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[devoutish]

ws lukng up infrmatn abt nu splngs usd n txt cmmncatn n fns n cmputrs etc n mst of wut I fnd ws fckng wingng abt kds toda bng lzy n nt noing hw to spl prprly as f ts wr a mdrn fckng invntn

tr r sum difs n nw tngs hv bn dn wi em tt we ddnt do n t pst wi r telgrfs ex t nos splly r clvr

inform8ion, 4warned, 2day

bt t ida ws crtnly nt invntd bi 21st cntry chldrn s py rspct 2 ur eldrs wo wr fr bttr t bng incmprhnsbl tn ur kds toda

wn i gt trd f mi tny tlfn kybrd im guna rite al mi txts lk ts




[OOC translation for people who don't hate themselves:

was looking up information about new spellings used in text communication on phones and computers etc. and most of what I found was fucking whinging about kids today being lazy and not knowing how to spell properly as if this were a modern fucking invention

there are differences and new things have been done with them that we didn't do much in the past with our telegraphs for example the numbers especially are clever

information, forewarned, today

but the idea was certainly not invented by 21st century children so pay respect to your elders who were far better at being incomprehensible than your kids today

when I get tired of my tiny telephone keyboard I'm going to write all my texts like this ]

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text

[catchacold]

n00b

text

[devoutish]

[Stymied immediately! He's googling this one, hold on.]

tnk t pnt im mkng s tt im nt

["Think the point I'm making is that I'm not."]

Voice;. Very obviously strained sounding

[heckblazer]

Oi. What did I do to deserve that?

Voice

[devoutish]

Hubris.

Text

[pale_blue_arrow]

dear tryhard please try LESS por favor

Text

[devoutish]

its nt s bd spnsh mn

["It's not so bad, Spanish Man."]

text;

[cleptes]

That was painful to the eyes.

The internet can be a truly terrible place for information sometimes.

text;

[devoutish]

Most of these are mine alone, ma'am. Not that I invented them, but I brought them with me.

[infomodder]

jsus chrst

[he tried]

[devoutish]

vry gd

[voice]

[glassfall]

[Cinders doesn't really like typing, if she can help it.]

... What.

[voice]

[devoutish]

Have you seen them complain about the spelling on the internet? I'm showing them how good they've got it.

[Text]

[sleight_of_hand]

Never do this again.

:|

[Text]

[devoutish]

You'll think before you complain next time, won't you?

text

[jojoceanman]

Not sure what's worse. That I can read your shitty typing or you're bragging about how shitty your typing is.

text

[devoutish]

It takes time to perfect.

[trouvaille]

I can't believe you don't just make a video of yourself chasing the young off your lawn with your cane and have done with it.

[devoutish]

I don't normally hit with the cane, out of fear of breaking it.

[snarkbot]

w8 until u see 25th c typing

[devoutish]

wndr hw mch f tt u gt fr us 2

text

[unbreaker]

you got way too much time on your hands, solomons

text

[devoutish]

That took very little time to write, which is rather the point, isn't it.

Text

[drivesadesk]

Congratulations. You have demonstrated that humans can be incomprehensible regardless of the era. Why are you doing this to our eyes?

Text

[devoutish]

Teaching u to 2 appreciative of what uve got.

text.

[glowsferatu]

if you werent still typing in black i would have thought i was back home

text. 1/2

[devoutish]

I think this does color as well.

audio

[carbonfrozen]

...the hell is this, a code or something?

[Because he only made out about, say, ten to fifteen percent of this whole mess. Not enough to know what the hell this guy's on about.]

audio

[devoutish]

Telegraph shorthand, actually.

video;

[hombrenuevo]

....... Is this important?

[ Chico might be bilingual, but shorthand in a foreign language is asking a lot. ]

video;

[devoutish]

Nah. It's not very interesting, as secret codes go.

text

[kestreldawn]

... what.

text

[devoutish]

*wt

text

[orphangirl]

What does any of this mean? Is it a code?

text

[devoutish]

If it's a code, I can't very well tell you what it means, can I.

[morethan084]

My eyes hurt from trying to read this.

Oh! Look! I spelled properly. ;)

[devoutish]

u've used the punctu8ion faces tt dnt look like faces, which is a far gr8er crime.

[zee_zatara]

That wasn't that bad. But then, I speak backwards, out loud, pretty regularly.

[devoutish]

This sort of text conversation is meant to be fast and convenient. You can't say the same about speaking backwards, can you.