It was never needed in the past and ads no context that a simple exclamation point or bold letters could do if a person wants to add emphasis.

  • Kornblumenratte@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    The spelling “tho” was commonly used back at least in North American informal writing in the 1980s already, and was proposed as a shorthand brief already by Thomas Shelton in his 1626 Tachygraphy. Predating cell phones a bit.