Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

I am always texting!

Clearly texting, SMS and chat are very different than writing a letter or email.

I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.

As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.

I find texting to be kind of a safe space.

How many of you text message? It's a great way of not communicating.

I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.

E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list.

'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

I don't write letters anymore.

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

I have never sent a fax, and I've never even sent a text message.

Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.

Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.