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TO BETTER UNDERSTAND modern miscommunication I dissected the words: text-message. With today's proliferation of BlackBerrys, cellphones, and wireless cafes, how you use the written word is akin to a fashion statement. Consider the ubiquitous famous quotations that have become a standard e-mail closer.
Why is it we suddenly love to express ourselves using someone else's words? Maybe the now-common practice of using words so frugally and abbreviated so harshly (c u 2nite) makes us want to give a little word gift at the end of our e-mails like an elaborately wrapped mint on a hotel pillow. But what we are really saying is, "I don't have time to write anything lovely just now, so here's a mental Bon-Bon by someone else."See the full content of this document
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Snipwits and E-Mail Etiquette
No wonder you can google the word "quotation" and see your computer screen erupt with thousands of sites offering ways to de...
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