Works for me.

The second article makes it clear that this is specifically about mobile networks, so yes. It's a quintessential net neutrality issue. The user is already paying for the data.

I'm talking about a slightly higher level of conversation structure. The features you're describing are certainly significant in how they affect spoken language (modern French is very drastically different from written French, BTW; it's very weird), but are less likely to predominate in written text like Facebook posts. This is especially the case for other samples studied by the researchers, like comments left on CNN articles. Professionally-written text is just generally well-organized; concepts and events are introduced in an efficient manner, using consistent and correct word choice. Even if the sentence structure is more familiar, when people blunder through recounting an event, we have to do more work to reconstruct what they're saying. Professional writing is composed with the benefit of hindsight and more thoughtful analysis.

...however, the researchers believe that people are just natural gossips. With that in mind, it could easily be about the density of opinions and moods in the text that makes the snippets easier to remember; the emotions of the author provide another anchor to build an associative memory around.

Then shouldn't Orange have a contract with that 'other provider' to act as either (a) a customer or (b) a push-pull arrangement, like big top-tier American companies do?

Pretty much. Awkward, unpolished language sticks in your mind. In fact, a lot of memes are that way.

There's another force working on the opposite direction that favours casual banter written by others: published text is often heavily massaged to use idiomatic language that fits in familiar patterns. The lack of novelty in the writing and the lack of effort required to read it makes it stick out less. As a general rule, you'll remember things better when you spend more effort in understanding them.

Isn't there a free implementation of that in Emacs?

All programs should be exactly 100 lines long. No more, no less. If your program is fewer lines than that, you're using too high-level a language. If it's longer, you're using too low-level a language.

Granted, it takes a bit more imagination, but that happens too.

Queue is acceptable as a synonym for cue if there are many people waiting to make the same snide remark.

Carbon. He's going carbon.

OR: we switched to a case-insensitive universe while you weren't looking. Something something no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft.

LSD. Honestly, all this time I thought that was LSD talking.

Aha, but toughness / 5.4620008x10^17 = tensile strength. I know this because 5.4620008x10^17 is the total force of the bomb dropped at Hiroshima, divided by the area of a football field. Toughness thus joins the league of questionable made-for-TV units of measurement.

Dig hard enough and I'm sure you'll find equally arcane .NET setups. Remember, kids: the only difference between Java and .NET is that Java was paved with good intentions.

...maybe. Maybe. Thinking we're done here. Pleasure chattering with you. I like the sig.