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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2011-09-14 08:00 am
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Telegraph text-speak

[identity profile] charleysjob.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
I had noticed that a few months ago - in "The Autobiography of Mark Twain" they include exact transcripts of telegraph messages from his papers; and there's a lot of text-style abbreviation. "U" "Pls" "4" etc. (I assume you paid based on length?)

I wonder if there were 1890s grammar-nazis whining about the inevitable demise of the English language too?

[identity profile] strawberryfrog.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
There may be something wrong with the SMBC links today.

[identity profile] artkouros.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
particularly good today

[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
> the amount of time at which this link will receive half of the clicks it will ever receive after it’s reached its peak

Whoa whoa whoa.
Either that is really badly phrased, or it's not a half-life. You don't *know* and you can't ever know how many clicks the link will EVER receive. It's quite possibly an infinite number, even if it decays to one click a week, that still adds up to infinity when you say 'ever'.

I *think* what they mean is the time it takes to half the number of clicks per minute it's getting, surely? At least that's the thing that analogous to atomic half-life.

[identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, it is odd taht Labour are being so silent on this issue about the rampaging feral rich. But then I suppose there might be some embaressment because New Labour largely set them loose to run free.

[identity profile] dalglir.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Liked the closing comments of the feral rich article :)
Edited 2011-09-14 14:57 (UTC)

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Is "feral" the new "toxic"?

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Does this mean the party leaders will encourage gay rights and attempt to end homophobia in the UK as well, or are they going to focus on the more flagrant abuses abroad?

[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Re. The Rules of Productivity, I am well and often painfully aware that on slow sleep, I am very stupid. I actually feel stupid at those times -- of not having my usual facility of putting ideas together.
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