Txt msg slang slipping into English

My late friend, Henry Watson, spent two years talking me into using e-mail. He even flew out and plugged me into a modem the size of toaster oven.

[Ted]

I must be some sort of in betweenie. I love to send and receive SMSes for all the "not evil" reasons listed in the article. On the other hand (literally!), I insist on having some sort of full qwerty thumbboard, because I will not let myself use the abbreviations.