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Háázhó’ógo bee ádíní

 

Dinéena bizaad doo shi?

 

Ánáádí'ní

 

I hate text speak too.
Things like:
GR8 C U L8ter
just drive me mad.

 

A long time ago, when SMS stuff was limited to 216 characters, I had an idea to write a piece of software that would compress normal text into text speak and back again, as a means of saying more for less. But I couldn't be bothered, and I'm glad I didn't because it was a daft idea

 

Not so daft as in those days with limited number of chars and those stupid phone keyboards that had "abc" "def" and so on and to get a "b" one had to press the "abc" key twice in quick succession then wait then type the next char was a real pain.

These days pretty much everything has a full QWERTY keyboard so there is no excuse for lazy typing.

 

And sort of related, who remembers ASCII art?
I wonder if it will work on this forum?

_________.-"____;-"_______\
________/______/___________|
_______|______|________=___|
_______;____.-'\__.-')_____|
________`-'______|___|____;
_________________|__/;___/_______,
_______________.-.;.-=-./-""-.-`__`
______________/___|_____\_____\-`_`,
_____________|____|______|_____|
_____________|____|______|_____|
______________\0_/_\0___/______/
___________.--.-""-.`--'_____.'
__________(#___)__________,__\
__________('--'__________/\`__\
___________\_______,,__.'______\
____________`-.______.'\________\
________________`""`____\________\

Seems to.
Can others see Odie the dog or is it all just garbled text?

 

I see dog

 

Thanks @Jiffy

 

GRRRRRRRRRREAT.