What I Learned About Texting Today

Some things I learned from Thumbspeak, a literary review of texting in the New Yorker:

• “Thanx” was first used in 1936.
• The average English word has only five letters. The average Inuit word has fourteen.
• Ethiopian has three hundred and forty-five symbols.
• Three hundred and forty-five symbols do not fit on most keypads.
• It is okay to end an article in the New Yorker with a sex joke.