Frdm of spch?
They told us all the world would soon be tlkng lke ths. Well, they were wrong. SMS language came, ruled for a while and then people discovered the dictionary function on their cell phones.
But why some people still insist on giving readers of their e-mails and messages headaches by inventing vowel-less non-words, I don't understand. Just got a mail from a friend (who I used to consider quite literate) that probably destroyed two thousand cells from my retina. It read something like this: 'u wl b gld to know tht i am mried nw and lvng in th US...' .
It might be a pretentious way of judging people, but it takes me two seconds to completely lose any respect I had for anybody who can't make the basic effort of writing decent English. I mean, nobody's asking you to be Lynne Truss, but what does it take to write simple, basic English without resorting to linguistic short-cuts that don't make sense?
And while you are at it, MS Word has a function called spell-check. Do look into it.
posted by The Marauder's Map @ 2:54 PM
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5 Comments:
All Hail, The Second Coming Of The Bagchi!
TMM: Agree with your other points but can't believe you're endorsing MS Word's hideous spell-check facility.
Saptak: I attend book launches for free drinks all the time. But don't judge too harshly until you've actually been to one of those events. Often the noblest, most meaningful thing you can do is hold a wine-glass in one hand and send angsty SMSs with the other.
You can always pretend to SMS then. That's fun too, and still more meaningful than the conversation at those events.
except when i am among those present
You are so endearingly and unapologetically self indulgent, my dear duckie.
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