Flaws and other nuances in how we text is very personal and can be used as a way to detect if you are still you, or if at least you are you but you're a bit off. (ie drunk, sick, in a bad situation)
As in, I type youtube but it gets autocorrected to YouTube. I don't want to give that much respect to the brand!
Less irrational was when helping my parents shop for new windows while they were doing a remodel. Yes, keyboard, I mean physical windows for the house not Windows the OS, please stop.
Also interesting how the millennials and late X-ers (I'm one of the latter) tend to put less and less emphasis on trying to copy younger people (like zoomers) in order "to remain cool" (for lack of a better expression), which wasn't always the case (the "fellow kids" [2] meme being the best example).
[1] https://www.reddit.com/gallery/12rdwdy
[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-do-you-do-fellow-kids
As a late X-er: I can relate. I kind of love my forties, overall, mostly because I've come to like me. I just am, and a lot of days, that is enough for me. Who needs cool when you can like yourself sufficiently, and have enough respect from those around you?
Let the insecure be consumed by their status games, and the young obsessed with signaling their relevance. I'll be doing my own thing.
Oh, the horror.
I text like I type/write, and even did with a dumb phone with a number pad and did so on USENET and BBSes. Why? Because text is a notoriously more difficult medium than talking in person through which to convey meaning.
Communication is hard! Face-to-face is hard even with people you know and who know you well. Text is much harder, so removing as much ambiguity as possible is desired.
Why should the reader be left to figure out if he's reading Tumblr dialect or Reddit dialect. If you want to be understood, if you actually want your message to "translate" as closely as possible to your meaning, the onus is on you.
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Ahem
I really do think that the author of the article has a good point.
