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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 ]

Comments

[devoutish]

I liked adventure novels as a kid. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

[trouvaille]

See, I preferred those if I was reading period pieces. Or Treasure Island, or something. I think modern audiences are reading Austen and that sort of thing as escapism, which doesn't work as well if balls, ball gowns and pushy match-makers are sort of your life. Whereas I have absolutely considered running away to be a pirate.

[devoutish]

I liked that one, too. A mate introduced me to it in school.

[trouvaille]

Did you read Robinson Crusoe? I tried reading Waverley, as well, someone told me there were beheadings and it was so boring and draggy and he was so obviously making up How To Write A Story as he went that I couldn't even finish it.

[devoutish]

Robinson Crusoe as a kid, yes. Waverly when I was a bit older,
15 maybe. That one's more of a history than an adventure story.

[trouvaille]

I liked the format of Crusoe - I'm more for short fiction and poetry, so the epistolary thing worked for me quite well. ( which is why she was reminded of waverley, and how boring it was, and how she narrowly didn't toss it across the room. COME ON, WALTER SCOTT. ) As far as Waverley goes, from an academic perspective I can appreciate the invention of the historical novel as a genre, but from a reader's perspective I was fucking bored.

[devoutish]

Haven't got that academic perspective myself, nor the head for poetry. Of course, I don't read many novels these days.

[trouvaille]

I've been publishing poetry for a few years and I used to fuck lit professors. It all sort of rubs off on you a bit if you're around it enough.

[devoutish]

Is your mouth like this in your poetry as well?

[trouvaille]

I called my first collection, written between 18-21, 'Barely Legal'. What do you think? ( welp. ) Smart interplay of subject and vocabulary makes an impact.

WHOOPS I missed this

[devoutish]

And I'm sure it was just the impact you were going for, yes.

helo

[trouvaille]

I'm proud of my work, yes.

[devoutish]

Going to publish it here?

[trouvaille]

I've thought about it. Haven't come to any grand conclusions as yet.

[devoutish]

Surely you know they'd buy anything an imPort wrote.

[trouvaille]

Yeah, it'd be more likely here that someone would be motivated to leak my nom de guerre to make the publishing house more money out of it. I don't like the risk.

[devoutish]

What, you wouldn't use your own name?

[trouvaille]

I never have, no, I'm not trying to trade on my connections to get famous. I write poetry whether anyone else ever reads it or not. It's nice that some people do read it. I don't need that so badly I want to fuck up the rest of my life for it.

[devoutish]

Goodness. That's a lot of weight to put on poetry.

[trouvaille]

I don't want my work made into a novelty act because of where I come from. I think that's fair.

[devoutish]

Yeah. That I can respect.

[trouvaille]

It's not that big a secret who I actually am when I write, at home, the connections are there to be made, there's just less motivation to do it so no one bothers me.

[devoutish]

Well, best of luck here then, I suppose.

[trouvaille]

I'll probably just leave it.

[devoutish]

Hm.

Here, how would you abbreviate something like that?