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In article ,
Whisky-dave wrote:

txtspk is came to be because originally, it was a pain in the ass
to
type on a phone and also because there's an upper limit on how many
characters could be in a text message.

Gee. Is this something you've figured out and think that no one
else
is aware of?

It's the idea that shortening a sentance to few single charcaters in
order to
communicate quickly is something new and only came about because of
the iphone is something I didn't agreed with.

it has nothing to do with the iphone. where did you get that idea?

from you calling it txtspk.

how is 'txtspk' iphone specific?

I never said it was.

yes you did:
it has nothing to do with the iphone. where did you get that idea?
from you calling it txtspk.





Shakespeare used "U" instead of you.

no he didn't, nor did he write:
2b o not 2b is the q

or historical evolution, see V. Used punningly for you by 1588 ["Love's
Labour's Lost," V.i.60], not long after the pronunciation shift that made the
vowel a homonym of the pronoun. As a simple shorthand (without intentional
word-play), it is recorded from 1862. Common in business abbreviations
since 1923 (such as U-Haul, attested from 1951).

u-haul is a trademark. it doesn't have to be a real word or an
abbreviation. it can be made up.

fotomat is an intentional misspelling, as is publix and qwest. even
google is spelled wrong. verizon is a made up word.

there was a very short lived search engine called cuil, pronounced
'cool'. it's long gone for various reasons, one of which it had a
stupid name that nobody knew how to say *or* spell.

In article ,
Whisky-dave wrote:

lol was used for lots of love a long time before it was used as txtspk on
mobile devices fro laughing out loud.

lol has never been used for lots of love in online or in text messages.

that's the whole point.

In article , Tony Cooper
wrote:

lol was used for lots of love a long time before it was used as txtspk on
mobile devices fro laughing out loud.

lol has never been used for lots of love in online or in text messages.


Amazing! What survey technique did you use to discover what is
"never" used? You must think you're omnipotent to know what everyone
does.

the same way you claim to know the meanings of words or phrases.

On 07/01/2016 12:23 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , Tony Cooper
wrote:

lol was used for lots of love a long time before it was used as txtspk on
mobile devices fro laughing out loud.

lol has never been used for lots of love in online or in text messages.


Amazing! What survey technique did you use to discover what is
"never" used? You must think you're omnipotent to know what everyone
does.

the same way you claim to know the meanings of words or phrases.

I remember passing notes in high school American History class (the
teacher, in spite of having lived through most of it, was particularly
boring!), that were often signed with "L O L" and "X O X". The x's and
o's indicated kisses and hugs, although I was never certain which was
which. This would have been in the early 1970's before the days of a
computer on every desktop and a desktop on every computer.

It would only seem logical that at some time, LOL was used online for
"Lots of Love". Probably in the days of primarily text-based email
messages and before cat-videos. To say that it was "_never_" used in
that context is a bit over-reaching.


--
Ken Hart

In article , Ken Hart
wrote:

I remember passing notes in high school American History class (the
teacher, in spite of having lived through most of it, was particularly
boring!), that were often signed with "L O L" and "X O X". The x's and
o's indicated kisses and hugs, although I was never certain which was
which. This would have been in the early 1970's before the days of a
computer on every desktop and a desktop on every computer.

exactly the point.

passing love notes was *not* online.

there's a whole ****load of online-isms that never existed back then.

It would only seem logical that at some time, LOL was used online for
"Lots of Love". Probably in the days of primarily text-based email
messages and before cat-videos. To say that it was "_never_" used in
that context is a bit over-reaching.

yet correct.

the only people who think lol means lots of love when used online are
old farts who don't know any better and are doing so out of ignorance,
thinking that it has the same meaning online as it did in their 1970s
schoolhouse. it doesn't.