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working it out in the office Etiquette on the comeback trail
By Lucky Kellaway
Published: February 25, 2009, 22:59
Last week I received a text message from a colleague that read:"I, sadly, will be late for our meeting; the Underground is running with long delays."
I gazed at this message for some time. The fact that this young man was going to be late was of little interest; the fact that he had used one full stop, two commas and one semicolon to tell me so was of very great interest indeed. If a 26-year-old sends elaborately punctuated text messages, does this herald the end of an era? Could it be, I wondered, that the lower-case, "hey-there, c-u-l8r age" of business language is over?
http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Comment_and_Analysis/10289362.html
maybe he had a template that he had stored on his fone so he could jsut tell you in good english that he'd be late...Maybe some people actually use the templates on their phones.
for sms between friends, it's fine as space is limited. but for business correspondence and even sms between biz partners, the formal type should be adhered to.
'sno gud wen they pull dat kinda thing on da internetz
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Cant people just type NORMAL???
I avoid doing such (text-ing) when typing in a forum. Although I admit I sometimes slip, but not intentional:)
"I do live by the motto that pessimists are usually right, but all the great change in history was done by optimists" -Thomas Friedman
I sincerely hope so. Text speak is fine - in an SMS, but should be kept out of the real world where meaning is conveyed in the words and the way they are written. If I see a post here in text-ese, I tend to ignore it. For me it's either a sign of lazyness or poor education on the writer's behalf. I they can't be bothered to properly construct a question, I can't be bothered to answer it!