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

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>>Date:         Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:48:24 +1100
>>From: Tristan <kesuari@...>
>>'Face to face' apparently (i.e. IRL/In Real Life) (I had to check it
>>to. It seems some people don't know the real way to distinguish
>>between the real world and the Net...). [...]
>
> Face to face means being in the same room. Speaking on the phone or
> writing a postcard counts as RL contact too --- to me, even sending
> email about private matters would, once you know someone personally.
As one of the Psych lecturers at school today proved, not necessarily.
The La Trobe Uni Campus at Albury-Wodonga offers Psychology but doesn't
have any lecturers in the subject, it seems. So they have the lectures
relayed by video from the Bundoora Campus (the main one, in an outer
northern suburb of Melbourne). He said it was 'nice to meet them
face-to-face', but they were a few hundred kilometres apart.

I guess I could count the phone as RL, I guess, but you couldn't meet
someone IRL over the phone.

Tristan.