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Back in the day, you had to make sure your message was worth it. With the age of instantaneous communication, we've definitely devalued single messages.
Back in the day, you had to make sure your message was worth it. With the age of instantaneous communication, we've definitely devalued single messages.
You can't sit down and make everyone spell the way you'd like them to, so you're just kind of left with seeing the mistakes where they arise and laughing about them when you can. Who knows what the cause is for all of these spelling fails. It could be public schools, sheer ignorance, aggressive autocorrect or a combination of all three.
A similar conversation in 1998 would have gone a little differently.
Sakisenpai: "lol" Shawn: "You and those damn acronyms... can't you just say 'ha ha that is funny?'"
(it took "lol" and "wtf" a while to become common use, too)