Collected Thoughts

I get being annoyed by this--it's an affectation, I think, and when one isn't amused by an affectation, it can be very annoying indeed.

Personally, I'm amused by it (people can be so easily amused in so many different ways, don't you know), and that's why I do it, not because it's easier to type.

I agree with witchqueen that it is handy to use "Clex" to refer to the relationship between Clark and Lex--when you're *not* talking about Clark and Lex as individuals.

I also like how it's a dumb little thing that people within fandom get. Like when you have a club as a kid, and people get code names and there's a club handshake and everything. It's just what happens in most fandoms, and I understand that it could be done less goofily and thereby annoy fewer people if the "code" words were just pairing initials like Cl/Le, but I personally like reading stuff, abbreviations or whatever, that I can hear in my head. Clex is much more pronounceable than Cl/Le.

And "Clitney" is preposterous, yes. That's why I like it. I wouldn't ever use that word when I wanted to talk about the pairing seriously, though.