Re: FN-FORUM whets the best way to get business

date posted 1st August 2002 17:28

Nigell has that 'feature' on his phone and has never been able to work out
how to turn it off - damned annoying, plus it takes anyone over the age of
16 three hours to text anything anyway so why bother?

Best abbreviation of a word yet for SMS/IVS purposes K? instead of OK?
Bizarre
Regards
Carla

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on 1/8/02 4:08 pm, Andrew Mottershead at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

> You should try using my phone - it's got this pre-emptive function which
> I cannot get my head around. I try to key in "hello" and get "hide"....
> I now just phone the other bod up.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Paul J White
>> Sent: 01 August 2002 16:54
>> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM whets the best way to get business
>>
>>
>>> I agree that this can be a problem if you don't check spelling and
>>> punctuation before contacting a client. But this is ONLY a
>> forum does
>>> it really matter is someone forgets to use
>> the
>>> spellchecker?
>>>
>> Oh, so sloppy spelling and grammar are no good for clients,
>> but good enough for us on the forum? I disagree, as you owe
>> it to yourself and others to convey your message or question
>> in a way that is not open to misinterpretation or plain
>> ridicule. SMS is an exception, and getting a highly
>> condensed, yet understandable, message into 140 characters is
>> an art in itself.
>>
>> Paul (Asst. Chief Linguistic Pedant to whoever is in charge today ;-)
>>
>>