Artifact From A Time Before Auto-Correct, When Writing Was Something You Did On Paper

Who still has one of these in a drawer somewhere? Who still uses one?

Twitter Haiku

Twitter's 140-character limit (and to some extent text messaging) challenges us to say everything we mean in the fewest words possible without compromising meaning, and has spawned some fascinating linguistic constructs.

Which can really be fun for the hardcore Wordie.

For example, one of my writerly friends recently closed a Tweet with:

"Kthanxbai"