On Friday 19 September 2008 13:05:55 Nalin Savara wrote: > > with the next 1 billion internet users expected to access net frm > mobile devices, IMHO it's the ones that make sharp remarks abt SMS > lingo that need a SMS dictionary--- rather than me.
If you had been using a language, then it would be a lesser problem. The point is that 'SMS lingo' is not a *language*. If all you people writing sms-speak would write the same word the same way all the time, you would probably have a better case to argue about it being an acceptable form of communication and perhaps, the rest of us would cringe and accept it as yet another inevitable sign of us getting older. But you do not, and every person writing in such a form has a different interpretation of how to communicate. Actually, I would consider this as "noise", in a community where written communication is the major mode of how people interact. So till sms-speak becomes a "language", it is going to be considered to be an inferior and an unwanted form of communication here. Nobody is going to ban people writing in such a form, but people who could have had a more fruitful discussion with you, might not. P.S. I consider this discussion to be very relevant to this list, as this is a frequently discussed topic (and is actually mentioned in out list guidelines) and am therefore not marking this mail OT. <offtopic> I am actually a bit surprised how a mere collective suggestion from people about writing in the official language of this list has to go towards accusations of genuflecting to the British, especially when you are arguing for a (probably american) variation of this language itself. :) It has been 60+ years since we sent the Britishers out, and the fact that we are still using English should amply show that it is as native to this land by now as any other state language. In fact, more people use English virtually as their first language than there are native speakers for many dialects in this country (citation needed :-P ) </offtopic> - Sandip _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
