We say "txt me" instead. It's faster.

I know some people that text all the time, but I don't. I'd rather just speak to someone; it's what phones are for anyway.

Americans abbreviate everything in text messages. I was trying to be clever.

This should answer your question, Richard.

Give me a call..

I can't stand coke from a bottle/can, but from a fountain it's fine.

Anyway, around here, nobody calls it cola. You generally ask for a coke to get coke/pepsi.

We (at least in the NY area) refer to them as cells or cell phones. And we say text me if we want someone to text us.

I tend to text more than talk, because I hate talking to people and its quicker just to type out what I want to say than to call them, etc.

I nor most of the people I talk to do such a thing. It's prty rtrded tryn 2 undrstnd wht ppl r tryn 2 say lyke this bcuz they r 2 lzy 2 typ the extra 2 or 3 ltrs.

WTF!?! Coke?

Begone from my thread you off topic scalliwags! Where the hell is this ignore list?!?

In Britain, we usually say 'car'. I can't remember 'auto' being used, but here in NL, 'auto' is the Dutch word for 'car'.

I don't know about the Americans, but in nearly every continental European country, they say "SMS". Even in Malta which has a large English-speaking population, the English say "I will SMS you" instead of "I will text you".

[edit:]Oh and nonnus29, congratulations.

AE.

SMS you? Sounds dirty..

Where's the logic in that? Saying "SMS" requires more syllables than "text" (3:1), which requires more time to say.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9906026-7.html
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That was a bit old news. He got sacked. The reason was that a newspaper published some of the messages he had sent and the public opinion simply was against him.

I just came back from the interview, thought I'd tell you guys about how it went.

First off, I get there and the people doing the interview are 15 minutes late so that was not encouraging. I ended up talking to three guys at once for an hour in a tiny conference room. One was a 'director' and the other two were 'architects'.

First they asked me about the code I wrote, pointed out a couple of errors and said overall it was pretty good. Then they asked me what I thought of the test and I said it was 'pretty easy'. In response to that one of the architects (the Fat Man) went into detail about one of my errors. No problem, I was sure I had missed some things I said. We went on with the questioning and the topic of the test came up again and I mentioned how I was expecting a recursion question saying that's why I thought the test was easy.

"Easy?" the Fat Man says. Then he launches into another spiel criticizing the code I wrote for another 5 minutes.

I finally interrupted him and said "Listen, when I said the test was easy I didn't mean to offend you, I apologize." Fat Man was a bit taken back by this and said, "Overall it was pretty good otherwise you wouldn't be here." Okay, fine.

Then the Director says "Usually people are sweating when we criticize their code but you're not, why is that?" And I said something about how I wrote it on paper in an hour whereas in the workplace I'd have the compiler and some unit test to catch the errors the Fat Man pointed out. He seemed happy with that. What I wanted to tell him was "yeah, you'd be amazed how well I did if you knew how little C++ I've written in the past 3 years." But I kept my mouth shut.

For the rest of the hour the Fat Man seemed pretty aggressive. At one point the Director said I was a strong candidate for the position. I didn't get nervous or stressed out, I was mostly joking and laughing with the other two. But the Fat Man pissed me off. The point of an interview isn't to impress the candidate with your knowledge, which is what the Fat Man was basically doing.

So we'll see what happens next. I'm not feeling too positive about the getting the job.

Anyway congratulations for making it so far.

No kidding. I didn't realize if it was 'easy' I wouldn't have had any mistakes.