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The new shorthand?
Okay, okay, I know I have done the SMS Thema almost to death, but hey, I’m on the other side of the world. What is anyone going to do about it? Phil (who you can find down in Austria, or over at Phil’s Blogging) recently unearthed the fact that using SMS-slang instead of full words and sentences is more efficient. Which is important these days, as he so eloquently puts it, “b/c time=$”. And since the old art of shorthand seems to be dead or dying for all but crazy investigative journo-types, perhaps SMS is the condensed language of the future. And maybe Germany can lead the way! I mean, they’re into efficiency, right?
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Hey, I recently realized that my nickname philly can be expressed in such a cool German-effiecient way applying the rules of the SMS lingo: phil A (phil eeeyy)
Cool huh?
Lead the way? Oh my… rushing and pushing linguistic developments is pure actionism and foolishness. Language develops on its own, without someone deliberately starting to use new forms. It has nothing to do with a nation’s alleged love of efficiency, it just happens.
A rather quick example would be the degradation of politeness in German casual language after two world wars, and it still took a few decades.
“Grabendeutsch” is not very eloquent and the Nazis looked down upon COURTesy as being reactionary.
The Nazis and the trenches are gone, but the daily “Scheiße” remains – and nobody realizes it’s actually a “bad” word.
I am not sure how much of this guide is meant seriously. I think it is fun to give it a try and think about the option of using dz guide n evrEdA lNijw
Funnily enough, shorthand (t-line) is sms language – that’s the firststep. Learning t-line, you first remove vowels and double letters from all words, then further reduce common letter groups, like ing, and then further reduce them into one-stroke symbols.