I've been doing a little thinking about the many forms that modern letters come in. Traditional letters have sort of transformed into emails, and old school notes have turned into text messages. But what gets lost electronically? Yes, emails can have fancy "stationary" that creates a background for the content, and you can pick the font that you type it up in, but you can't really put your signature on it (unless you create a jpeg of your signature and paste it into the bottom of every email). The handwritten quality gets lost. Notes, simple notes that you pass to each other in class lose the fun of folding it up into a paper football or a paper samurai hat. You can't fold a text message into a samurai hat. Chatspeak, or txtsk, is a whole other element to texting. It's not even like its consistent either.
Two different translations of the same sentence are seen here: The first translation- n my opiniN, txt spk cn gt vry confusn, seriSly. I mean hu cn undRst& ll dis? dats w@ QWERTY keyboards wr inventd 4!
And the Second- n my opinion, txt spk cn git v confusing, CreslE. I mean hu cn undRstNd aL this? datz wot QWERTY keyboards wer invented for!
And that's not even how I would text it- IMO, txt spk can get vry confusing, srsly. I mean, who can understand all this? Thats what QWERTY keybrds were invented 4!
Not to mention whole lists of acronyms and short hands! This is just one of many.
Oh, modern technology...
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