Friend Anna has written a post which gives me hope for our generation’s future in verbiage.
Some mock the attention I give text messages: proper punctuation and capitalization, correct spelling, etc. I feel doing otherwise leads me to sloppiness in other writing.* I know some people prefer quickness, economy of characters, or avoidance of predictive-text systems. Yippie for them, but I’m set in my ways, and my type.
How do you type across different mediums?
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*Also why I don’t use colloquialisms loosely. Dangerous things, colloquialisms!
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Melanie Killingsworth
I’ve done the same since I started IMing in early high school. It has improved my overall typing speed, and while I may shorten one or two words, or use the all-too-common “lol”, I have always tended to use capitalization, punctuation and correct spelling. I’m fairly certain I’ve infected a few friends who regularly communicate with me via those methods into communicating grammatically as well.
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