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    Am I alone in this?

    When I send text messages, I dont use predictive text and I write all words longhand and use capitals and punctuation.
    I treat it the same as if I were sending an email.

    Does anyone else do this or am I a prig? :
    Last edited by Pogle; 10 February 2009, 12:57.
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    #2
    Originally posted by Pogle View Post
    When I send text messages, I dont use predictive text and I write all words longhand and use capitals and punctuation.
    I treat it the same as if I were sending an email.

    Does anyone else do this or am I a prig?
    I do too, but then again, when I recieve messages in "txt spk", I usually can't understand a word of it, so I don't have a choice.
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      #3
      I am an oldie like you two.
      "Condoms should come with a free pack of earplugs."

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        #4
        T9 predictive text doesn't block capitalisation or punctuation, so why not just leave it on?
        Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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          #5
          No you are not alone, I hate text speak.

          I insist in sndg all msgs in lng hnd

          I've probably spelt that all wrong I also hate using predictive text on my phone.
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            #6
            Originally posted by Pogle View Post
            When I send text messages, I dont use predictive text and I write all words longhand and use capitals and punctuation.
            I treat it the same as if I were sending an email.

            Does anyone else do this or am I a prig? :
            No I'm the same.

            Good for you Pogle.

            We are upholding the standards of decency and literacy in an age of grunting philistines.

            You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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              #7
              predictive T9 for me, but correctly written in full

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                #8
                Originally posted by Pogle View Post
                When I send text messages, I dont use predictive text and I write all words longhand and use capitals and punctuation.
                I treat it the same as if I were sending an email.

                Does anyone else do this or am I a prig? :
                I do that too. No, you are not a prig. You are obviously not a chav either.
                And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                  #9
                  I don't use text speak, but I don't bother about too much about grammar.

                  BTW Did Prince invent text speak?

                  e.g. I Would Die 4 U
                  The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

                  But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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                    #10
                    My daughter was going through a rough patch with her hubby last year. When I next spoke to her I asked her how things were between them, she said 'Oh he's been cool with me'
                    'Oh tulip' says I , 'thats bad'
                    'No thats good'
                    'Is it ?'
                    'yes'
                    'oh'

                    thats how old I am




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