I do use some abbreviations, sometimes, but most of the time the difference between the 10 seconds it takes me to type a phrase in full and the 5 seconds it takes to type it in txtspk form just isn't actually that important to me. I suppose if the text you were sending was "HELP am bng et by lion" it might be important to save those couple of seconds, but what if the person you were texting didn't understand and had to text back to say "WTF r u talkin bout?" -- what then? I mean, by then you'd have been well and truly eaten. At least, that's how I look at it. A semicolon in time saves death-by-lion, I always say.
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Date: 2007-04-26 12:56 pm (UTC)I do use some abbreviations, sometimes, but most of the time the difference between the 10 seconds it takes me to type a phrase in full and the 5 seconds it takes to type it in txtspk form just isn't actually that important to me. I suppose if the text you were sending was "HELP am bng et by lion" it might be important to save those couple of seconds, but what if the person you were texting didn't understand and had to text back to say "WTF r u talkin bout?" -- what then? I mean, by then you'd have been well and truly eaten. At least, that's how I look at it. A semicolon in time saves death-by-lion, I always say.