After about 1-2 mins or so, you hear your phone playing the silly song, alerting you that you have an incoming msg. You smile. There is a little bit of joy and satisfaction when someone replies to your sms fast. You open the sms from the friend.
It says..................... " k.."
'k'?.......hmm.... 'k'?.........'k'?!?!
No...no..no... You DON'T reply to a msg with a mere "k"!
It makes the sender feel that all the hard effort typing on that small keypad, and time spent on searching for the letters, to send you that sincere, hopeful msg, is unappreciated and that the you don't care much.
You can sometimes tell, how the sender is, just by how they reply and 'k' doesn't tell much. It's not even really the word for ok.. which is already short form for 'okay'. " k".. could also very well mean .. "kodok" or "keledek!" ... kaza wa kaza
Here is one of the unwritten rules about peradaban sms, according to mua:
If a person smses you with a one sentence question - it's ok to give a one word reply (word, mind you..). But if the person has taken the pains to write 2 full sentences.. the least you could do is to reply with 2 words, e.g. 'OK so-and-so!' If the person writes three sentences.. you could reply with a 3 word reply e.g. 'OK sure so-and-so!' For 4 sentences onwards.. it's ok, to give a sensible reply with at least 3-4 words at the minimum.
1 comment:
Dear Miss,
I don't know why you're so riled up with the word 'k'. It only meant 'Okay, I'll come and see your book.' These are different times we are living in, like Bob Dylan said, 'times they are a-changin.'
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