Posted by Laura_V on 3/14/10 4:42pm
Msg #327212

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The kids (15-30+) all use text talk because it is so fast.

I've observed many times that people who text a lot also think faster than I remember thinking at that age. Especially the young guys who still had trouble with speaking around girls in high school and college anyway.


Last Sunday, one of my clients brought a collegue for notarization work and lunch here at the golf club cafe. I would guess that man is around 32 but I have a hard time telling when the person is Japanese. My client is around 45 or so.

They both text all the time (my client checks his iPhone while I notarize). Japanese fellow and fell into a VERY fast conversation about Mortgage Accelerator Helocs and how the Canadians are placing them in entities for tax and investment purposes. My nice client didn't know about this but was excited because Japan and I were excited. Client threw in questions like a baseball machine on speed drive.

All three of us were talking like avalanches we were so excited and having so much fun. No one cared a jot whether anyone was interrupting anyone else. (I LOVE conversing this way!)


A few days after that fun lunch, my client called me and asked me to explain what Japan and I were talking about.

Instead of writing YouKnowWhat here I'll say -
I wanted to laugh loudly but that would be insulting so I didn't.


And people wonder why we love our work!

Reply by cawest/PA on 3/14/10 4:45pm
Msg #327215

thanks

I took me a while to learn to translate what my kids were messaging me!
So far with customers I have been quitelucky, they all write in english LOL

Have a good one

Reply by Laura_V on 3/14/10 6:49pm
Msg #327222

I hear you! I always have texting disabled on my phones

I type slow and people think I want to start typing on 1/8" buttons?


AND I had an old Palm Pilot that I loved. (Still have one - somewhere.) I used to buy around a dozen novels, load them onto PP, and take it with me to Europe for 2-3 weeks. I spend all day at museums, etc, so my legs usually hurt due to standing on marble by dinnertime. So, evenings were spent reading a book. I read 1 around every 1.5 days so that little gem saved me tons of money at the English language bookstore.

I hope to get back to Europe spring next year. If I get an iPhone for this and future trips, I'll have to hide it from my clients.



This tech era was when Fred Davis (who wrote the MacIntosh Bible) told me how to hook it up to my cell phone for internet connection. THAT long ago.

One could buy a fold-up plug-in keyboard that - when opened - was just big enough for me to comfortably type at my then "fast" 60wpm.



By the way, Fred is a wonderful man. The humanitarian projects he ran even then were huge internationally. I was so impressed that while there was no attraction either way, I still would have married that man just to watch him help thousands of people every day.


Gawd knows what he is doing now. He is the kind of guy that if he had access to enough money, he would simply by Haiti.

Perhaps he is working on it.

Reply by HKT_TX on 3/14/10 7:02pm
Msg #327224

Re: I hear you! I always have texting disabled on my phones

Laura, you should consider an Itouch instead of an Iphone. I just got one to replace my 8 year old palm pilot (my boys talked me into it). Of course I hated it at first, but once you get used to the difference in the programs, it is kinda neat! And, no monthly fees! You can get the Kindle app, and buy your ebooks that way, or there are numerous other programs. The only downside is it is wi-fi, it does not have internet access like the Iphone.

Reply by Laura_V on 3/14/10 7:14pm
Msg #327226

Sounds great!!!

Is it a Mac/Apple product? Other? Girls who google gotta know.

I'm googling and fantasizing about a Paris and Kracow trip next spring so why not throw an iTouch into the mix?

Thanks!

Reply by HKT_TX on 3/15/10 1:57pm
Msg #327354

Re: Sounds great!!!

Yes, it is an Apple product. It is called an Itouch, looks and works like an Iphone, but without the phone or camera. It really is a neat little gadget! I got it because I refuse to pay a $30 servicing contract per month, per phone, for the Iphone! I will keep my little razor phone, thank you very much!

Reply by HKT_TX on 3/15/10 2:02pm
Msg #327356

Re: Sounds great!!!

Also, Laura, I got my thru walmart.com, it was the cheapest place I found them. I got the 8g, it is plenty big enough for what I need it for. If you plan on keeping a lot of books on it, I don't know if you would need one with a bigger memory (have to ask one of the techies about that!) I know I put every CD I had in my car, and then some, on it and it didn't even put a dent in the memory!