On 13/07/14 14:15, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 23:58:28 +1200 > Chris Bannister <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Chris, > >> Sorry, it was my idea of a joke. > > No need to apologise. I guessed you were making a point humorously. > Your post was the ideal message to reply to from my PoV. I should have > put a smiley in to denote I'd seen the joke. > > Text speak came about for similar reasons, I suppose; High cost of > texts (in the early days) and limited texting line length. So, > it was a way of getting longer messages into limited space. Nowadays, > both restrictions are, largely, gone but 'txtspk' persists in some > quarters. >
Cobblers. Txtspk came about because kids (the main users of the form) are lazy, and their thumbs get tired. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:[email protected] Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
