Forum abbreviations - I'm new to this!

[Capsid]

I've never quite understood the need to abbreviate on a forum, isn't it just being too lazy to type? It arose from texting where there was a need to keep the number of characters down. Now all it does it cause confusion. CMOF

[lynda66]

It arose from texting where there was a need to keep the number of characters down.

that'll be like my mum emailing then ... last year i got an email just saying ...... auntie died of heart attack

took me 3 emails and 2 texts to find out which auntie and when the funeral was ...... i had 12 .... she seems to think sending emails of more than one syllable costs more

[Hashette]

I'm glad I'm over 40 and only have to worry about speaking and writing one language properly.

Or put another way, I is only gonna talk one language, innit?

I'm sad enough to put apostrophes in my text messages

[lynda66]

I'm sad enough to put apostrophes in my text messages

i do that too

[Rocketron]

I've never quite understood the need to abbreviate on a forum, isn't it just being too lazy to type? It arose from texting where there was a need to keep the number of characters down. Now all it does it cause confusion. CMOF

Call Me Old Fashioned ?

[Hashette]

OFIF

(old fashioned is fab)

Just think if that catches on how many teenagers will be utterly bewildered but will pretend to look all-knowing, but we'll know better

[Capsid]

Call Me Old Fashioned ?

Correct!

[di]

I'm just trying to get over the fact that peeps ain't been sending meLots Of Love all this time!!!

[kilnburner10]

I asked my wife read aloud a text message which was from a female friend of mine whilst I was driving and it ended in LOL. She thought it was "lots of love" and would not be persuaded it was anything else, what a row that ensued

[Bephlam]

I'm glad I'm over 40 and only have to worry about speaking and writing one language properly.

Or put another way, I is only gonna talk one language, innit?

I'm sad enough to put apostrophes in my text messages

Me too!!! I always write in full, hence the reason the texts end up being 2 or 3 long!!

[Glutton4...]

I get text messages from a dyslexic friend - it always takes me a week to work out what she's written

[BrideXIII]

tl:dr

too long ,didn't read

[Alison]

We've had a thread about this before, most people were quite strong about which side of the fence they sat on and either felt it was perfectly OK to post "c u l&r" type messages as it was just a development of language or that it was downright lazy and excluded some of the forum members. I'm OK with a certain about of appreviation but if people use too many then it takes too long to understand the bloomin' message so I give up and read another post.

[Johnny Appleseed]

I'm OK with abbreviations in texts and on forums but

not in the office. We had a temp in for a few days and she included text abbreviations in her messages for people and in her memo's and letters.

She couldn't see what the problem was and blamed her school for not teaching her properly about office expectations.

[BrideXIII]

We've had a thread about this before, most people were quite strong about which side of the fence they sat on and either felt it was perfectly OK to post "c u l&r" type messages as it was just a development of language or that it was downright lazy and excluded some of the forum members. I'm OK with a certain about of appreviation but if people use too many then it takes too long to understand the bloomin' message so I give up and read another post.

I am with you on that, one of the forums i own has a strict rule, no text talk, spelling mistakes , typing errors, no problem, but text talk gets you a warning, then a ban.

even my kids are only allowed to use msn on the strict understanding they do NOT use text talk, and as I check their logs daily, they have found out i mean it, having had one or two week long bans for breaking the rule.