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The most viral/popular acronyms are easily pronounceable, I think. Acronyms like lol, rofl, afaik, imho etc. Not that you go around saying them all the time, but you can easily pronounce them in your own head so I think they tend to stick there and flow into your text easily. Maybe something along the lines of "sro" (short reply ok) would be better ...
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Well, we already understand and follow RSVP, and that's not even English.
That developed organically over many years. RSVP is an now a valid (if peculiar) English word.
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This is not social awkwardness. This is social efficiency.
No, you've got it all wrong! Geeks aren't socially awkward, they're socially "efficient" Social conventions aren't established by protocol drafts, they're organic. Also, people write long replies for a reason. Wording indicates emotional state. If you have trouble reading emotional state, you don't care. If, like most people, you do care, then this proposal is ridiculous. An example: "How about we schedule lunch next…
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You say efficient, we say awkward.
Communication is about consensus. You can contend that you're right all day long, but so long as you put others off you'll be wrong.
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This is not social awkwardness. This is social efficiency.
No, you've got it all wrong! Geeks aren't socially awkward, they're socially "efficient" Social conventions aren't established by protocol drafts, they're organic. Also, people write long replies for a reason. Wording indicates emotional state. If you have trouble reading emotional state, you don't care. If, like most people, you do care, then this proposal is ridiculous. An example: "How about we schedule lunch next…
"Can't. Next month?"
This is what I use Jabber for--Jabber messages have an implicit VSRE attached. In practice, it's just like email except that the replies are usually short. For me, Jabber messages get delivered to the same places on both my computer and phone, and take about the same amount of effort to respond to. It has the added benefit of potentially being a real-time conversation as well--this sometimes happens with a flurry of…
> I was hoping Google Wave would take off an neatly combine the two. This is the best thing about Facebook messages: they’re hafway between chat and email and a conversation can seamlessly morph from one form to the other and back.
- You can't read them without announcing that you did. - FB parses and might even censor you message if it contains blacklisted domains.
Do you still beat your wife? -VSRE
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It gets suspicious if you write this and you don't have an iPhone ;)
"Sent from my Samsung" "Sent from my Windows Phone" "Sent from my $OEM" They all follow the same pattern these days.