shutterlife.net

It’s not hard to notice that websites and messageboards are slowly filling with people who feel obliged to write their messages in ‘txt spk’, as if they were writing a text message in shorthand.

I mean, I can understand people who write SMS messages on their phones like that because I find them incredibly difficult to type on, and one of the reasons I still own a Nokia phone with worn plastic, crack screen, and it’s one redeeming feature - a fold-out keyboard! But last time I looked, most computers came with a full size QWERTY keyboard, and even people who hunt and peck can type full sentences reasonably speedily on them!
Of course, as I write this, I realise that the majority of people who are writing ‘txt spk’ style online, are younger than me, and this whole entry is just me realising that I am getting old. I only hope they are able to form proper English sentences when they are using traditional, more analogue forms of writing.

This entry was posted on Friday, June 30th, 2006 at 8:03 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.