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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

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

[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?

[trouvaille]

I don't even know modern text speak, much less telegraph shorthand.

[devoutish]

Telegraph shorthand wouldn't likely have 'hm' at all. Why don't you know text speak? You're a modern girl.

[trouvaille]

I don't use it. This is how I text, unless I'm drunk or tired or lazy and then it still doesn't look that different. If I want to communicate in shorthand I usually send pictures.

[devoutish]

But surely you've seen it, if it's so common?

[trouvaille]

I mean, a bit? I'm sure I could decipher it if someone texted me like that.

[devoutish]

tri it n see then. can u undrstnd this?

[trouvaille]

'Try it and see then, can you understand this?'

Still think I prefer whole words.

[devoutish]

Most of them are whole. You can't abbreviate all of them. Try and understand should have been spelled out correctly, I suppose.