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They grew up before t9.
What's t9?
T9 was a rapid entry system for sending texts using a number pad on a phone.
Instead of doing hello as 44 33 555 555 666 you could do 43556 and it'd predict 'hello'.
Holy shit, someone that ACTUALLY knows what T9 was!
Most people think that T9 was the method of typing on the telephone keypad, but no its an improvement on that!
Predictive text was another name for it.
Ooookay... How's that relevant here tho... I'm so confused
UraniumBlazer is using contractions such as u instead of you.
Back in the early days of texting, this saved time, and potentially money as well since you paid for each 144 (or was it 160) characters.
And in the modern era there's generally no practical reason to use "u" for "you" and so forth anymore, and doing so just makes you seem weirdly lazy, elderly, childish, and really out of touch all at once.
Oh. Ok. Ig I am "weirdly lazy" then. No harm in that I suppose.
You're only saving two letters, while also sounding childish when "u" type like that... there's just no need to type like that anymore.
Ok. But I like typing like that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yea but the people who use this today grew up after T9.
bro sounds soo drunk
I swear I'm not. I'm just rlly rlly confused with why people r saying the things they're saying. I don't understand.
I was already an adult when T9 was still a thing and never texted like this. I could write out full sentences while my phone was still in my pocket.