I have decided that I think depictions of teen texting, IMs, DMs, etc in television and film should just be grammatically correct full sentences with no attempt at doing shortcut vernacular.
You can argue if this is realistic/outdated but why don’t we just treat it as one of those magical conceits of telefilm?…like everybody always being being staged in a perfect pose for the camera frame rather than realistically huddled around each other with their backs outward.
