On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's an argument that applies equally well to SMS-speak in email. There's no > loss in semantic content - O RLY? > after a fashion - so why does syntax matter? Why does social signalling matter? One geek conceit is that only the semantic content matters, and that the message is the medium. Non-geeks find this amusingly naive verging on childish. -- Charles
