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Can we please stop using early 2000s "txtspeak" to signal text conversations? Does anyone still write "ppl" or "to" => "2" in the era of autocorrect?
by akavi 11y ago
Can we please stop using early 2000s "txtspeak" to signal text conversations?
Does anyone still write "ppl" or "to" => "2" in the era of autocorrect?
- privong 11y ago> Does anyone still write "ppl" or "to" => "2" in the era of autocorrect? Yes. I still receive messages from many people (who I know have smartphones) with "u", "ur", and so on.
- degenerate 11y agoI do this, and some of my friends still do too. It's nostalgic fun for those of us that can read it just fine. Of course, I only type like that with people I already know. r u going 2?
- Roodgorf 11y agoNostalgic fun is a good way of putting it. I find myself doing this sometimes with friends as more or less a joke. If people outside my closer group of friends do it I actually find it pretty annoying.
- tluyben2 11y agoEveryone I know does this and it annoys me no end. Worse; a lot actually put those 'abbreviations' in actual serious letters (resumes.......) as well. And these are not stupid people, just young. Edit: and actually, with autocorrect people (all ages) are made lazy enough to leave the wrong word if the autocorrect misfires. Leaving the reader to guess the correct word altogether.
- fwn 11y agoYou mean twitterspeak?
- Tideflat 11y agoThe people that still use flip phones do. Not everyone is on the forefront of technology.
- dogma1138 11y agoIt's a good way to see who's been texting before phones allowed you to bypass the 140chat limit and reconstruct multiple messages into a single one. Additionally it's also a good indicator of some one who uses Twitter way to much and has either polluted their autocorrect with this shorthand or have way too much confidence in their grammar and spelling skills and just hove autocorrect off.