Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

When Dad Banned Text Messaging. "When I would see her, my ‘How was your day?' was not nearly as important as the dialogue she was having on her phone. Clearly she couldn't focus on the people she was physically with when she was constantly being pulled into a virtual conversation with someone else. When the phone bill listed more than 3,000 texts in one month, we told her it was time to chill out. Granted, we had unlimited messaging so it wasn't costing us any more. But does that make it O.K. to send an average of 100 messages a day via text? What could she possibly say in those sentence fragments and abbreviations that was so crucial? And what exactly was she talking about?"