re: #35 Rightwingconspirator

Texting.
I mean texting, period.
That is the bane. Its lazy. All these high speed connections, gigabytes of storage and a keyboard in every device and yet we need to compress our spelling? I’m not buying that theory.

When you’re typing with thumbs on your Sidekick on a bus and trying to quickly get a point across to someone else on a cell phone, laboriously spelling everything out is not really a priority. It’s not lazy. You just can’t touch type on phones, and with Twitter’s short message limit, abbreviations are the name of the game. I personally try to avoid the alphabet-soup gibberish vibe on Twitter, but I’ll still abbreviate.

And I’m saying this as a guy who won regional spelling bees in grade school and plays Scrabble and Bookworm all the time.