There are perfectly good abbreviations that have been used on narrow-bandwidth communication links for decades, some of them for a century. Why not just start using the Q- and Z-codes and the rest of the conventional Morse abbreviations?
Seriously, though. I much prefer telegraphic non-grammatical but mostly fully spelled style to the abundance of abbreviations.
Why not use Morse abbreviations? Because I don't know them. Off to Google, wheee! (I wonder how many folks reading my journal know the Q- and Z- codes.)
The non-grammatical style is something I resort to on a real keyboard when I'm Just Too Tired To Deal; it's also the first trick I resort to when sending an SMS message, but the message I tried to post this afternoon was too long even for that to work. (So I split it into two messages, only one of which seems to have gotten posted. Drat. This entry was the third, and an afterthought.)
Hmm. Evil plan sneaks into brain ... instead of using LJ's post-via-email feature, if I go back to mailing to myself and having Procmail pipe messages to a command-line LJ client for posting, I can stick an "expand the abbreviations" filter in between. The key question is: can I predict enough of the words I'm going to want to use and give them sufficiently short codes that I'll remember when I need them?
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Seriously, though. I much prefer telegraphic non-grammatical but mostly fully spelled style to the abundance of abbreviations.
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The non-grammatical style is something I resort to on a real keyboard when I'm Just Too Tired To Deal; it's also the first trick I resort to when sending an SMS message, but the message I tried to post this afternoon was too long even for that to work. (So I split it into two messages, only one of which seems to have gotten posted. Drat. This entry was the third, and an afterthought.)
Hmm. Evil plan sneaks into brain ... instead of using LJ's post-via-email feature, if I go back to mailing to myself and having Procmail pipe messages to a command-line LJ client for posting, I can stick an "expand the abbreviations" filter in between. The key question is: can I predict enough of the words I'm going to want to use and give them sufficiently short codes that I'll remember when I need them?