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kajarainbow) wrote2006-04-11 10:46 am
kajarainbow) wrote2006-04-11 10:46 am
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Random deafness tidbit: TTY shorthand
Also, Internetspeak is actually normal politeness for TTY. ;)
For one thing, it's an even more realtime medium than IM. The text scrolls right on the little screen-strip as you type them. And you HAVE to take turns, and signal the end of each turn by entering "GA" (short for "Go Ahead") to tell the other person it's okay to start typing, because if you don't take turns, it becomes a jumble of both people's text. "SK", short for "Stop Keying", signals that the communication's ending. "GA to SK" is often used to signal that you're bringing the conversation to an end by your next message.
So, there's a lot of brisk and brief stuff like "thk u" and such. The funny thing is that I've been ingrained with it such that it seems like perfectly fine and polite stuff to do on the TTY, but grates terribly on me when I see it on the Internet. But then again, the TTY arguably needs those shorthands far more than most communication mediums on the Internet do. It's far more raw real-time. You HAVE to sit at the TTY watching it constantly because the previous text will quickly scroll off the limited-space screen. The traditional solution for this has been adding a printer into the TTY that prints out the conversation as it happens. Not all TTYs have this. In addition, you might be talking via relay with someone who's hearing, and typing's inherently slower than speaking.
Given all that, I instinctively tend toward longhand anyway. But it doesn't bother me to see shorthand on TTY.
For some reason, it bothers me to see it on the Internet. Different contexts, I suppose.
For one thing, it's an even more realtime medium than IM. The text scrolls right on the little screen-strip as you type them. And you HAVE to take turns, and signal the end of each turn by entering "GA" (short for "Go Ahead") to tell the other person it's okay to start typing, because if you don't take turns, it becomes a jumble of both people's text. "SK", short for "Stop Keying", signals that the communication's ending. "GA to SK" is often used to signal that you're bringing the conversation to an end by your next message.
So, there's a lot of brisk and brief stuff like "thk u" and such. The funny thing is that I've been ingrained with it such that it seems like perfectly fine and polite stuff to do on the TTY, but grates terribly on me when I see it on the Internet. But then again, the TTY arguably needs those shorthands far more than most communication mediums on the Internet do. It's far more raw real-time. You HAVE to sit at the TTY watching it constantly because the previous text will quickly scroll off the limited-space screen. The traditional solution for this has been adding a printer into the TTY that prints out the conversation as it happens. Not all TTYs have this. In addition, you might be talking via relay with someone who's hearing, and typing's inherently slower than speaking.
Given all that, I instinctively tend toward longhand anyway. But it doesn't bother me to see shorthand on TTY.
For some reason, it bothers me to see it on the Internet. Different contexts, I suppose.
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The abbreviation-filled world of Morse Code seems fine where it is, but man does that grate on me on the internet. I always try to write longhand whenever possible, including wearing out my thumbs out to send ENTIRE WORDS when cell phone texting.
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