Non-Twitter norms imported even to this character-starved context. Ironically, we could express more nuanced thoughts in 140 writing this wa
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twitter mite hav ben a bad medium to express this in, b/c txtspeak seems more acceptable here 4 that reason
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Yes, to an extent. Although I've still noticed that I take tweets more seriously, and worry about mine own being taken more seriously, when
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they don't lean too heavily into it.
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Of course, it's a kind of shibboleth indicating that one is familiar with the norms of orthography, has done lots of reading, etc.
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Whether that's a substantively useful sig or not, it's of a piece w/all the other ways intellectual prestige, academic cred, etc, functions.
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There's a slight but noticeable overhead in reading that. It might get significant for long essays.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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