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generally speaking how long do you usually wait to reply to texts? when do you wait a little longer or reply instantly? if you do wait longer consciously what are you trying to communicate? is it rude to not even reply to a text with a question in it? how about texts without questions in?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

ill txt u n let u knw

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

it's creepy not to reply immediately.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

but with emails, it's creepy to reply immediately.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

Mania ensues.

― Camtron (Cameron), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

O mania!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

i reply immediately, btw. i found that if i don't reply right away, i never reply. i hate txt msg lngage too. fucking write a proper message. and include punctuation, you cunt. just because you're 'mobile' doesn't mean you can't take two minutes to write a full sentence, especially in this modern T9 world.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

I like txtspk and people who don't reply immediately.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

I also like longhand texts and people who do reply immediately. It's all fine.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

someone texts you rather than calls or emails you because they want to make sure you get the message immediately rather than in 4 hours or tomorrow or whenever you next check yr email but it's not important or urgent enough to interrupt whatever you may be doing or your answer requires some thought.

depends on the question. if it's "what time are we going to the pub?" you should obv reply as soon as you can (er, what with going to the pub being an issue of crucial importance) and it'll only take you 5 seconds. if it's something a bit more complicated, talk about it when you're actually in the pub. um, yeh, try to text back before you go to bed.

xpost heh g i am a total stickler for punctuation in texts! i will use txtspk if it will make it 1 msg rather than 2 etc but i don't skimp on brackets, apostrophes etc. i wonder why.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

Adam crankypants replied to an sms y'day that I'd sent him over a week ago, heh. I'd forgot I'd sent one!

I dont mind that - I love random sms appearing.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

it's creepy not to reply immediately.

Wah? God, then I must sometimes be deemed very impolite. :-( I sometimes reply the next day or even a bit later. :-(((I also rarely use text lingo (or whatever you call it) so I usually send these really long texts.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 19 December 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's creepy but I think it is impolite and to not reply at all is just rude.

I think the internet in general, and ilx in specific, has warped my whole attitude towards the immediacy of communication and response

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I agree with that. I remember when I had penpals and I'd wait weeks for a letter. When I got email people would panic and tell me off if I hadnt replied in a day or two. Everyone's forced to rush everything.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

it's alien to me but I envy them - there are still people out there who don't use the internet every day and don't use their mobiles heavily!! incredible!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

uh actually that's the vast majority of people

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

sorry i went crazy over texts and punctuation to extent of calling people cunts. i really should think more.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

it's alien to me but I envy them - there are still people out there who don't use the internet every day and don't use their mobiles heavily!! incredible!

Yeah, look at all the good it's doing you. Sitting there second-guessing an appropriate response time rather than just being yourself.

― Yeah.txt, Monday, 19 December 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

that sounds like something i'd say.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

sorry i went crazy over texts and punctuation to extent of calling people cunts. i really should think more.

Especially since you fashionably don't capitalize. How neat.

― Yeah.txt, Monday, 19 December 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

I pretty much hate text messaging, they feel so impersonal. Plus people use it as a shortcut when they don't have the guts to say something personally - the worst case being the assholes who dumb their girl/boyfriends with texts. Most of the time I get a text message with a question, I call whoever sent it back - it's easier and cheaper. For example, I have a friend who might send me text messages like, "Do you want to go the cinema this week?". Now imagine if I were to answer him with a text message, and we'd continue the conversation with texts: "Sure, is Friday okay?" "I can't make it then, how about Thursday?" "Thursday's fine, what movie do you want to see?" "Corpse Bride, maybe?" "I've already seen it, how about..." Etc. The only time I text someone is when I have something that needs to be dealt with soon and the person is literally out of reach - her phone is off or something.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

the internet is pretty much the bane of my life, so what?

x-post

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Especially since you fashionably don't capitalize.

pwnt tbh lol ^_^

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Cozen, how long did you wait before you pressed submit? ;-)

― Yeah.txt, Monday, 19 December 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

ho ho howned!

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

Tuomas is right. People, why are you wasting your time with this ridiculous, pointless and absurdly inefficient piece of technology? WAKE UP. It is easier and cheaper to call. Texting will be the joke of the 2020's. Even CB radio had more going for it. BOOKMARK THIS PREDICTION.

― moley, Monday, 19 December 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

owned in the face

: /

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

i can't bookmark it, my thumbs are all fucked up.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

Of course I realize how text messages make things easier... For example, if I have some girl's number I want to ask out I'm always tempted to send her a text, because it takes less courage. But I have a principle of not doing that, because I wouldn't respect myself (and maybe she wouldn't respect me either) if I didn't even have the guts to call her.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

Let's put it this way: text messaging makes some things easier that shouldn't be too easy.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

calling people is awkward and embarrassing.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

i don't answer the phone anyway.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

I would just reply "call no txt" and then get shorter and shorter everytime the text you: no txt, notxt, call, :-P, x, [no reply]

― Yeah.txt, Monday, 19 December 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

calling people is awkward & embarassing?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

he means for phone sex

― Yeah.txt, Monday, 19 December 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

face to face > telephone call > text > e-mail > letter

is my order of preference

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

in order of creepiness

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

I like letters much more than any electronic form of communication. They feel romantic and more personal.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

face to face > telephone call > text > e-mail > letter
is my order of preference

-- cozen (skiplevel...), December 19th, 2005.

opposite is true, though. depends whose face, i spose.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

I like letters much more than any electronic form of communication. They feel romantic and more personal.

Darling bank manager,

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

that doesn't even make sense

x-post

yes, but for a certain type of communication tuomas letters are pretty impractical

x-post

true for... ?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

I like letters much more than any electronic form of communication. They feel romantic and more personal.

Yes, but sending a letter saying "What time are you going to the pub?" isn't all that practical.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

Tuomas prefer this as communication:

http://www.pmhonline.com/photogallery/photo5938/tomtom.jpg

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

For business relationships my order of preference is: email > telephone call > face to face.

For personal relationships its: face to face > telephone > quick email jokes/links

I would think there was something wrong with a non-business person who texts me in any fashion. Text is for strangers.

― Yeah.txt, Monday, 19 December 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

I meant for friends and lovers, obviously. I don't text my bank manager either.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

letters are a bit crap -- there's no way of knowing they've been received, etc. but with the phone, it's a crap halfway hoouse between efficiently organizing the meet, and having the meet.

Yeah.txt is weird.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

IF ITS URGENT YOU SEND A TELEGRAM IDIOT EXCLAMATION MARK STOP

― moley, Monday, 19 December 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

ROTFLMAOETC

― Yeah.txt, Monday, 19 December 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

I would have said for business relationships in terms of expediency and relationship building preference would be still face to face > call > e-mail?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

work and relationships ddon't mix. plus you keep copies of emails so can prove that u said what and when , etc.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

work and relationships don't mix

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

do not let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in thirty seconds if you feel the heat around the corner.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, look at all the good it's doing you. Sitting there second-guessing an appropriate response time rather than just being yourself.
-- Yeah.txt (yea...) (webmail), Today 10:12 AM. (later) (link)

anyway, yes, I think this is OTM

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

even if it does assume a little too much

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

even if it does pwn yr face a lil bit.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

I reply to texts as soon as I get them. The problem is that, in my virtually network-free flat, I sometimes don't get them for a couple of hours. Also, sometimes it is cheaper to text, like from abroad. If I'm just letting my parents know I've arrived OK it's better to text I think.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

They are like instant telegrams in that sense.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

texts are a more 'natural' form of comms than the phone, i find.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

people talk about their potentially dangerous ambiguity, but the disembodied voice is no better in that regard.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 19 December 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

Let's broaden this text etiquette debate. Is it acceptable to send texts from someone else's phone, pretending to be them?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Only if they are sexually explicit.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

Yes. It is also acceptable to send pictures of naked men to your younger brother's cellphone, knowing it will embarrass him in front of his schoolmates.

― moley, Monday, 19 December 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

In fact, texting and sending pics have prank value only.

― moley, Monday, 19 December 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

people talk about their potentially dangerous ambiguity, but the disembodied voice is no better in that regard

I don't find this true at all. Text messages are one step away from phone calls in regards of human closeness, in all the positive and negative things that that entails. It's easier to text personal things than to say them on the phone. You yourself said that "calling people is awkward and embarrassing". The same was said by my friend mentioned above, when I asked her why she prefers texting over calling someone. So obviously texting can be helpful for shy people, but it's also a bit too helpful for saying things that people should be able to say personally, not in a 200 character bit of digital text.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

I don't know why you're so humg up on this shy thing. Most texts I send to friends are completely unembarrassing bits and pieces. Avoiding talking doesn't come into it. Some things are just better suited to texts.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

A/the problem with texts is that they're much more forgettable than, say, emails - you don't look at your list of texts when you check your phone. You're much more likely to forget if you don't reply immediately. And most people will ideally want a reply immediately, so why not give one?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

I'll grant you this: texting is an extremely good medium - the ideal medium - for sobbing, paranoid, PMT rants against men in general. It's better for their partners too, as it's quieter.

― moley, Monday, 19 December 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've ever sent a ranting text about anything. I think that would be weird.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

I am just imagining you phoning me up to tell me about the quality of light over glasgow now

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

Indeed.

Incidentally,

I don't think it's creepy but I think it is impolite and to not reply at all is just rude.

How does this square with you leaving your phone at home and only checking it once a week?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

I think it's OK to send texts from others' phones pretending to be them as long as it advances their chance of sex

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

way x-post: The reason I prefer email or phone to in-person FOR BUSINESS is because clients are generally so fucking stupid you get almost nothing done in-person. They're too worried about being in charge or something to actually concentrate. These meetings are only good for the broad strokes and even then I feel like I'm teaching special ed. It's weird how clients can get hung up on these idiotic abstract buzzwords that mean nothing but they can't understand plain english unless it's repeated a half dozen times in different ways with many pictures.

― Yeah.txt, Monday, 19 December 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it doesn't really square but then people hardly ever text me, not that that is justification - because people do text me - but it is reason

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

I think peoples' attitudes towards in business communication depends upon their business obv.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand what you're saying. Could you restate with several pictures of an owl please.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

SQUIZ?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

PASS

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/2002/birdornaments/images/owl-f5743-26-th-398v.jpg
TEXT MESSAGES ARE FOR LOO-HOO-HOO-SERS!

http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/cyberzoo/images/greathornedowl1.gif
YOU CAN JUST TOOT-TOOT!

http://www.naturegraphics.net/bh658%20spectacled%20owl.jpg
THAT'S WHAT THE LITTLE BIRD TOO-HOO-TOLD!

http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/cyberzoo/images/snowyowl2.gif
HOLLA!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

well, for lawyers for example it is v.important to build relationships between both yr clients ($$$) and yr colleagues ($$$) and so the personality of face to face and calling is preferred (you know, the human touch) whereas for someone whose their income, or their company's income is not dependent upon sound, reliable relationships then personal communication (face to face > calling > e-mail) is possibly less important and its just the message that is important?

x-post

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

lawyers should text all their contracts for signing

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, for me, because my work is all detail oriented. Broad strokes don't mean much accept "Yeah, I know what you want and here's what I propose. Do we trust each other?"

― Yeah.txt, Monday, 19 December 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

I don't really like phone calls, unless I really know the person well and want to hear their voice. Texting is easier and quicker, and there aren't so many awkward silences.

The problem with texts is that people can use them to stalk you. I have one friend who puts a report on the phone, so she can tell when I've read it, and then if I don't reply straight away, she'll call and ask why not.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

I hate phoning, hence why I text/email more. It's also less obtrusive (?). They can reply when/if they want to.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 19 December 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

I am utterly phonephobic, so I would rather have a text a million times over - unless I'm speaking to one of those dithering friends who has to send at least 5 texts before they can agree which pub/movie/restaurant we're going to.

I try to respond to texts promptly, as I receive them (though this obviously depends on not being in a meeting/on the tube/in the loo) unless the answer requires reference and/or checking. If A Boy takes longer than 15 minutes to reply to a text, then clearly, he HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATES me.

I mean, personally, I'd rather conduct my entire life by email, but that's hard as I've only got email access in my office. So I guess it would be:

Email > Texts >>> Face 2 Face >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Phone Calls

― Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 19 December 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

I think it's OK to send texts from others' phones pretending to be them as long as it advances their chance of death

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 December 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Never, ever, EVER send texts from someone else's phone unless you are dead clear that it is you, not them. These things are not funny, people. >:-(

― Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 19 December 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Alba, is this why you borrowed my phone that time we were in Hubbards? In fact, I'm sure you've borrowed my phone a couple of times. I'm worried now :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 19 December 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've ever sent a ranting text about anything. I think that would be weird.

why?? text is great for ranting cos it makes you compress it, hence ranting texts are nearly always piss-funny.

― emskatwork, Monday, 19 December 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

I hate phoning as well - being on the phone in public esp is just unpleasant, and there's so much more likelihood of mishearing (this may have something to do with the fact that my phone is fuxx0red). Face to face is obv best, but email or text better than phone by far unless it's something needs to be immediately resolved/said. Texts are great for factual things, addresses or time/place of meeting or whatever - it's very reassuring to know that you've got the finalised details on yr phone, not a piece of paper you can easily lose.

I'd give half a day for a text to be answered, straight away feels a bit odd to me, kind of 'cor, they really aren't busy eh'.

― baby i'm waiting (cis), Monday, 19 December 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I rant via text. Drunken texts are the funniest, though. I have saved a drunken text from Emsk on my phone that is all "Wheeee! London is like a GRATE BIG video game when you are cycling!"

― Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 19 December 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I very rarely answer immediately. Partly because I'm so disorganised. I've had several people take umbrage because I've taken a day or so to answer. Blimey, people, if its that urgent (yet it never is...ooh three dots, that makes me a lazy writer, apparently), make a phone call.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 19 December 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

three dots + all lower case = shot at dawn...

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 19 December 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

...then again, if I answer emails within a week, you're pretty lucky. :-)

― Kate Classic (kate), Monday, 19 December 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

but i'm a boy.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 19 December 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

in fact, i'm a real boy! merry new year!

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 19 December 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

some people

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

yep im getting fed up of non replies...

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:17 (twenty years ago)

text etiquette:

don't text my gf (not gf) cryptic msgs and scare her

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

OK, what's her (not her) number?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

I know this may seem horrible, but I'm somehow vaguely relieved that boys go through these kinds of dilemmas, too.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

turns out the person who prompted the thread is just stupid slow at replying to text msgs, as I saw when hanging out w.them over an extended pd of time

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

texts are the worst for staring at and thinking "shit, what do they mean by that full stop" or "why have they not said "hey" when they normally do?" etc etc. worst form of communication. ever. and the best. but you need to elimate yr paranoia

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I know this asshole who sometimes does not EVER reply to a text, and then references it when we are out, weeks later. Go to hell, Zach.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Am I just being a curmudgeon when I say that I fail to see the usefulness of text messaging? For fuck's sake, if you have something to say, you can call me. I'm not going to type out a message using a fucking phone that doesn't even have as many keys as there are letters in the alphabet.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

How does this square with you leaving your phone at home and only checking it once a week?

I've just seen this. Perhaps this newfangled device the kids are calling a "land line" might be more appropriate to your needs?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

What is this landline nonsense? We know nothing of this in the icen forests of St. Reathams!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I am happy to get about one text message a week.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

What -- jel hasn't been receiving my texts?!

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

the point of texting is that most of the time i am late for stuff or with people and just dont have time to answer/make calls, when i just have some info to impart.

i think people get pset about unreplied to texts principally because it sort of feels like you dont even know if they read it, a bit like emails. but as roxys story tells, not replying should not be confused with not reading.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 5 January 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

the other point of texting is if it's about something that's urgent enough that you want to make sure someone gets the message asap and they might not check their email for a while, but not urgent enough to interrupt something more important they might be doing.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 6 January 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

some people have different opinions about texting

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 6 January 2006 09:22 (twenty years ago)

useful texts
"up for a pint?"
"fyi, just returned home"
"just buying you some pants, what size are you?"
"whats the name of that new autechre album?"

non-useful texts that would probly require phone call
"are you about? i urgently need to find out what you are upto this evening? tmb asap"
"i think i'm in love with you, what do you say to that?"
"going out at about 8 maybe, will see what jane is doing, should we meet at the pub or the restaurant? spose it depends on where fred is, have you seen him?"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 6 January 2006 09:38 (twenty years ago)

see?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 6 January 2006 09:39 (twenty years ago)

o so kripptyk

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 6 January 2006 10:09 (twenty years ago)

: (

what else can I do

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 6 January 2006 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Ste utterly OTM.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:20 (twenty years ago)

ste/cozen/emsk OTM. most people i know hate texting generally i guess.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I love texting, but it's often misused.

If your conversation cannot be answered within 2 or 3 texts between you, it should not be a text conversation.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I just phone her now

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

life's too short to tend a mobile like a broken bird

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

a national pasttime

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shext

― Dandy Don Weiner, Friday, 5 December 2008 14:09 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

hate it when i text someone and get no response

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Sunday, 13 March 2011 06:08 (fifteen years ago)

Maybe they changed their number/lost their phone/fell into a coma? Don't sweat it.

― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:08 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

New discourse analysis book published, would read for lols as well as analysis -- I've always wondered when research lx would catch up to the real world, and it looks like it's starting. I don't really keep up with trends in discourse analysis because it's not my general field of work (or study) but it certainly is illuminating to see what those folks are up to.

Description
Understanding the discourse of text messaging has profound implications for society. SMS text messaging has impacted considerably on how we communicate with others. Negative, sometimes alarmist media coverage continues to fuel debate surrounding its 'damaging' effects on language and literacy, yet these portrayals tend to be based on extreme or fictionalised accounts of text messaging. What kind of language do people really use when they text?

Drawing on a range of academic sources from various fields, this book describes the language used in a corpus of over 11,000 text messages, as yet the largest collection in the UK. In particular, the book shows how the discourse of text messaging is shaped by users’ often creative responses to the functions and constraints of the medium.

This is an essential book for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates studying discourse analysis, as well as educators wanting to understand this important new form of discourse.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Situating text messaging: what, who, how and why \ Chapter 2: Issues in Collecting Data \ Chapter 3: Respellings in Text Messaging \ Chapter 4: The Grammar of Text Messaging \ Chapter 5: Spoken Discourse Markers in Text Messaging \ Chapter 6: Frequent Words and Phrases in Text Messaging \ Chapter 7: Everyday Creativity in Text Messaging \ Chapter 8: Performing Identity through Text Messaging \ Chapter 9: Text messaging in the World: the State of the Art and its Future \ Bibliography \ Index

http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=158094&SubjectId=989&Subject2Id=936

― game of crones (La Lechera), Monday, 18 June 2012 14:17 (thirteen years ago)

Chapter 8: Performing Identity through Text Messaging

would read!

― game of crones (La Lechera), Monday, 18 June 2012 14:18 (thirteen years ago)

corpus collection info on p 34 of the preview worth noting --

# of messages: 11,067
collection period: March 2004-May 2007

― game of crones (La Lechera), Monday, 18 June 2012 15:46 (thirteen years ago)

TLDR

― Meet the G that Skrilled me... (snoball), Monday, 18 June 2012 15:56 (thirteen years ago)

BRB, bio

― Meet the G that Skrilled me... (snoball), Monday, 18 June 2012 15:56 (thirteen years ago)

UK-based native English speakers aged 19-68

― game of crones (La Lechera), Monday, 18 June 2012 16:03 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://blog.ted.com/2012/07/11/lol-is-its-own-language-qa-with-john-mcwhorter/

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 13 July 2012 15:03 (thirteen years ago)

McWhorter says texting is merely a new form of language. And that being afraid of it is something to lol about.

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 13 July 2012 15:04 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

Researchers led by Binghamton University's Celia Klin report that text messages ending with a period are perceived as being less sincere, probably because the people sending them are heartless.

― a little too cute to be mature (alomar lines), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 05:54 (ten years ago)

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