I've been upgrading the old pajez on the nooalf site lately. The html wuznt very good to begin with and had gotten ransid due to the html standardz chanjing over the last 12 yirz .
I hav the impression that most uv us here are old farts, but still, maybe you like all this texting, tweeting, facebooking, etc.
Foolishness! Anybody can tok and lissin way faster than they can type or read, plus tokking and lissening happen simultainiuously, so the rate uv info exchanje for text iz probably less than 1/50th az fast.
That fone makes me yern for the good old dayz uv sound on the fone. Quality sound. Remember that stuff?
HEY! Maybe thats wy the kidz prefer to text! The sound iz soooo kuurrrrappyyy that its better to spend 20 secondz typing a short sentens than having to say it, lissin to sum garbled static that wuz probably "Wujyu say?" and then say it agen, & probably a 3rd time.
I wondered about that. I don't know, but I wonder if mechanical phone exchanges work during the EMP period after a large nuclear strike.
Do you remember when a Mig-25 landed in Japan in 1976 and still had a back up valve avionics system. At first people laughed until someone pointed out valves work during EMP periods.
They should work after an EMP from a nuclear bomb. When I was on an American aircraft carrier, the phones were those rotary types. They didn't use electricity. They called them "sound-powered".
JO 753 wrote: Not to worry, Gord. It just meanz the teacherz did a good job on you in grammar skool.
They really didn't. I had to teach myself. One day I sat down and read half of the dictionary, for fun.
Texting kind of sucks imo. I try to avoid it unless I can't speak to someone, like because they are at work or something.
If the the only thing texting was used for was to keep from getting into a conversation, I'd be happy. It's the peeps I know who use texting instead of getting into a conversation that bug me. Texting is great for brief one-way communications when an immediate response is unnecessary. However, talking/listening is much easier than writing/reading when back and forth conversation is necessary.
Talking a lot on a cell co$t$. Texting a lot costs little or nothing. The texting phenomenon is no more complicated than that.
. . . with the satisfied air of a man who thinks he has an idea of his own because he has commented on the idea of another . . . - Alexandre Dumas 'The Count of Monte Cristo"
Dependz on the pocket emptying plan you are on. Many hav unlimited texts, but you coud also hav unlimited tok.
JO 753 wrote: Dependz on the pocket emptying plan you are on. Many hav unlimited texts, but you coud also hav unlimited tok.