Re: [lace-chat] Re: Language Evolution/texting

2005-09-03 Thread A & Y Farrell
. Texting is, at least, "clean" (since there are no > rules, none can be broken). And it's innovative. And it's fun. At its > best, it's like a puzzle, full of subtexts and innuendoes, just like > lace is. For all I know, it may be the future of English :) Trouble is DH makes up his own text lang

[lace-chat] Re: Language Evolution/texting

2005-09-03 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Sep 3, 2005, at 8:08, Margery Allcock wrote: We were taught (in SCOTLAND, in the 50s) as follows: Yeah, 1956 for me - I was 7, refused to learn piano (*all* my little friends wre learning piano and it seemed like supreme pain in the butt), so my Mother thought that learning English (after