Supercalifragalistic-txt-pialidocious

[j4]

"It was so nerve wracking. My hands started to shake. I couldn't get my apostrophe"

[thanks to brrm for the link]

I used to have a phone which didn't have a semicolon. When complaining about this to other people I found that they were generally more sympathetic if I told them I needed it for winking emoticons; actually, though, I just like semicolons. I once got 3 house-points for "good punctuation", and I think that was mostly because of the semicolons. It's all gone to pot now, though. I blame kitteh, though the rot probably started setting in when ox.test represented the cutting edge of timewasting technology. Might it be coffee time now, please?

Comments

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

I sympathize about the semicolon. My texts are always complete sentences with proper punctuation, and I employ the semicolon often.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I use semicolons *more* when txting - when going for brevity you don't want to write "consequently" more than necessary.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

The biggest advantage of my shiny Samsung phone over the Razr is that the apostrophe is only five keystrokes away.

[imc.livejournal.com]

I resent the implication that ox.test was not punctuated properly!

I probably write better punctuated text messages than ICQ/IRC (http://idonotlikepeas.livejournal.com/93920.html?thread=600544#t612832) messages. It takes me ages to write text messages anyway — they might as well be correct. I guess I may have been seen sending sentences without an ending full stop, though.

[redbird]

I don't see why some people say they can't type "I love you" or "I'll be there at 2" as full sentences; I can, and they keep telling me that us old folks don't pick things up as fast as the young.

Like you, I like semicolons.

Have some tea.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

[] colon half-full
[] colon half-empty

(I regret having this thought, but once I did I had to share it.)