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Yeah, I don’t disagree with the absurdity of this, but also the english language (nor any language) didn’t evolve to facilitate instantaneous communication through text. As a result when you just talk normally with someone through text with perfect spelling (thnx spellcheck autocorrect for flattening the evolution of new words and phrases…) and no silly words like “lol” or emojis either, there is a gargantuan amount of information lost. This can both lead to people misunderstanding your specific intention but also people overanalyzing your text to check for different possible meanings/tones.

A simple example of what I am talking about is how perfectly spelled short texts often come off as passive aggressive.

We need to evolve language to account for new ways of using it, and that is going to feel a bit silly and awkward, but this is better than the alternative of just letting language be indefinitely terrible at communicating effectively through real-time chat.