Here is an e-mail I received at my Pet Set address recently: r u around this wk? I was insensed, no greeting, no salutation, no details and no etiquette!
I could never send a note like that to someone (especially to her business address!) and expect to be taken seriously.
I’m assuming this person was text messaging me from her cell phone. Text messaging has mutilated our language into an unispired collection of abbreviations and acronyms. You know this is coming, the Motorola Shakespeare series: 2 b or not 2 b.
When I see commercials for text messaging, I always …read more