Yo Lad Jst Gt Ngaged C U L8r Ok?

The text message from one of my very best friends, of about eight or so years, informing me that he has gotten engaged to his long-term girlfriend. Appropriate way to tell me, eh? Not like he texted me in the middle of the night, drunk. This was in the middle of the day. Ah, text messages… is there nothing they can’t do?

I did get dumped by text once… Anyone beat these two?

What next? YR MDR WAS N ACIDNT N SHE DED?
NCLR WR IN PKSTN?
BSH SSN8TED?

People just can’t be bothered to talk to each other.
Ah well.
That was a beautiful language we had once.

If Hamlet were alive today, I bet he’d be texting 2 B R NT 2 B THT IS TH ?

Huh. I thought your friend was telling you he got one of these.

I was going to offer my condolences.

I don’t know anybody who texts like that… What the? Here in California we’ve been using adaptive input for at least 4-5 years now and you have to be completely illiterate to not be able to use adaptive input faster than … typing like that.