| ??? 06/02/05 20:29 Read: times |
#94278 - Compression Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Abbreviating text is like lossy compression - you actually throw away information, and the result is always of poorer quality than the original.
The more you abbreviate (compress), the worse it gets, and the more likely it is that the post will be misunderstood, or even totally incomprehensible. There is no need for it - and it actually makes things worse! |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| how dangerous the infantile use of SMS c | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I'll fess up. I said it. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| TV = TeleVision | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| But... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Was it Winston Churchill | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No. It was George Bernard Shaw | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Here we go again | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| diverse readers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Excellent reply | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| worth a +1 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Abbreviations | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Compression | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| OICU812 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Non-english speakers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That's what I'd have thought... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Phonetic language | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| re: phonetic language | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| "Indian" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Indian Languages | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| errmm | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No need to apologize | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Indians | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Speaking phonetically | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Hmmm...... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| My apologies | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| shires | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Re: shires | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| shires | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Hmmm | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| :-) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Its about time | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not so ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| 4 thooz liveeng foonetikalee ;-) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You think SMS is bad ..... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What a completely useless thread! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Perhaps not so useless | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| True, but.... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Has the world gone mad? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
typo | 01/01/70 00:00 |