On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang <sir...@sirtaj.net> wrote:

> It's an argument that applies equally well to SMS-speak in email. There's no
> loss in semantic content -

O RLY?

> after a fashion - so why does syntax matter?

Why does social signalling matter? One geek conceit is that only the
semantic content matters, and that the message is the medium.
Non-geeks find this amusingly naive verging on childish.

-- Charles

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