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.”

  • Barry O’Connell

    Someone please elaborate. It seems VERY obvious to me…

  • http://www.shopqwik.co.uk Mark

    Yeah, what are they going on about… He wants to see a movie!

  • http://invalid.name Dan Lane

    Having seen the new Transformers movie I can honestly say that Morgan is better off staying at home!

    But who the hell is Morgan Teuber and why are his SMS messages worthy of a news article? and what critics? do I count as a critic? I can be critical of things!…. will there be another article later on saying “Critics slam SMS Text News article branding it pointless and irrelevant”?

    Maybe I’m missing something! :)

  • http://phranticsnr.wordpress.com Daniel

    Actually, The Chaser is a spoof program here in Australia. They’re famous for their current-affairs motivated pranks. Check out the website for more info. They’re pretty funny.

    The full title of the show is “The Chaser’s War On Everything”.

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