Inge Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 Make you feel old? and how many will now have never lived without it! The text message turns 20 today How texting made history but ruined our language - and plenty of marriages! just found it interesting. Quote
sunnyday Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 Thanks Inge Goodness 20 years ago eh - sure I sent/received my 'firsts' at a much later date! :blink: Quote
HappyMaz Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 Amazing. Although even in the days when I had a mobile without a proper keyboard I never ever used txtspk. Oh dear. I just did. Quote
Steve Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 Back in the olden days I worked with Ericsson when Vodafone had only just implemented the first UK mobile network. We used to use text back then (or SMS as we called it) to help get information about mobile networks back and forth. Nobody ever thought it would catch on with the public... 1 Quote
SueFinanceManager Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 Amazeballs eh....now there is a dialogue I wish hadn't caught on Quote
Guest Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 My family and friends laugh at me because I never use textspeak. All my texts are fully written and punctuated. (As you can probably tell I am a big fan of Lynne Truss). I know I'm a bit of a dinosaur, and texts can take me ages to compose, but I refuse to give in. Quote
Rea Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 I hate misspelled and grammatically incorrect texts with TXT and M8 and all the other rubbish, one of my friends does txtspk and it takes me ages to work it out! :huh: Although she does tend to speak the same way! Quote
Inge Posted December 3, 2012 Author Posted December 3, 2012 I must say i also never use text speak... but them my phone allows me to text using voice recognition and is remarkably accurate ... so much faster than typing or text speak!! Quote
Cait Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 My family and friends laugh at me because I never use textspeak. All my texts are fully written and punctuated. (As you can probably tell I am a big fan of Lynne Truss). I know I'm a bit of a dinosaur, and texts can take me ages to compose, but I refuse to give in. No I'm with you on that one! There's no way it can be misinterpreted if it's written out properly! Quote
SueFinanceManager Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 my daughter was laughing at my text today until I explained I was trying to text with my gloves on hence the utter drivel I typed 1 Quote
HappyMaz Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 Amazeballs eh....now there is a dialogue I wish hadn't caught on Totes agree, babez. I have threatened to unfriend/unfollow my friends if they start using this lingo on facebook and twitter and are over 20. 3 Quote
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