Social Experiment

[whabang]

I'd personally never use text as a verb, but if I had to, I'd say it was an irregular one (text, text, text).

[Karlos]

adz wrote:
The world is a changing place. What was once swept under the rug or shunned is now accepted. The same will happen with sloppy and short handed English. They have already started using it in advertising here in Australia, you can't stop it, so just sit back and accept it.

Indeed. Apple have had their "think different" advertising for years ;-)

[Karlos]

"One had ones' manservant send correspondence via the short messaging service feature of one's mobile telephone.

I say, Cockfoster, has one received that confounded 'delivery report' yet?"

[JaXanim]

If you google for 'texting' you get nearly 3 million references. If you google for 'googling' you get 5 million. New territory, new verbs.

JaX

[jkirk]

i is are won hov dem dar merican persons. ja no?

anyway if i was sending the message that i had sent a message i would send "snt txt" as i don't type well on a phone.

as for telling someone i would say "i mailed them" as i consider this a type of email.

as fer my age i is 35. ;-)

[motorollin]

Karlos wrote:
Apple have had their "think different" advertising for years ;-)

Think different what? ;-)

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moto