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To me text speak is fine - on phones.

On a forum it says to me the person really cant be arsed to make an effort over their post, which then makes me wonder why I should make the effort to try and decipher it or bother to reply to it.

Text speak can make something pretty incomprehensible. Which makes it hard for people to know what to reply to.

ps. jonboy, did TSM ever reply on the fizzlation automation? :P

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I hate text speak. It drives me bonkers.

I work in IT so I'm used to acronyms, however I've been on two Cisco VOIP training course in the last month or so. Its acronymmungus.

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I don't really understand why people use it indiscriminately. I couldn't even do it properly even if I wanted to as I don't really know how to to be honest. Quicker to just spell it correctly than trying to work how to do it in txtspk :P .

Why is it fine on the phone? Surely if it's incomprehensible on a monitor it's going to be the same on a phone screen .

Another thing I hate is getting PMs or Emails without any sort of salutation. It's not so bad if it's not the first contact but when it's the initial contact .

Cheers
Ben

Originally Posted by 21QUEST

Why is it fine on the phone? Surely if it's incomprehensible on a monitor it's going to be the same on a phone screen .

Because a phone is usually small screen, small keyboard and older phones confined your character limit.

The forums arent subject to those constraints so it made sense to do it on a phone where there was a need but not on a forum like this with people using full sized keyboards, monitors etc.

Thats why I said phone - fine it makes sense and there was a reason for it. Here there isnt imo. :P

If at the end of it all the party you are trying to communicate with gets the full gist of what you are trying to relay I can't see the problem with using modern idiom's,after all we have been using abbreviations since the beginning of the English language and many of them aren't even in English. I being of the older generation maybe don't agree with it, but I do accept it/them as modern usage of
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Originally Posted by lynw

Because a phone is usually small screen, small keyboard and older phones confined your character limit.

Now I think of it , that'll be even worse. Atleast with a monitor you are usually sat down and also see a lot more of the txtspk(had to double check the spelling) in one go

Originally Posted by lynw

The forums arent subject to those constraints so it made sense to do it on a phone where there was a need but not on a forum like this with people using full sized keyboards, monitors etc.

When you are up against some very fast typing folks, it does make sense

Originally Posted by lynw

Thats why I said phone - fine it makes sense and there was a reason for it. Here there isnt imo. :P

What ever :P



Really I can sort get what you are saying but even with my cheap phone I try not to be lazy as I think it's still bad form.

All said justmacsv650 makes a good point as we all seem to have our own personal 'Don'ts' and wotnots :P

If at the end of it all the party you are trying to communicate with gets the full gist of what you are trying to relay I can't see the problem with using modern idiom's,after all we have been using abbreviations since the beginning of the English language and many of them aren't even in English.

Cheers
Ben

ps: justmacsv650, I believe you meant to say Roman Numerals. No?

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