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Mind your language

Ha! vs Hahaha: the surprisingly subtle world of Twitter style

Compression has encouraged wit

7 February 2015

9:00 AM

7 February 2015

9:00 AM

I don’t know if you tweet — No! Don’t turn over, I’m not going to get all techie. I do not tweet, but my husband does, voluminously. I won’t betray his rather strange handle and avatar. Those are technical terms, but they are not the main point I want to make now.

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