Samuel’s Blog (not quite weekly) Poll: Proper English In Text Messages
August 18th, 2008 at 07:48am
As tempted as I am to run a guaranteed vote-grabber poll along the lines of “How interested are you in the Olympic Games”, I will restrain myself and run a more interesting poll.
In the last few days I’ve been wondering whether I am alone in my quest to use proper English in text messages and instant messaging. With a few minor exceptions, I tend to use full sentences and words, plus punctuation, in text messages and instant messaging. I’m fairly certain that, in doing so, I’m placing myself in a very small minority, but I’d be interested to see whether this is true. As such, the poll for this week:
- Mostly abbreviations
- An approximately equal combination of abbreviations and proper English
- Mostly proper English
Total Votes: 67
Started: August 18, 2008
The last poll’s results:
- Made you more willing to fly
- Made you less willing to fly
- Not affected your willingness to fly
Total Votes: 21
Started: August 1, 2008
I can’t be bothered going through the logs to check, but I’d say that it’s a fairly good bet that somebody was having a bit too much fun finding ways to vote multiple times in that poll.
Results of previous polls can be seen by clicking here.
Samuel
Entry Filed under: Weekly Poll
