[reitanqild]

Strongly disagree.

This is something you will hear from a lot of places, often from people who never were early adopters of neither mail, sms or skype etc.

[dasil003]

Yeah well that's not me... I've been on BBSes since 1988 and got my first proper internet shell account in 1991 when, incidentally, I was 13.

The reason I made the comment is because it rubbed me the wrong way to cite 13-year-old girl talk as prototypical gibberish. Are 13-year-old girls generally excitable and potentially annoying? Yes. Do they talk in gibberish as a matter of course? No, that's a thoughtless sexist trope.

And I'll place a blind bet that they text faster than you.

[reitanqild]

Agree that the girl part should have been left out.

Still think an average hn-er should be able to type faster and more correct on a normal keyboard than the average 13yo, regardless of gender.

[dasil003]

You're stacking the deck. Physical keyboards are ancient technology ;)