> > "lat3r" is smaller than "later" ?
> > "d00d" or "dude"
>
> Neither of those is TXT. They are from crackers who think it important to
> obfuscate words in order to appear cool.
>
> L8r is smaller than later
> Dood is the same size as dude but makes more sense phonetically.

FWIW, d00d (with zeroes) is a good deal faster to text than dude,
because d and zero are the first character on their respective keypad.
 Four presses as opposed to seven or eight.

I:m a luddite- I text in full spelling. ;-)

Ben Franklin said the deal about spelling, too- *I don:t trust a man
with so little imagination as to spell a word only one way*

Mike H.

PS- any punctuation errors are a result of this crazy japanese
keyboard, not some weird comment on the subject matter.  The
punctuation keys are all over the map, the spacebar is 1/3 size and
the key where I normally reach for space turns my text into hira-gana.
 I can:t find the language control panel because the current windows
mode is ALSO hira-gana.  Sigh.
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