Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

John Cowan wrote:
> Certainly not.  Illiteracy is a huge social cost.  For example, it
> prevents one from enjoying such .sigs as the one attached to this message.
>
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> Her he asked if O'Hare Doctor tidings sent from far     John Cowan
> coast and she with grameful sigh him answered that      www.ccil.org/~cowan
> O'Hare Doctor in heaven was. Sad was the man that word  www.reutershealth.com
> to hear that him so heavied in bowels ruthful. All      jcowan@reutershealth.com
> she there told him, ruing death for friend so young,
> algate sore unwilling God's rightwiseness to withsay.   _Ulysses_, "Oxen"
I'm sorry, but I'm reasonably literate but I can't enjoy that.

Tristan.