[geeks] power (was Mr. Bill)

[Mike Hebel]

Dan Sikorski wrote:
> Mike Meredith wrote:
>> The great thing about txt-speke (or whatever that mangled language that
>> texters use) is that finally after many years of being lectured to
>> about English usage by my mum, I finally get to lecture her :)
>>
>>   
> Before i had a smartphone with a qwerty keyboard, i despised text 
> messaging.  Now that i have a smartphone, i use text messaging a fair 
> amount, but my messages are similar in grammatical accuracy to my 
> emails.  It's not perfect, i tend not to capitalize I when referring to 
> myself (intentionally not corrected in this message to illustrate) and 
> make other mistakes, but overall it's dramatically better than what I'm 
> led to believe most others do.
>> Funny thing is that I remember a report (no idea of the source) saying
>> that txters do finally grow up and start using correct English in the
>> appropriate places.
>>   
> 
> Maybe I'm too old to txt OMGWTFBBQ!
> I'm too young to be too old!

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Mike Hebel

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