On 3/21/2012 3:22 PM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
> notbob wrote:
>>
>> What I find particularly amazing is the abhorance to using the command
>> line interface (CLI). You know ...like DOS. Yet, seems today's youth
>> have no problem knocking out five or six dozen text msgs per day using
>> only their thumbs, without looking! A new breed of touch typers who
>> hate using text commands. How bizarre is that?
>
> Using the CLI is a language so it requires skill in a language other
> than English. Doing text messages is theoretically in English so it
> only requires enough English to know how to reduce it to texting
> abbreviations. Not bizzare once I thought of it in those terms.

I think the main difference is that texting is totally casual and done
from a much more difficult to use keyboard so people don't expect good
grammar and spelling. So someone could write almost nonsense such as
"yer jes ppl" .

If you are entering something on a command line you need to know the
proper spelling and syntax such as "your just people" to accomplish
anything..