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brenlin7 t1_j6hmg2a wrote

Reply to comment by MoonageDayscream in Most longer words will soon disappear. by TheConstructorFL

me too... and you for some reason don't think we started this? please, we both had alphanumeric pagers with a very limited character space per message, and since we were charged by message... we definitely started this, the youth of today just perfected it

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MoonageDayscream t1_j6hnru8 wrote

I don't think they were shortened because they sound better, that is what I said. They were shortened because it was easier to type. Remember having to hit a number key three times to get a "C" or an "F"?

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brenlin7 t1_j6hp4hr wrote

omg that was horrible, you are correct though, we shortened them out of necessity, not out of an attempt to sound better

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