On 02/06/2022 03:19, Chris K-Man wrote:
> F- the "in crowd". I choose to talk - and type - like a normal
> person, not a string of letters, like C3PO might understand
>
That is your choice. Had you been on line when I was first on line, you
would have been using the same abbreviations as the rest of us, for the
same reasons. We also logged on, downloaded all the messages, logged
off, then composed replies offline and sent them as a batch when we next
logged on. Good snipping of extraneous material in a post was a
necessary skill.
The luxury we have now of many megabauds of transmission bandwidth, and
not paying per kilobyte and second on line for using it has changed
things over the last 40 years or so, though phone keyboards have brought
many of the abbreviations back into use to save typing time. Txtspk is
just a modification of what we used in the 1970s. The yoofers who use it
now think it's NEW! and EXCITING! and use it as a way to get round the
160 character limit on SMS messages and the old 140 character limit on
Twitter.
Cul8r. :-)