do you bother using full spelling/punctuation in text communiation?

Graces7 · 06-08-2018 03:56PM

Gwynplaine wrote: »

I'm intrigued. How have you managed this?

Silence is golden.. I use email mostly and no one has my phone number .Only switch it on to make calls.. Got fed up of unnecessary calls...Do not know how to open messages either so it is email or nothing folks!

Badly Drunk Boy · 06-08-2018 04:13PM

I do. Mainly because I like to do things correctly ( :pac: )

I don't have a smartphone, which makes it more difficult, but I'm stubborn. I still use commas and apostrophes on my cheapo Nokia phone...

Sofiztikated · 06-08-2018 04:29PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Not anymore you're not but back in the day you were hence the birth if text speak.

Txt speak goes back further than T9 messages, twas horrid popular back in the MSN messenger days too, along with l33t spk, and what not.

Apparently it goes back as far as telegrams.

Gwynplaine · 06-08-2018 05:10PM

Graces7 wrote: »

Silence is golden.. I use email mostly and no one has my phone number .Only switch it on to make calls.. Got fed up of unnecessary calls...Do not know how to open messages either so it is email or nothing folks!

I admire that. Almost off the grid. As my mother used to say "what did everyone do before we all had phones". And that was 10 years ago, when most people only had button phones.

Graces7 · 06-08-2018 06:58PM

Gwynplaine wrote: »

I admire that. Almost off the grid. As my mother used to say "what did everyone do before we all had phones". And that was 10 years ago, when most people only had button phones.

Thank you. I have 2 cell phones; got the second when it became clear ESB were not going to arrive in the foreseeable future to connect the power so that one could be being charged by the kindness of a neighbour. Both are tesco who have excellent pay as you go call rates. One was E10 and no camera etc which is fine, the second E15 with camera. Perfectly adequate to my needs.

The neighbour who kindly recharged the phones for me was on the ferry last week, proudly showing me his new phone, "Like yours," he said. When I asked how much? E140.

I go back to phones you dialled on! YOU know, the numbers in a circle..and to an age where almost no one had a home phone.. But have the communications I need for the life I live.

EPAndlee · 06-08-2018 07:00PM

I just throw in a few letters and let autocorrect do the rest, sometimes it makes sense and sometimes it doesn't

rob316 · 06-08-2018 07:00PM

No problem with people using text speak, I don't use it but it's grand between 2 people. I can't stand text speak and zero punctuation on social media though.

Shenshen · 06-08-2018 10:27PM

Sofiztikated wrote: »

Txt speak goes back further than T9 messages, twas horrid popular back in the MSN messenger days too, along with l33t spk, and what not.

Apparently it goes back as far as telegrams.

l33t I actually have a soft spot for. Mostly because of the reason for its existence - make what you're saying intelligible to humans, but gibberish to any automated filters it may run through. l33t actually takes more effort to write than to read, while text speak is the opposite.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 06-08-2018 10:38PM

Yes, telegram used cld for could, cmg for coming, abt for about, nu for knew, tnx for thanks, and many more.

Text speak is far from recent.

Sofiztikated wrote: »

Txt speak goes back further than T9 messages, twas horrid popular back in the MSN messenger days too, along with l33t spk, and what not.

Apparently it goes back as far as telegrams.

Sofiztikated · 06-08-2018 11:14PM

Shenshen wrote: »

l33t I actually have a soft spot for. Mostly because of the reason for its existence - make what you're saying intelligible to humans, but gibberish to any automated filters it may run through. l33t actually takes more effort to write than to read, while text speak is the opposite.

I can generally speed read l33t, and txt handily enough.

Emojis have me lost.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 07-08-2018 07:07PM

Using u rather than you is perfectly acceptable. I would classify what most people do in messages as a form of shorthand.

Robsweezie · 08-08-2018 01:29PM

''This is an email formal warning about your misconduct at work''

''OMG totes soz wont happen agan''

languagenerd · 08-08-2018 01:44PM

I don't use txtspk and always include punctuation, but in casual conversations (like Whatsapp) I type how I speak. So things like "yeah" and "nah", "ye" for you plural, "cause" for because, shorter sentences like "You going?", "Dunno what the plan is.", "That it?", "Got those tickets earlier." etc.

I don't see a need for full perfect grammar for texting, unless it's a formal situation, like a work issue. And I know some people hate them, but I think emojis are useful for indicating tone - as the tone of a text message is so easy to misinterpret - or acknowledging a message that doesn't need a further reply.

do you bother using full spelling/punctuation in text communiation?

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