A friend told me there is an application for Ipod or Iphone that allows you to record your voice and then have the resulting sound entered as text on your computer. Anyone have any idea what this is or how it works? Seems like this would be a great writer’s tool.

“Wnt 2 mt @ SB ltr?” “U’ll bbs, rt?” “LoL w/e u wnt 2 do.” I find these all perfectly acceptable, when *talking to friends* via txt or IM.

It’s disconcertingly unprofessional, though, to use all but the more emotive shorthand in conversations with clients. It drives me batty when someone, who is supposedly highly professional, sends me instructions riddled with acronyms and shorthands. Not only does it make the conversation much more casual than it should be, it adds a whole new level of vagueness that makes completing the project [correctly] next to impossible.

The thought of it makes me twitch.

I admit to using LOL a fair amount, but in general I find it takes me much less time to just write the word properly than it would to figure out how to shorten it. I use proper English out of laziness…how ironic Even texting on my phone, I use predictive text so there’s no excuse.

I admit to using some textspeak when I am actually, you know, texting. But when I Skype or email, I always spell everything out.