Just struck me that typing with awkward abbreviations (like ‘what r u doing’) is like a textual pidgin for older people who learned typing late in life while effective emoji use and internet abbreviations like brb ngl etc are a proper creole
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Learned to type text properly on Usenet and LaTeX. Interesting that programming and command line usage on DOS in the 80s didn’t require you to know good text typing style, since you didn’t need to do it. It was the internet that made text typing a basic literacy skill.
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