ideas or work plzzz

[Roedy Green]

I think, over here at least, that it's SMS text messaging that is to
blame.

too bad newsreaders don't have standard plugins. We could write a
dudespeak to English translator for outgoing messages.

 

[opalpa]

too bad newsreaders don't have standard plugins. We could write a

dudespeak to English translator for outgoing messages.

Sounds like an idea for a Firefox extension.

Opalinski
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[opalpa]

Google offers a "did you mean ____?" feature, which I sometimes use as a

quick spell checker for words I'm unsure of.

Firefox has a spell check extension for use while inputing into forms
called RiteOfTounge.

Opalinski
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[Luke Webber]

I think, over here at least, that it's SMS text messaging that is to
blame. Tight restrictions on the length of the message and a
ridiculously impractical input method have lead to the evolution of the
highly abbreviated "text speak". Now that it's somewhat acceptable and
understood on mobile phones it follows that lazy people, particularly
those that are slow typists, are using it on the Internet as well.

That was my thought as well, but then I realised that I'd seen far too
much of this type of abbreviated typing even before mobile 'phone use
became so pervasive that 14YOs had the things. Certainly that has made
it worse, though.

Luke