Good topic Steve!

I'm going to jump out on a limb here and disagree a bit. I see this as an evolution of language and one (more) of several challenges to communication.

I think it's interesting to observe the inventiveness of people using a highly serial input device (phone keypad) to communicate.

As technical folk, we've made jokes for years about TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) - now it's gone mainstream. How cool.

:{> Andy