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

K'tabbe John Cowan:

> Isaac Penzev scripsit:
>
> > <friendly sarcasm> You guys are indeed barbarians there in the West!
Long
> > live prescriptivism! </friendly sarcasm>.
>
> My dear Snakie, don't forget who we are:
I hope y'all, ppl, and you, dear John, understand that this phrase was a
129% joke.
Hehe. Humor.

> (The full poem, which is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York
> Harbor, is at http://www.soros.org/emma/html/colossus.html ; the
> "twin cities" mentioned are New York and Brooklyn, which at the time were
> separate.)
<humor> I'm impressed ;-) How pathetic! </humor>

Yitzik...
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...who does not want to write an essay on the topic "Why do I loathe USA?"

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