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I've been doing this lately. But only because I can't stand my phone's keyboard. Actually, if I'm not writing professionally or for public consumption, I do far
by Retra 10y ago
I've been doing this lately. But only because I can't stand my phone's keyboard. Actually, if I'm not writing professionally or for public consumption, I do far more egregiously 'fun' things with my writing to make it more touch-screen friendly:
Convenience:
probably -> prolly
__ing -> __n
__ed -> __d
I'm -> I
and -> n
something -> summat
Purposeful misspellings:
your -> yoor
maybe -> mebes
work -> werk
word -> werd
programming -> porkgramn
morning -> mern
And randomly drop unneeded words.
"The car needs washd, prolly do next fri mebes if I not busy porkgramn summat fo werk."
- grahamburger 10y ago"Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding." [0] http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2013/01/28 http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2013/01/28
- Retra 10y agoIt's hard to really jump on that line of thought without more information. Plenty of misunderstanding occurs because people make unwarranted assumptions about what some words have been employed to mean on the basis of familiarity alone. I know a few people who seem to communicate entirely in terms of cultural signals, propaganda, platitudes, and slogans. This is the easiest stuff to understand, but it also doesn't offer anything novel. If I'm going to say something mundane, I see no harm in asking someone to play a game to understand it. Even if you've failed to understand, there's no real consequence for it.