![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I still remember the joy of entering the unlimited text era on cellphones a few years ago, and finally being able to type (almost) as much as I like in a text without worrying about how much it will cost. Because it takes less precious characters to call someone a moron than to patiently and politely explain what they did wrong and why it was wrong.Įither that, or people start to use xtrmly abrvt wrdng to sqz a few xtr chrs in, in a way reminding of some greybeard programmers who write code as if variable names were still limited to 8 characters. In my own experience, arbitrary character count limitations rather tend to lead people (myself included) to more simplistic thinking, and thus to more insulting behaviour. Perhaps that’s why I rather like Twitter – it’s hard to squeeze off a really nasty insult in 140 characters. I encounter a distressingly large number of people in forums that seem to have missed the benefits of a patient grandparent. How would they ever learn manners otherwise? □ It’s possible that dealing with my many grandchildren has led me to favor patient explanation rather than insults. ![]()
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