Re: air conditioning may be making us fat

Stanislas de Kertanguy writes:

As you write it, you can't be beaten there. But what about enthrallment
then?

That requires communication, also, which in turn requires observance
of rules.

Technical reasons ? about handwriting ? I'm afraud I don't understand.

GSM phones and other methods of communication often require
touch-typing skills to be efficient, or use keyboards so small that
they are very awkward to use quickly even with a great deal of
practice. These problems have given rise to the abbreviated
communication you mention among teens (and others). If the problems
were not there, nobody would have invented such abbreviated writing.

I don't even use SMS for the most part, because I'm unwilling to write
in bizarre codes, and I prefer a full-size keyboard, because I can
touch-type very quickly on a standard keyboard.

It has much to do with imaginations. They use shortenings that are
extremely cunning and take time to decipher.

Hardly. They may seem cunning to you because you do not dedicate as
much time to coming up with them as they do.

Why is it that so many teens use them and comparatively fewer adults ?

Adults aren't big fans of SMS to begin with, and they can afford to
pay for voice calls instead of SMS messages. Teens spend almost all
their waking hours socializing, so they are strongly motivated to
communicate by voice and SMS. And SMS is cheaper and provides
deferred messaging.

Do you think that the vast majority uses it for its "nominal" purpose
100% of the time ?

Yes.

That leaves not a second for art and poetry ?

Art and poetry don't occupy much time in most people's lives.

I don't think so. Poetry is found into languages spoken centuries ago and
now dead. It's embedded into language, IMO.

It's a deformation of language, actually.

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