Grammar revisited

[Steven_Draker]

"anal-retentive" is commonly abbreviated to "anal" ... or so I was told when texting

[Phil_musc]

Galahad - Thanks, I'll remember that the next time I'm waiting for my customer service representative in India who will speaking with me via a cell-phone with a crap connection. No disrespect to India - loved it when I was there. Just sayin'.

 

Thanks, also to Max - now I understand the finer points of text-speak. And Steven, well you've just simply saved the day with that one! To think that my constipation was mere anal-retentiveness, er, anal. Lol (wait - no - didn't mean it) Sorry, Guys.

[instudiocity]

I don't know about anyone else, and maybe because it's that I learned touch typing on a MANUAL typewriter,

but it takes a WHOLE LOT OF CONCENTRATION for my to type "M gd. How R U?" "I'm good, how are you?" is

so much easier, at least on a typewriter. Must be those new contraptions with the little keys, that I can only use

with one finger.

Just as long as it's ONE FINGER, go ahead, use me!

[instudiocity]

My phone has only a number keypad and so I have to think a lot to use it hit each key a couple times to get the right letter.

 

Plus I think faster than I type even though I do touch type. So as fast as I can think or type "Y o u ' r e" I can also translate it on the go to "u r" as quickly and other times

I actually type out the whole proper spelling but then go back and shorten it to "u r" so it fits in a text message length because a single text short concise text can be so much easier to read on a small phone, especially while on the go, and one doesn't have to worry about them being split and delivered out of sequence etc.

 

But speaking of LOL, call me a curmudgeon but I'm weary of that phrase. Of course I've been typing and reading computer text since I was a wee kid in the usenet days.

People use it excessively and as a replacement for so much more than Laughing Out Loud. Like what is wrong with saying:

uhuh, or ha!, or OK, or no!, really?, hee, BS or any of the other old fashioned phrases? Many of which LOL doesn't even seem to really fit.

[Steven_Draker]

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