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Thanks Ramya for your comments. I believe looking at this problem solely in the context of “word truncation” provides 1 dimension. But it needs to be viewed in conjunction with our mindset to by-pass context.

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Thanks Kumar for your response. That is a good idea – similar to “auto-summarize” feature we have in Word? So I write a 600-word blog, you can choose to read it as it is or a 100-word summary or a 100-char tweet?

What I meant was, akin to the OSI layers in the computer networks, if we have an interpreter / translator kind of application, which is an extension or replacement to the current SMS Inbox. We could have it read and interpret and translate all the short form words (wrds) and deliver a full form version to the end user.

Like wise, we could have the user have T9 like inputting to compose a long form message and the reverse happens to get the msg to a short form before it gets transmitted.

Quite achievable, but needs some more work. Would you agree?

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Kumar

Nice post. I had to read the first 2 lines twice to understand what was being said. You may call me behind current times. But then I prefer to use ‘complete’ words rather than short forms.

I do SMS but then always use T9 and I make it a point not to add words to the in-built dictionary. I wonder how many people who sms even know how to write using T9 (I have taught my sister’s college going friends a few years back on how to use T9). With the current age when SMS’es are literally free, I think we can all afford to write complete words.

Previously there was blog and now there is Twitter. Now we are able to manage within 160 characters. Times are changing. So maybe time will come when we will be publishing our thoughts within 100 characters using only legitimate words. (I glanced through my Twitter page to check if there are people using short forms and surprisingly I could find none)