>Why wait till then. Today's texters haven't a chance of knowing real spelling if it hit them in the SIM card.
>What bugs me about these abbrev.s is the OVERUSE of 4 and 2. Hardly a thing is advertised nowadays without the likes of:
>"The best phone 4 U"
>"Appearing 2nite only"
>

Actually, I seem to remember reading something that indicated that kids do understand the difference between using the shorthand for their casual talk and the correct version for real writing.

Tamar