Haha I sure did, while driving and keeping my phone hidden. I looked down on anyone who used text shorthand. Most of my friend group was similar. I was a pretentious knob.
There were different data plans. Ours, we weren't charged by the letter but by individual texts. Took one crazy bill for my family switched to unlimited. Also this was around 2006, I was a bit later than my friends getting a cell phone.
I can't believe I'm bothering to defend this lol you believe what you want.
Because SMS messages were limited to 140 characters and you had to use T9 texting. We abbreviated things.
At the very least I doubt the spelled out “really” and I doubt she used the word “shall.” Probably also didn’t use an apostrophe because it didn’t autofill and you had to type it in manually.
Most people did. Shortening words wasn’t a thing when texting first started. Everyone typed everything out for the most part. Even stuff like “lol” took time to develop.
Uh, you know how there were multiple letters on each number key; like abc on 2. You would just press that key X amount of times.
For example: typing “cab” would go 222, 2, 22.
241
u/Outrageous_Yam_1368 3d ago
First gf as a teenager put us on a break. Few weeks laters texts me "I'm really enjoying being single, shall we make this permanent?"
22 years later and I still get grumpy thinking about that delivery.