Are you Icelandic? Or is this something you picked up on your own. And contractions are not a fad, they are commonly used. As for xenoglossophobia, its not an irrational fear of such linguistics. Its simply the fact that nobody outside of very specific parts of the world write in such a way. And normally not when communicating with strangers online who never encountered this style of writing.

In what country do people still write english with eth? Or is this some kind of internet fad?

Never had a fitgirl install fail. Make sure your download was complete and not corrupted or missing required files. And make sure you have enough RAM not including swap. Some of these games use pretty heavy compression that uses a whole lot of RAM. And it seems swap sometimes causes the decompression to fail. Not sure why though.