About 17-18 years ago I began an email "pen pal" correspondence with a member of the Astronomy Club I belonged to. We would send each other emails which we answered shortly after they were recieved. Sometimes we would reply to the the email immediately, like answering a phone call. Was this considered "texting" in those days? Hal
Texting is being able to see the whole conversation unfolding, and both of you are writing to each other , maybe even at the same time , @Hal Pollner . It is very different than the old emails like you are talking about, which was actually closer akin to when we used to pass notes to our friends back in our school days. When I am messaging with someone, it shows up on a page and just scrolls along as we write back and forth to each other, much like a natural conversation would do, except we are typing it, and not speaking it. We both see both sides of the conversation at all times. It is a little similar to how the conversations go here on the forum, except that we are not always answering each other right away, and more than two people are engaging in the conversation here. I actually have one message conversation that includes myself and my three kids, and we just add things into it as we have something to say or respond to. The iPad (and any Apple device) has a messaging application and you can have several people participating in the conversation all at once. The closest you would have to that with emails would probably be an email with CC to other people, who would all receive the same email letter from you; but that is still totally different from sending texts and instant messaging with each other, and everyone seeing it immediately as it is written.
Another difference is that text messaging (texting) is limited to about 900 characters in total or, actually, to 150 odd characters if you don't want to have your message broken down into several chunks. So, in contrast to emails, texting forces you to KISS and to use abbreviations.
It has been my observation that the biggest difference is that one emails at home and texting is generally accomplished whilst holding up traffic at a stop light that has turned green for at least 10 or so seconds or whilst traveling down the highway at 60+MPH.
It's a common acronym meaning Keep It Short and Simple. I think Bobby used a variation on this, changing the last word if I remember correctly. ....and now did it again.
Actually, my version is a version of a version in which the last letter is more than slightly derogatory in that it denotes that the person might be mentally limited with a condition that some say is incurable. How’s that for sidestepping? Of course, I could have made it a KISS sort of a thing by simply writing the word....Stupid, (or stpd in text I believe) which is more along the lines of what I tell myself on the oft occasion of making things more difficult than it really is all by myself.
That's what I meant, Bobby, and, yes, there are situations when it's better not to make things more complicated than they are.
Indeed not, especially if one expects to text on any one of the items you are depicting. Texting is normally accomplished on a cellphone type of instrument which requires good eyesight, skinny finger tips, (as opposed to fat fingers)and the willingness to type on a small keypad stuff that makes no sense to anyone other than fellow texters. Now, it seems that in the last few years that some texters have decided to take away the “t” in text and replaced it with an “s” and ended the whole of it with the normal “ing”. This type of texting takes little or no practice nor expertise and is easily understood albeit there are many problems that might occur should one accidentally send it to their mother-in-law. THAT, would bring a whole new meaning to being caught with one’s pantaloons down.
I think the concept is pretty much the same. It's just an ongoing conversation you read instead of hear.