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So, that's what they call it now? Nevermind, I don't want to know.....
I truly do hate the short hand writing, irritates the hell out of me. Typos are one thing, but don't be some fucking lazy!
sean is catching on, that sucks.
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The whole shorthand thing evolved out of text messages being charged by the character, I believe. Although I've only ever been charged by the message, so I don't know if that's something to do with my network or if the whole system has changed.
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I've never heard of by the character charges, always been by the message on the networks I've known. It was just to make them easier to type, quicker for kids in school or people trying to text and drive.
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Also, text messages have to be short. The old limit was 150 characters; some carriers now it's higher, but I've still not seen anything more than 260 characters. So if you want to say a lot, you have to compress it. It's actually quite ingenious; a human-computable dictionary-based compression algorithm...
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I get 450 characters on a text.
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You sure about that? Anytime I've gotten over 170 characters or so it splits the message into parts. My phone will allow up to 450 characters, though.
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I only know what I see. I open up & I start typing & it counts down from 450. I have never received a text from myself, you see.
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So, mmmm, send each other a 450 character text message and see what happens.
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You'll get it, said the King Penguin as he leered at you, oh yes, you'll get it.
Hey, you have a capitol S now.
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Yeah, I noticed that my name looked absolutely retarded compared to the likes of Daniel Butler, and Shik, and Ritten... all with capitals. Oh well, I will get it someday great master Ritten..(does japanese style bow)
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Shik
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Your member number makes me sad for Roy Scheider.
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Strange, I just noticed this, but my member number is the year i will Graduate high school, interesting......
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Daniel Butler
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OMINOUS!
I realized quite early that my named looked retarded cuz it's my *name.* But Mark leaves his name up too, and so does CC, so I'm in good company.
I've just never been good with screennames...When I was 13, I had a Yahoo! mail account (actually I think I was 12 and lied cuz they wouldn't give accounts back then to people under 13) which was... [email protected]. As in, "Yeerk hater _ Animorphs fan." ...Yyyyyeuch.
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