Date:         Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:57:54 -0700
Reply-To:     neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday: To no one in specific, but...
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I recently had to get a new smart phone for work. Even though it offers Swype
technology, <http://swypeinc.com/>  I find it's a pain to write an email. I
can now see how one could get in the habit of "your" for "you're".
 Especially if there's any kind of word suggestion in action.

On a flight home from said work, as soon as the "ok" was given by the
captain, a younger person sitting beside me broke out her phone. Furious
texting ensued. Her phone had a full physical qwerty keyboard. The speed at
which she texted was blistering. I enquired if that type of keyboard was
better than a touch screen for texting etc. With head buried in her phone,
emphatic "yes" was mumbled. Even then, given how fast she was typing, I
can't help but think that it's totally "normal" to skip an apostrophe here
and there.

Not saying it's write, er, right. Just, like, ya know, what-ever?   ;)

Neil.

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@ip-solutions.net>
wrote:


> Language changes and adapts, especially when you've got 160 characters
> to write with (e.g. twitter, txt msgs, etc.). You've got to be creative
> man, otherwise we're like neaderthals doomed to Xtingshun! ;-)



--
Neil n

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