>>When it comes to texting they are true democrats. If they text me it is usually only for the merriment of watching me try to text in return. The girls with flying fingers think it's hilarious seeing someone text with one finger. Ingrates.
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>speaking of texting... in watching various TV shows and anime one could get surprised at the speed at which folks can message from a cellphone using the numeric keypad. One thing that I did notice however -- though the written language of Japanese is much more complex than English, the predictive input mode using only numeric keypad is easier to use for Japanese than English. Ironically part of it is because of the greater number of glyphs utilized. The other part appears to be connected to the "hodge-podge" nature of English language that makes rule-based entry more problematic (i.e. there are more exceptions to rules than there are rules).
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>If one thought "1337" ("leet") was hard to decipher, "gyaru-moji" is ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyaru-moji ) worse IMHO...

Got some glimpse of the french leet, courtesy of our youngest, and it's hilarious. Something along the lines of using K7 to mean cassette, but much more diverse. The few bits I was shown were ingenious and funny at the same time.