Shorthand Thoughts

My own epigrammatic thoughts this week, the culmination of a flurry of texts with a friend …

Today linguists bemoan the degeneration of language into ‘txtese’ (yes, that really is a word). I try not to take my text messages into revolting territory, and I even proofread them, but it is amusing to consider the notion that the necessary brevity of text messages may bring epigrams back into fashion. Or even the eighteenth-century style salon and an elegant exchange of witticisms. Via text of course.