced, is merely a single letter. All well and good.

But, to make the word longer - including a double-character which takes far longer on a phone keypad than two different characters because of the wait for the cursor to move on - is just completely pointless and unforgivable.

It is parents' evening soon. I shall bring it up there. Incidentally, what would be the correct way of using the apostrophe in this case? My thoughts are that it is as I have written it, with the apostrophe at the end, because it is surely plural possessive? They are implying many parents and that it is their evening. Moving the apostrophe to before the s would imply a single parent. If the entire evening is being held for the benefit of one parent from the hundreds who have children at the school, that would seem a horrendous waste of resources. And if we were to remove the apostrophe altogether, surely that would imply many parents but then the evening would not be properly possessed? So why do I never see it written this way?