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Offline motorollin

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Re: Social Experiment
« on: December 18, 2006, 09:44:13 PM »
I hate the use of "text" as a verb meanng "send a text message". It's another ugly example of the oversimplification of the English language. Ever worse than that is that I have heard people using the 'word' "textes" (pronounced "text-is") in the countext of "text" as a plural noun :pissed:

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Re: Social Experiment
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2006, 10:57:30 PM »
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Karlos wrote:
Apple have had their "think different" advertising for years ;-)

Think different what? ;-)

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