yes, yes, bill, you're right-- but it is a fact we can think faster than we can talk, and talk faster tham most of us can type..

on a Bulliten Board, like this, short hand does seem out of place.. but in a chat room (and Sparteye has hosted a few chats over on Yahoo..) things are fast and furious.. and then short hand helps..

problem is, once you learn the short hand, it tends to creap in.. to all of your internet communications.. just like verbal short hand creaps in.. so we end up with "gunna" and "Wacha" (hey marty, wacha doing tonight? --i dunno, wacha doing?) creaping into spoken language.. and speakers like me, end up saying jurrin.. not during. the inital sound is slurred, and the final sound is dropped.. and thing like 'fagetabootit" or "jeet?" (did you eat?) become almost a joke.. but every one get them.. and way to many say them.

and since typing is even a slower way to communicate.. Ugot2 get with the program it is they way of the future. might as well stand on the shore and try to stop the tide from coming in!



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