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Do people use proper grammar and spelling in text messages, or is that atrocious one letter stuff?
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There are some 90-year olds who are still crying about e-mail replacing hand-written letters. Sometimes you just have to accept technology.
Do people use proper grammar and spelling in text messages, or is that atrocious one letter stuff?
If in the middle of a conversation, I picked up my phone and started talking to whoever called me, cutting you off mid-sentence and ignoring you, you'd think I was rude, and rightfully so. So why do so many people think it's perfectly acceptable to text away when you're talking to someone?
I love text messages for most things. No small talk needed and you have a record of things, which can be useful for directions, etc. Sometimes it doesn't make sense to text someone though. I hate it when people have text conversations like: "Jigga where you at?" "what?" "holla!" "oh." "turn right" "where?" "where you at?" Basically, I use whatever will make my life easier. Both voice and text can live in harmony.
Humans never evolved to communicate with each other over a tiny keyboard on a cell phone, it's just not healthy not to mention its very easily abused.
I can't decide if this is intentional self-parody or not. Help me out.
I'm referring to actual real life friendships, or real life relationships with the opposite sex. Not posting on interweb bulletin boards.
Okay, so take a couple of my examples:
There's just something very wrong to me about "texting" your father. You're essentially saying, "I don't really want to talk to you, so I'm going to send you a text message." But whatever works for you.2) You're watching the NBA playoffs. Because you and your father are not women, you don't feel the need to watch the entire thing with the phone to your ear the whole time, and what would you talk about for three hours anyway? Plus, you're trying to watch the game, yes? But you're both rooting for the Lakers and you each know the other is watching. You live about 3,000 miles away from each other. Kobe hits a fantastic turnaround fadeaway from twenty feet which he probably shouldn't have taken in the first place, but damn that was pretty. What is wrong with texting your father, "I can't believe he hit that!"?
There's just something very wrong to me about "texting" your father. You're essentially saying, "I don't really want to talk to you, so I'm going to send you a text message." But whatever works for you.