Montyland » shorthand http://www.stephenmontagna.com a blog and website | www.stephenmontagna.com Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 OMG, Twitter & text abbr. are nothing new ftw http://www.stephenmontagna.com/2009/05/omg-twitter-text-abbr-are-nothing-new-ftw/ http://www.stephenmontagna.com/2009/05/omg-twitter-text-abbr-are-nothing-new-ftw/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 15:02:50 +0000 admin http://www.stephenmontagna.com/?p=123 A very nice piece by Rebecca Bizonet at the Heny Ford Blog; clearing out archives at the Henry Ford Museum, she has encountered a fair number of telegrams, and guess what – abbreviations and shortcuts associated with Twitter, texting, and the like, are nothing new; our predecessors had to use shortcuts too. Not only for Telegrams, which could get pricey if one got wordy, but also because, as Bizonet credits Stephen Fry for pointing out, during the 17th and 18th centuries paper was a precious commodity and therefore a kind of shorthand was used in order to cram as much content onto a single sheet as possible.

Of Secret Codes, Abbreviations, and Knowledge Lost and Gained « The Henry Ford Blog.

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