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I wish they wouldn't. I always missed that feature from icq and I've never felt self-conscious about missteps and corrections. That is, after all, how talking w

• tetha 17y ago
  Even if we talk face to face, you will not be able to read my mind, and how my mind constructs whatever I try to say. Certainly, sometimes I will talk nonsense without enough thought in there, but this happens far less often than _thinking_ nonsense.
• megaduck 17y ago
  Unless you talk in a monotone, talking and typing are inherently different. Talking has a dramatically higher bandwidth, because you can alter the pitch, stress, and semantic meaning simultaneously. For example, sarcasm is trivial with spoken communication, and remarkably hard in written.