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Cars are going to die. All of them. Eventually. But roads will persist, long after the last car is dead. Then, an alien world looking at Earth will see all the roads etched onto its surface, with no cars in sight, and interpret the roads as some form of hieroglyphics, a primitive attempt to communicate with other worlds.
@ceilingFANBOY: Wait... I don't get it... was this comment disemvowelled in an attempt to be funny? Because he mentioned disemvowelling? Either way, it further proves the point that disemvowelling has been so improperly used on this site that it lessens the intended effect.
Agreed. This whole txt-speech thing bothers me for some reason. I can't stand mangling the English language like that. When I send text messages they contain complete words, punctuated, and properly capitalized.
I understand that's too much work for some people so they slack off and abbreviate. But that's the reason people send text messages in this atrocious short hand. It isn't because people like reading it that way, it's because they hate to type. If your car is sending the message automatically, it can take the time to use complete words.
@Platypus Man: Thirded. Although it greatly helps when the iPhone does all the correcting/punctuating/capitalizing for you.
This half assed text speak was born the ugly child of the T9 era. Unfortunately BB's, iPhones, and other smartphones aren't cheap enough for the masses yet. And since most people will still have phones without full keyboards for quite a few more years, I don't see the trend going away anytime soon.
@G-Ram: See, I don't have a QWERTY phone or anything like that. And I hate T9. I know what I want to say and my phone does not. If I want to type "How are you?", I have to say 446669#277733#99966688111
And I do. Every time. I think most people who do this are just lazy and don't care, but there are some people who legitimately think that they should type like that, that it would make them "uncool" for actually typing words out.
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I've often shortened Tomorrow to Tom and have had some unsettling reply's.
02/04/09
:but the meeting's tomorrow.
>fck tom!
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You nailed it. How repulsive.
02/04/09
Agreed. This whole txt-speech thing bothers me for some reason. I can't stand mangling the English language like that. When I send text messages they contain complete words, punctuated, and properly capitalized.
I understand that's too much work for some people so they slack off and abbreviate. But that's the reason people send text messages in this atrocious short hand. It isn't because people like reading it that way, it's because they hate to type. If your car is sending the message automatically, it can take the time to use complete words.
02/04/09
Same here, my friend. It may take a little more work, but that's work that I'm willing to perform.
02/05/09
This half assed text speak was born the ugly child of the T9 era. Unfortunately BB's, iPhones, and other smartphones aren't cheap enough for the masses yet. And since most people will still have phones without full keyboards for quite a few more years, I don't see the trend going away anytime soon.
02/06/09
And I do. Every time. I think most people who do this are just lazy and don't care, but there are some people who legitimately think that they should type like that, that it would make them "uncool" for actually typing words out.