text message abbreviations used in speech!

[Erin McKean]

check out this link in the Times Online, thanks to Larry Urdang:

If this isn't completely apocryphal (the evidence is on the order of
"a friend of my cousin said") it's verrry interesting. Much like the
stories of people writing in Palm-script on whiteboards in Silicon
Valley.

--Erin
editor at verbatimmag.com

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>          <a
>href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-305830,00.html">Initial
>reaction is kiss and make up</a></b>
>        Text messaging has spread into business meetings in a bizarre
>attempt to save time, research has found
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