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[devoutish]

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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

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[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 ]

Comments

[voice]

[devoutish]

Haven't touched a dishrag since you got here, have you?

[voice]

[glassfall]

Actually, I have... but only when I have to.

[voice]

[devoutish]

Why? The machine does it all, doesn't it?

[voice]

[glassfall]

Apparently, there are some dishes that are too delicate for the contraption. I might appreciate the convenience of all this, but I'm not lazy.

[voice]

[devoutish]

Wouldn't want to put one's grandmother's fine china in the thing. Is that it?

[voice]

[glassfall]

Something like that.

[She never knew her grandparents, but hey. Details.]

[voice]

[devoutish]

Well, I haven't got any of that here, so I suppose I'm safe.

[voice]

[glassfall]

Neither have I, but that's still the gist of it.

[voice]

[devoutish]

Right, then. Dishwashers - have you tried the clothes washers yet?

[voice]

[glassfall]

Not yet. I know of them, however. Aren't they amazing?

[voice]

[devoutish]

Yeah. I don't trust them with my own clothes from home, but they work well with most other things. Wouldn't put shoes in 'em, though.

[He'd learned that the hard way.]

[voice]

[glassfall]

That's alright. I'll take cleaning shoes by hand if it means not having to wash dishes and such as often.

[voice]

[devoutish]

And yet it's nearly impossible to find a good shoe-shine kit in most shops, or a shoeshine boy on the streetcorner. It boggles the mind.

[voice]

[glassfall]

It is? How strange. You'd think there would be more.

[voice]

[devoutish]

They don't care about clean shoes, I suppose.

[voice]

[glassfall]

I wonder why no one has invented a machine for that.

[She can barely figure out typing, but you can bet that if she could make it, she would.]

[voice]

[devoutish]

Less demand, I suppose. More shoes are made of cloth now.

Re: [voice]

[glassfall]

That sounds strange. Why make shoes out of something so much less durable? Unless one prefers to ride instead of walking, I suppose.

[Cars? Those things are weird. And she doesn't trust bikes.]

[voice]

[devoutish]

In cars? Yeah. You'd need strong shoes for riding horses.

[voice]

[glassfall]

Yes, those. But I have yet to see many horses here.

[voice]

[devoutish]

They seem to be banned on the city streets. Very strange.

[voice]

[glassfall]

Perhaps they're worried that the cars will hit them.

[voice]

[devoutish]

They let people ride around on bicycles, don't they?

[voice]

[glassfall]

Those strange contraptions with two wheels? Yes. I wonder why they won't allow horses, then.

[voice]

[devoutish]

Yeah, those. Might be that they just don't like the horses relieving themselves in the road, eh?