Texting can lead to confusion

Link: The Chaser – Text message lacks nuance

Critics have slammed an SMS sent by account executive Morgan Teuber to a group of his friends, claiming the tone of his brief communication is unclear. The text message, which stated a desire “2 C TRANSFORMERS ITLL B COOL”, has divided recipients, who are unable to reach consensus on whether Teuber was serious, joking or something else entirely.

“I’m not sure what to write back,” said SMS receiver Karen Hite. “Both ‘lol yeah right’ and ‘how about thurs nite?’ are problematic, given that I’m not sure what he’s is trying to say. I don’t want to enthusiastically agree and look like an idiot…but on the other hand, I don’t want to make a joke about it and hurt Morgan’s feelings if he really does want to see Transformers.”