Re: txt msgs & BrSc

At 8:45 pm -0400 15/6/01, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
>> It seems that ordinary, linguistically naive people have not the slightest
>> problem in using symbols in this way.
>
>Some, but a lot of people find things like "R" for "are" and "U" for
>"you" to be very annoying.
Good point - but the important question, it seems to me, is: (a) whether
people find it annoying because it is a 'distortion' of English, (b) or it
is the use of single letters & non-alphabetic symbols to express syllables
and/or morphemes that causes annoyance.

If (a), then that is not relevant as "BrSc" has as yet no written form to
be distorted; but if (b) is this case, then this does have a bearing on any
decisions I make about the written form of BrSc.

Ray.

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