20 yrs ago, all this wld have been incomprehensible. Bcoz that was b4 txt mssging hd arrived. 2day, tho, thnx 2 the ubiquity of SMS, every1 knos how 2 use abbrevs, even if predictive txt smtimes leads 2 mudflaps. Whoops. Mishaps.
Ovr long periods, mnd U, it does get exhausting. So we shall write properly for a while, in a bid to make you :-). And, after all, when the first text message was sent, by Neil Papworth, a British software engineer (to Richard Jarvis, of Vodafone) he wrote “Happy Christmas” rather than “HPY XMAS” as might be considered quite