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Kaliko -> RE: text speak (2/5/2012 8:30:15 PM)
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ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss
I know folks here hate it (and I'm not a lover of it). But you know, we all did get used to touch tone phones, laptops, remote controls, dishwashers, automatic garage door openers, and the like. Remember George Jetson and all the things that were then scifi and are now de riguer? Text speak is on that continuum imo.
I can remember my grandparents fighting the microwave they received as a gift. They did NOT want anything to do with it.
I fought getting a computer. I was the last one in my family to get one. (Little did I know how it would affect my life once I did get one.)
I fought cell phones, too, and I still rarely talk on my cell. I use it for text and web, but I still don't like having that thing up next to my brain, no matter how many studies tell me not to worry.
And now I'm fighting the Kindle/Nook, whatever. I just bought my daughter a new hardcover book for $30. She devoured it in a day and now I have a $30 book on the shelf. Would it be more practical to have a Kindle? Yes. But would it be as tangibly wonderful and romantic as holding a brand new keepsake of a hardcover book in your hands to have forever as a memory when you grow older? No. That's worth $30 to me. (Though...only now and then. :)
I have an old, heavy, black rotary phone. I bought it at an antique store, God help me. My daughter and her friend did not even know how to use it. I had to show them. It was so surreal.
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