From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:22:13 +0530 From: Martin C.Atkins To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] nsf funding research into better (operating) systems Message-Id: <20041018102213.2af428c1.martin_ml@parvat.com> In-Reply-To: <416F2E0C.5040605@ajft.org> References: <207b70e098020cbe467fafafeb9e7121@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> <416F2E0C.5040605@ajft.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: efa14e9a-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:55:24 +1000 Adrian Tritschler wrote: > I'm curious how much of the SMS message-speak is dependent on language. > When I see messages such as "c u l8r", phonetically in English it is I've always wondered how people type these things? My mobile (and, I believe, most current mobile phones) has predictive text entry, and it's *easier* to type correctly spelt words than "SMS speak"! If people really do still type this stuff, then I'm guessing that they do it for reasons other than those normally cited! Martin -- Martin C. Atkins martin@parvat.com Parvat Infotech (Private) Limited http://www.parvat.com