Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.
Writing is a communication.
We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.
No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.
If you can talk, you can write.
Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.