I think there's a point in everyone's modern day messaging career, where they waver between styles. I did shorthand for ages 12-17, then realized I type plenty fast enough to always come across as a literate person, so I slowly switched to writing everything out. Takes a little while to fully transition.
phespa ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:15:30 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are right... Everybody has a period when they do the "modern" (not really awesome) stuff.... Somebody has it when they are teens, and other people even in 40s...
Same. I stopped using shorthand around the same time. My older relatives would type that way and it drove me fucking nuts. Seriously, you aren't a kid, type like someone who can fucking read!
I think switching from flip phones to smart phones makes a big difference as well. It was much more necessary to use shortcuts when you just had the number keys.
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 07:22:28 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Title-text: I liked the idea, suggested by h00k on bash.org, of a Twitter bot that messages prominent politicians to tell them when they've unnecessarily used sms-speak abbreviations despite having plenty of characters left.
My mom usually adds about 5-8 exclamation or question marks at the end of her texts. I've tried telling her one is enough but I doubt she'll ever change.
I have a Facebook friend who is a little older than I am (which puts her in her mid-60s), and while the majority of her FB posts are in plain English, she has the mildly infuriating habit of using "gr8" constantly. She doesn't have a good time, she has a gr8 time. Every single damn time. It makes me wanna come over there and smack her. "Is there a pixel shortage? You wrote out all the rest of the words, and some of them were pretty big words, too. Why not write out 'great'?"
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:51:15 on August 31, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Smartphones with autocorrect are killing textspeak. They still let us get away with 'u' and 'r' but most shorthand gets autocorrected to the full word.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 06:58:23 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I once had someone correct my grammar.......when it was already right ,but she thought she knew better .... so when she corrected me she was typing like this! Although I think she was doing the Whole random caps Thing as well...
Define the current generation of parents. My mom definitely didn't grow up with t9, because there were no mobile phones back then, and I'm not a parent but I had t9 and a character limit.
T9 only got replaced once the smartphones took over, and I think that happened mostly after the iPhone 3gs was released, which was only 6 years ago.
Willy-FR ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 12:10:59 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
maybe his mom is 17 and he's a very articulate 3 year old?
It's not pedantry if it's a fundamental dispute. My father is 65 and does this. I am 32 and grew up with T9. My father got his first cell phone after I did.
I can see this being true of the parents of 15 year olds, but for the Redditors who are over 20, it's almost universally untrue.
Hrm...my mom (in her mid 50s) started texting like that, but evolved to typing normally when she graduated from phones with QWERTY keyboards to touch screen keyboards. She said her hands would get tired.
My explanation - parents type like slow old people, and every keystroke is a lot of effort, so they want to conserve. Teens actually know how to type, so using full words isn't much effort
[deleted] ยท 141 points ยท Posted at 15:01:39 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
How most of my sms conversations go with either parent.
Me: Hey Dad! I was thinking we could grab some dinner at Cheevers, have you ever been there?
Dad: NO
Me: I think you'd like it, wanna go with us?
Dad: YES
Me: Cool, we will be there at 7. See you then!
Dad: OK
notcanadianeh ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 22:36:03 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So I'm guessing your dads Lil Jon?
nappiestapparatus ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 22:41:18 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
TO THE WINDOWWWWW
notcanadianeh ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:56:17 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT
blickblocks ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:43:08 on September 6, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/u/nappiestapparatus said "to the window"
SinkHoleDeMayo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:38:06 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
HAAWHAT?
notcanadianeh ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:05:34 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Get outta here Hank Hill!
lostmau5 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:55:15 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My dad's more of a K guy.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:13:45 on September 18, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot the other scenario.
Dad: Thanks. I will see you then. Love, Dad.
sujihime ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 07:43:26 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My mom does this but inconsistently. It's random on when she uses U or you, r or are. So weird...
Lofty_Vagary ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 11:30:42 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think there's a point in everyone's modern day messaging career, where they waver between styles. I did shorthand for ages 12-17, then realized I type plenty fast enough to always come across as a literate person, so I slowly switched to writing everything out. Takes a little while to fully transition.
phespa ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:15:30 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You are right... Everybody has a period when they do the "modern" (not really awesome) stuff.... Somebody has it when they are teens, and other people even in 40s...
SinkHoleDeMayo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:37:46 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Same. I stopped using shorthand around the same time. My older relatives would type that way and it drove me fucking nuts. Seriously, you aren't a kid, type like someone who can fucking read!
LadyLizardWizard ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:51:45 on September 18, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think switching from flip phones to smart phones makes a big difference as well. It was much more necessary to use shortcuts when you just had the number keys.
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 07:22:28 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My mom uses more emoji, but that's about it.
three18ti ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 08:39:39 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Define "adult".... I think this might actually be my first "lawn" moment... wtf. Lol
JP147 ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 10:42:25 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I have noticed it mainly in people over 40.
SunnyMarble ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:21:39 on August 31, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Another tell is the over use of elipsis(sp).
Hey.... what's up...
howsem ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 09:46:15 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My parents text like that.
iUsedtoHadHerpes ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 16:15:49 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What a coincidence! My anecdotal evidence offers a confirmation bias, too!
TrotBot ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 21:53:54 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I've got hard evidence that you're an asshole.
VoilaVoilaWashington ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:57:36 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Where are you gonna stick that hard evidence?
TrotBot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:11:16 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
In his left nostril. Far enough to penetrate to the brain and give him internal bleeding. It's a messy business, rather not go into details.
SuperWeegee4000 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:39:53 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Well that escalated quickly.
gormster ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 11:28:08 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant xkcd
xkcd_transcriber ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 11:28:17 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
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Title: Writing Styles
Title-text: I liked the idea, suggested by h00k on bash.org, of a Twitter bot that messages prominent politicians to tell them when they've unnecessarily used sms-speak abbreviations despite having plenty of characters left.
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jedispyder ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:23:01 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My mom usually adds about 5-8 exclamation or question marks at the end of her texts. I've tried telling her one is enough but I doubt she'll ever change.
VoilaVoilaWashington ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:57:58 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's a fun fact????????
GrandmaGos ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 12:12:46 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)*
I have a Facebook friend who is a little older than I am (which puts her in her mid-60s), and while the majority of her FB posts are in plain English, she has the mildly infuriating habit of using "gr8" constantly. She doesn't have a good time, she has a gr8 time. Every single damn time. It makes me wanna come over there and smack her. "Is there a pixel shortage? You wrote out all the rest of the words, and some of them were pretty big words, too. Why not write out 'great'?"
DeusExMockinYa ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 13:33:00 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It sounds like she's got gr8 b8 m8 8/8
eck0 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 17:30:12 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
don't h8, no need to be ir8
RootsRocksnRuts ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:45:21 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I remember how cool I was when I was the first one out of my friends on AIM to use l8r.
eck0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:31:10 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
lol ikr
VoilaVoilaWashington ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:57:15 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That was f8.
CommanderPaprika ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 06:36:24 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
So true that it's true.
Stenchr ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:18:22 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My mom uses winkey faces after everything for no good Damn reason
Downvotes-Inc ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:18:11 on September 5, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Oh there's a reason alright ;)
bran_dong ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 04:16:01 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
i wish i could punch you in the face for posting this, i feel dumber for having read it.
ridik_ulass ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 10:22:51 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
so true.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:03:54 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why? That's an odd reaction...
bran_dong ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:09:56 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
an odd reaction to you is a perfectly normal reaction to someone else.
Potado ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:42:46 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus christ, dude.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:10:24 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
/r/fellowkids
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:51:15 on August 31, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Smartphones with autocorrect are killing textspeak. They still let us get away with 'u' and 'r' but most shorthand gets autocorrected to the full word.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 06:58:23 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, teenage redditor.
Missing_Intestines ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:14:08 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Forgot about.......when they use all the periods.........
VoilaVoilaWashington ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:01:25 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I once had someone correct my grammar.......when it was already right ,but she thought she knew better .... so when she corrected me she was typing like this! Although I think she was doing the Whole random caps Thing as well...
salt-lick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:19 on September 9, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My mother xx in lawxx puts lots xx of xxxxxxx in betweenxx her words xxzzx with the occasional z.
SparkySywer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:17:21 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
For my friends talk:
Me: akt! rys byel dai'syu?
Friend: ae byel dag! ag dai?
Me: ae byel dag ag. grat.
Friend: dai gur'zag'dag'dag ae'syu fas fas'dag?
Me: vyuk, ae'syu fas!
I convinced my friends to learn Vyrmag.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:54 on October 2, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I took a long look at this and finally realised this was vymrag. cool to see a conlang here!
SparkySywer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:08:12 on October 6, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Ayyo
Coffeebiscuit ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 07:30:24 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
That's because the current generation of parents grew up with t9 and a limited amount of characters.
Kevinement ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 10:35:07 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Define the current generation of parents. My mom definitely didn't grow up with t9, because there were no mobile phones back then, and I'm not a parent but I had t9 and a character limit.
T9 only got replaced once the smartphones took over, and I think that happened mostly after the iPhone 3gs was released, which was only 6 years ago.
Willy-FR ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 12:10:59 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
maybe his mom is 17 and he's a very articulate 3 year old?
Lofty_Vagary ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 11:27:37 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Found the pedant
VoilaVoilaWashington ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 13:27:16 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It's not pedantry if it's a fundamental dispute. My father is 65 and does this. I am 32 and grew up with T9. My father got his first cell phone after I did.
I can see this being true of the parents of 15 year olds, but for the Redditors who are over 20, it's almost universally untrue.
Lofty_Vagary ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:46 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I found it pedantic since, as you've laid out, it's almost universally untrue for redditors over 20, so I saw /u/Coffeebiscuit's joke right away.
VoilaVoilaWashington ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:35 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
What joke?
Lofty_Vagary ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:10:33 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
The statement he made was an obvious exaggeration/hyperbole, and thus a joke. Sorry you missed the laugh.
Fenzik ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 09:15:59 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I grew up with that and I'm 23. They grew up without cell phones or Internet.
gormster ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:29:38 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Face it - your peers are fast becoming the current generation of parents.
cranberry94 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 11:49:46 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but those parents aren't old enough to have children making comments about their texting on the Internet.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:11:30 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Bad parent detected.
hillthekhore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:10 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
You win.
VoilaVoilaWashington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:21 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
No point, he's not gonna make it out anyway.
KingGumboot ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:35 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I grew up with it (well, until I was like 15 at least) and I'm 20. I don't know why people act like t9 was decades ago
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:04:13 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I thought this was /r/im14andthisisdeep for a second there
mosdefin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:17:34 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
pipiopi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:19 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
This is how the CFO of my company texts...
courtoftheair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:05 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My mother does this to the point that I can't understand what she's saying.
VoilaVoilaWashington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:13 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My mther ds ths 2 teh . tht i cnt unstd wat she syng.
OppressedCactus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:09 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Hrm...my mom (in her mid 50s) started texting like that, but evolved to typing normally when she graduated from phones with QWERTY keyboards to touch screen keyboards. She said her hands would get tired.
She does excessively use Emojis though.
VoilaVoilaWashington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:26 on August 30, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
:)
irbilldozer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:01 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle uses "kewl" every damn chance he gets I swear.
shaggy9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:31 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
Totes!
red_fluff_dragon ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 07:32:15 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
I think I need my eyes check, I thought the title said "sext" and I was thoroughly confused
๐๏ธ birdington1 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:49:01 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
It does.
EatingSteak ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 12:30:17 on August 29, 2015 ยท (Permalink)
My explanation - parents type like slow old people, and every keystroke is a lot of effort, so they want to conserve. Teens actually know how to type, so using full words isn't much effort