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Ok thanks. That's well under my age so I understand. Does it replace "TXT SPK" which I'm still too old to use and find terribly annoying?

(I'm sounding like a right grumpy old git here)




That sort of hyper-abbreviated writing has largely disappeared thanks to spell-check, predictive autocomplete, and so forth.

Emoji can certainly stand in for text, and I see plenty of comments and text messages that consist primarily of emoji. But just as often they will accompany text to add personality or mood the way ASCII smilies or textual kaomoji always have on bulletin boards.


>That sort of hyper-abbreviated writing has largely disappeared thanks to spell-check, predictive autocomplete, and so forth

Now that I think about it, you're completely write. It's been years since I've seen text-speak.


I think right autocompleted to write for you there.


Just think of Emoji as the ASCII smiley-faces- :) :( :D D: - version 3.0


Less of a replacement and more of a supplement.




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